Monday 5 October 2015

Fact Hunters: Cannibals, rivers & statues

Razvan Gabreanu
Amazingly researchers suspect that as many as 1 in 8 pregnancies start out as multiples, but only a single fetus is brought to full term, because the other has died very early in the pregnancy and has not been detected or recorded.

Endocannibalism is a practice of eating the flesh of a human being from the same community (tribe, social group or society), usually after they have died. In Papua New Guinea they did it gain the intelligence from those who died!

Yemi Adedipe
The River Nile is the longest river in the world. It measures 6,695 kilometres from its source in Burundi, along the White Nile, to its delta on the Mediterranean Sea.

Maliat Bakreen
Did you know that the Golden Boy of Pye Corner is a small monument located on the corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane in Smithfield, central London. It marks the spot where the 1666 Great Fire of London was stopped.


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