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White smoke coming from the Sistine Chapel announces the election of a new pope
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Gandhi never won a Nobel Peace Prize
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New Zealand was once home to the giant moa, a flightless bird that could rise to a height of 12 feet and could weigh up to 600 pounds
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Fortune cookies were invented in the United States by a person who was born in Japan
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There are exactly zero documented cases of a child being poisoned by Halloween candy from trick-or-treating.
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Between 1996 and 2016, solar energy production in the U.S. increased by more than 36% per year, a total increase of over 50,000%
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The Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the Spruce Goose, is the largest aircraft ever to fly
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Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was an example of an "enlightened despot", a non-democratic leader who nevertheless works on behalf of the people
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Old Jonathan is the oldest known living animal. He is a Seychelles giant tortoise who is at least 186 years old.
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Coal mining and coal pollution have caused far more deaths than nuclear energy - even accounting for the people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Nearly 25% of women living in England in the year 1800 were named Mary
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38% of people in Vietnam have the family name Nguyễn
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Charleston is not the capital of South Carolina. It is, however, the capital of West Virginia
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Martin Van Buren was the only U.S. President whose first language was not English. He grew up speaking Dutch.
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Hanlon's razor states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
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Tigers in the Sundarbans region of India and Bangladesh have been known to hunt and kill humans
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The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666
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The catacombs of Paris hold the remains of over 6 million people
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Kowloon Walled City, a former settlement in Hong Kong, once housed 50,000 people in an area of less than 0.03 square kilometers
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CBGB, in New York City, is a music club whose name stands for "country, bluegrass, and blues". Ironically, it was punk music that made the club famous.
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