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12938% of people in Vietnam have the family name {Nguyễn}.
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178About 25% of people born in {Ireland} in the 1800s emigrated to the United States.
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176According to legend, the city of Lisbon was founded by the Greek hero {Ulysses}.
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307After the 1986 {Chernobyl} disaster, authorities placed a 30 kilometer exclusion zone around the former power plant.
The results have been surprising. Wildlife is thriving within the exclusion zone - in effect creating one of Europe's
largest wildlife preserves. Animals living in the exclusion zone suffer no discernible harm from the radiation,
and benefit greatly from the near lack of human presence.
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161An 18 inch pizza is {four} times as large as a 9 inch pizza.
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100{André} the Giant was a legendary drinker who was supposedly able to down as many as 156 beers in a single session.
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196A {queen} bee has the same DNA as a worker bee. She becomes a {queen} by
being fed large amounts of a substance known as "royal jelly" in the larval stage.
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222A single {tiger} killed over 400 people in India and Nepal in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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135Charleston is not the capital of South Carolina. It is, however, the capital of {West} {Virginia}.
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221{Cows} kill more people than sharks.
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169Don't worry. If the United States and Russia have a nuclear war, it won't kill the entire human race.
The concept of {nuclear} {winter} is almost certainly flawed science.
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130During the First World War, the Emperor of Germany, the King of England, and the
Empress of Russia were all first cousins - grandchildren of {Queen} {Victoria}.
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327Every U.S. state except one has recorded a temperature of at least 100° F. The one exception? {Hawaii}.
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285{Greenland} sharks are thought to be the longest-lived of any
vertebrate species with an estimated life span of 300-500 years.
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192Had {Babe} {Ruth} played in modern stadiums by modern rules, he would have been even more dominant.
According to one researcher, he would have hit an incredible 104 home runs in 1921 and over 1000 for his career.
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240If you are in the United States, it is virtually impossible to get trichinosis from
eating undercooked {pork}. Feel free to enjoy it medium rare.
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109In 2017, {Jeff} {Bezos} became the first person in history to have a net worth of more than $100 billion.
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64In Arthurian legend it is unclear whether {Excalibur} is the same as the Sword in the Stone. In some stories, they are.
In others, {Excalibur} is given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake after he had already become king.
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57In the book "Nineteen Eighty-Four", the {British} {Isles} are a region known as "Airstrip One".
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26In the United Kingdom, {Fat} Tuesday is known as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day.
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274In the year 1913, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, and Freud all lived in the city of {Vienna}.
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35In the year 874 AD, Ingólfr Arnarson became the first person to
permanently settle on the island of {Iceland} - at least according to the traditional story.
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177Ireland still has a lower population today than it did in the 1800s before the Irish {Potato} {Famine}.
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44{John} {D.} {Rockefeller} was the first person to have a net worth in excess of $1 billion U.S. dollars.
His company, Standard Oil, had a monopoly on the U.S. oil industry.
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121Large dog breeds generally have short life spans. Irish Wolfhounds and {Great} {Danes}
are two of the shortest-lived dog breeds, with a life expectancy of about seven years.
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195Male bees are known as {drones}. They don't have stingers and don't collect nectar. Their main purpose
is to mate with a queen bee. However, if one succeeds in mating, he dies quickly afterward after losing his, uh, parts.
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355Many people believe that, in the early United States, only {white} {male} landowners over the age of 21 could vote.
But the Constitution said nothing of the sort. Voter eligibility was left up to the states. African-Americans and women
were eligible to vote in many states prior to the Constitutional amendments that gave them the vote universally.
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13{Marie} {Curie} was both the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person of any gender to win twice
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137Martin Van Buren was the only U.S. president whos first language was not English. He grew up speaking {Dutch}.
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299NBA teams have been a great investment for NBA owners. In 2014, Donald Sterling sold the
{Los} {Angeles} {Clippers} for $2 billion. He purchased the team for just $12.5 million in 1981.
That means the value of the team appreciated at over 24% per year.
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32{New} {Zealand} was completely uninhabited by people until around 1250 AD.
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33New 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. It was driven to extinction shortly after the first people arrived in New Zealand.
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353Nowhere in the nursery rhyme does it ever say that Humpty Dumpty was an {egg}.
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94Only about 3% of the soldiers who died in the Vietnam War were {American}.
