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🐧 Female penguins sometimes engage in prostitution; performing sex acts in exchange for pebbles. However, sometimes the female penguin will just trick the male into THINKING they'll have sex, then run off once she gets the pebble. 🔔@Everything_Science

Leather from Human Skin The Pure Human project uses recent developements in tissue engineering, in which scientists are able to grow human skin in a laboratory. Genetic material is extracted and placed in a cell culture, then the cells are harvested and skin tissue is tanned and processed into leather. 🔔@Everything_Science

Dogs will sometimes fake being sick to get attention. 🔔@Everything_Science

India has become only the fourth country to ever land on the moon along with the US, China and Russia. 🔔@Everything_Science

In 2007, while on death row for killing a police officer in 1982, a Tennessee man named Philip Workman requested that instead of a last meal, a pizza be donated to a local homeless person. His final request was denied. On May 9, 2007, homeless shelters across Tennessee received massive numbers of pizzas of various toppings from people all over the country honoring Workman's last meal request. 🔔@Everything_Science

Iceland has such a small population that they have an anti-incest app so you don’t end up hooking up with a family member on a night out. 🔔@Everything_Science

In 1962, Bruce lee landed 15 punches, a kick and knocked out his opponent in a fight that lasted only 11 seconds. 🔔@Everything_Science

In 2011 a women killed, cut up and cooked her husband into a korma curry to stop him from sexually abusing his stepdaughter. She told police she sedated her husband by mixing sleeping pills in his tea and strangled him with rope before dismembering him. 🔔@Everything_Science

Astronauts urine is recycled into drinking water while they're in space. 🔔@Everything_Science

When Tatanysha Hedman discovered that her husband, Vincent Phillips, abused their daughter, she took matters into her own hands and set him on fire. The 40-year-old mother waited for her husband to fall asleep, then she poured kerosene on him and lit a match. She later admitted to police that she intentionally set him on fire because shooting him would have been "too nice”. 🔔@Everything_Science

CCTV image of Shaniya Davis being carried by her killer after her mother traded her to settle a $200 debt. 🔔@Everything_Science

Kanbari nyūdō is a Japanese spirit that lurks around toilets on New Year’s Eve and tries to lick you. 🔔@Everything_Science