What’s most impressive is that Krebs didn’t only learn languages through his native German; he learned Burmese, and Irish through English and Finnish, Tatar, and Ukrainian through Russian, for example. Essentially, it seems as though his strategy was to learn languages via similar languages. Krebs was sent to Beijing as an aspirant interpreter.

While we may all sleep through Spanish class, there is no denying that Kreb’s accomplishment is remarkable. To this day, no one has been able to surpass or even reach his record.  In fact, when he died, his brain was preserved by the C. and O. Institute of Brain Research for being an ‘elite brain’ that’s worthy of study.

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The town tells stories of how the Ontario Dept. of Highways would erect new signs on the outskirts of town renaming it “Winston,” after Winston Churchill. The townspeople would sneak out and tear them down in the middle of the night and repost signs naming the town Swastika. The town is popular to tourists for gaming and camping adventurers.

However, what is interesting about these animals is how they use it in other aspects of daily life. When reaching for food at a tough angle or even just out of laziness, the elephant will purposefully erect their penis and use it as support. By doing this they maintain the stability they lose when reaching off balance.

Their penises are also used to swat annoying flies away from their sides when they can’t reach or are too busy. Also, when an elephant has an itch on their stomach they simply swing their penis around to scratch it!

The artificial sweetener in Diet Coke is hundreds of times sweeter per unit volume than regular sugar. However, the sugar in regular Coke is denser, which makes it sink. Regular Coke contains almost 11 teaspoons of sugar per can! On average, Americans ingest 10.8 pounds of sugar per person each year from drinking Coca-Cola alone.

Here are some other interesting facts about Coca-Cola products:

• The Coca-Cola brand is worth more than Budweiser, Pepsi, Starbucks and Redbull combined
• If every drop of Coke ever produced were put into 8 ounce bottles and laid end to end, they’d reach the moon and back over 2,000 times
• Coca-Cola spends more money on advertising than Microsoft and Apple combined
• The average Mexican drinks more Coke than the average American, British, Indian, and Chinese combined

He had studied pre-med during his undergraduate, but didn’t enter medical school, which made him subject to the military draft. In 1989 on the late-late Pat Sajak Show, he shared how he convinced his draft board that he deserved a 4-F Classification. He based it on falsely claiming, amongs other things, that he had homosexual tendencies…

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It can be safely consumed by humans, however, if we were to eat enough we have an extremely likely chance of being poisoned While dogs are the most common victims of chocolate poisoning, reports of the elderly being sent to the emergency room for eating too much chocolate because their digestive system can’t handle the theobromine anymore are relatively common! Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, internal bleeding, heart attacks and eventually…death!

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• The term rule of thumb comes from the old English law that men couldn’t beat their wives with anything wider than their thumb.

• Less than one percent of people who entered Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camp survived, after being liberated by the Russians in 1945.

• A monkey’s skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as a soccer ball in the very first World’s Cup Soccer Championships in Uruguay.

• Ants never sleep in their wholelife.

• A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.

• Elvis Presley’s hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.

• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

• A man was arrested and charged with the robbery—of vending machines. The man posted bail, entirely in quarters.

• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.