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We don't mean to dissuade all of those whitewater rafter wannabes out there, but between 2006 and 2017, more than 500 people across the globe lost their lives while whitewater rafting. That doesn't count the hundreds of broken bones, thousands of close calls, and countless ruined family vacations because of it.

The More You Know

Before mating, the female giraffe will first urinate in the male's mouth.
Shakespeare is easier to understand, makes more sense, and is punnier when it's recited in its original pronunciation instead of a modern English accent.
Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
Roughly 600 Parisians work at the Eiffel Tower each day.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.