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They are *not* enchiladas.

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If anyone needed a reason to lie silently in bed with their eyes open, consider “the heat death of the universe” or “Victorian Brits ate all the mummies” as decent insomnia fodder. The universe we live in is plagued with injustice, cruelty and gross realities, but hey, some of them are kind of cool to know. So here's some stuff to alienate your family at dinner. Here are some more freaky facts to feel weird about.

I was today years old when I learned that broccoli is actually cauliflower that's been dyed green. Okay, not true. But broccoli is totally man made. Look it up. Have you ever seen broccoli growing in the wild? You haven't, because it was originally a natural cabbage plant that humans used to cultivate a more palatable version, which we call broccoli today. The internet is full of factoids like this—some weird, some fascinating, and some pretty hard to believe. We've collected a bunch of crazy th

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Everyone has a prized fact.

They say what you don't know can't hurt you, but we've all been hit in the face with enough frisbees to know that's demonstrably false. That said, what you do know can leave you with a creeping sense of existential dread and a lasting mark on your psyche. Because man, we live in a vastly unexplored and wildly unpredictable world full of flesh-eating wiener parasites and damning statistics about reading comprehension. Here are some strange science facts to ponder .

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If there's one thing knowing facts about our world helps us with, it's having a better understanding of the context we find ourselves living in. Knowing that lemons haven't always been, or that there are sharks older than the United States can help us better comprehend our own place in this weird and wacky world. For more of this junk, here are strange science facts to ponder.

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