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# [[Media:Fact core fact11.wav|Raseph, the Semitic god of war and plague, had a gazelle growing out of his forehead.]] ''The gazelle was part of a headdress and did not grow out of his head.''
# [[Media:Fact core fact11.wav|Raseph, the Semitic god of war and plague, had a gazelle growing out of his forehead.]] ''The gazelle was part of a headdress and did not grow out of his head.''
# [[Media:Fact core fact16.wav|Human tapeworms can grow up to twenty-two point nine meters.]] ''Some tapeworms can grow that long, but not the sort that infest humans.''
# [[Media:Fact core fact16.wav|Human tapeworms can grow up to twenty-two point nine meters.]] ''Some tapeworms can grow that long, but not the sort that infest humans.''
# [[Media:Fact core fact26.wav|If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.]] ''While the mnemonic device itself is correct, it is very unlikely to enable a person to count.''
# [[Media:Fact core fact26.wav|If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.]] ''While the mnemonic device itself is correct, it is very unlikely for a person to count.''
# [[Media:Fact core fact59.wav|The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty.]] ''Adult humans in hunter-gatherer cultures are almost always lactose-intolerant; lactose-tolerance in adulthood has developed over time among people in agricultural societies where drinking milk is common (lactose-intolerance is common in Asians, whose agricultural societies never drank milk).''
# [[Media:Fact core fact59.wav|The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty.]] ''Adult humans in hunter-gatherer cultures are almost always lactose-intolerant; lactose-tolerance in adulthood has developed over time among people in agricultural societies where drinking milk is common (lactose-intolerance is common in Asians, whose agricultural societies never drank milk).''
# [[Media:Fact core fact36.wav|Roman toothpaste was made with human urine. Urine as an ingredient in toothpaste continued to be used up until the 18th century.]] ''Urine has never been used as a toothpaste ingredient, but it was used as an ingredient in detergents and disinfectants from Roman times up until the 19th century.''
# [[Media:Fact core fact36.wav|Roman toothpaste was made with human urine. Urine as an ingredient in toothpaste continued to be used up until the 18th century.]] ''Urine has never been used as a toothpaste ingredient, but it was used as an ingredient in detergents and disinfectants from Roman times up until the 19th century.''