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333{Peter} {the} {Great} of Russia was extremely tall. At 6'8'' (203 cm) in height, he would
have been more than a foot taller than the average man of the time.
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51Pink Floyd's "{The} {Dark} {Side} {of} {the} {Moon}" was one of the top 200
best-selling albums in the United States for 741 straight weeks, over 14 years.
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289Polydactyl cats have more than 5 toes on each paw. Ernest Hemingway kept
polydactyl cats whose descendants now live in his former home on {Key} {West}.
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302Since tracking began in 2005, only three Major League home runs have been measured at over 500 feet in distance.
But that distance was easily exceeded by {Babe} {Ruth} many times in his career. Why was {Babe} {Ruth} able
to hit so much harder than current players? Perhaps it was a difference in equipment.
Or maybe {Babe} {Ruth} was simply stronger than current players.
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81Technically speaking, the {Sahara} is not the world's largest desert. The Arctic and Antarctic deserts are larger.
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175The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally designed to serve as a mooring mast for
{zeppelins} and other airships. Unfortunately, high winds made it impossible to use for this purpose.
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156The canary bird is named after the Canary Islands. The name of the islands
comes from the Latin "Canariae Insulae", which means "Island of the {Dogs}".
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158The {catacombs} of Paris hold the remains of over 6 million people.
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157The color {orange} was not used in the English language until 1512.
And in case you're wondering, the color was named after the fruit.
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8The {colossal} {squid} has the largest eyes of any animal.
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21The Greek island of Santorini was devastated by a huge volcanic eruption around 1600 BC.
Some people think that this event inspired the myth of {Atlantis}.
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70The {Jean}-{Claude} {Van} {Damme} movie "Bloodsport" claims to be based on a true story about a
deadly martial arts tournament called the "Kumite". In reality, it was completely made up.
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108The plural of the word octopus is {octopuses}, not octopi.
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55There are exactly {zero} documented cases of a child being poisoned by Halloween candy from trick-or-treating.
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277The Secret Service that protects the U.S. President used to be part of the Department of the {Treasury}.
Their original mission was to stop the spread of counterfeit money, a function which they still serve today.
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28"The Shawshank Redemption" is based on a story by {Stephen} {King}.
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152The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is {666}.
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236The Venus {flytrap} is not a tropical plant. It is native to coastal regions of North and South Carolina.
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189The word "{thug}" is derived from the Hindi word "thuggee". The Thuggees were gangs of robbers in India who
strangled and killed unsuspecting travelers in service to the goddess Kali.
However, some modern scholars dispute whether Thuggees really existed.
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304"{Tsar} {Bomba}" was the most powerful weapon ever detonated. A hydrogen bomb tested by the Soviets in 1961,
it had the power of 50 million tons of TNT. This was over 3000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima,
and forty times as powerful as the nuclear weapons in the current U.S. arsenal.
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54Velociraptors had {feathers}.
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206When people get a {kidney} transplant, the original {kidney} is not generally removed,
leaving the recipient with three (or four) {kidneys}.
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88White smoke coming from the Sistine Chapel announces the election of a new {pope}.
Black smoke indicates that a new {pope} has not yet been chosen.
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181Due to generations of inbreeding, the parents of King Charles II of {Spain} were more closely related than siblings.
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315Middle names weren't always common in the United States. Only {three} of the
eighteen Presidents that served prior to 1868 had middle names.
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78Some people have claimed that the CIA plotted to assassinate {Fidel} {Castro} using an exploding cigar.
However, there is no evidence that this was ever seriously proposed.
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167About 10 million slaves were brought from Africa to the New World. The vast majority
went to {Brazil} and the Caribbean. Only about 6% ended up in what is now the United States.
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183About 50% of the world's gold was mined in {South} {Africa}.
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253A handful of people have fallen out of a plane without a {parachute} and survived.
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117Between 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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105Despite being near the shore of Africa, Madagascar was originally settled
by people from the island of {Borneo}, over 7000 kilometers away.
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76{Hawaii} is the only U.S. state that produces coffee commercially.
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237In the Middle Ages, some people believed that narwhal tusks came from {unicorns}.
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216Lemons float, but {limes} sink.
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128Nearly 25% of women living in England in the year 1800 were named {Mary}.
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218Once upon a time, British sailors received a ration of half an imperial pint of {rum} daily.
This is the equivalent of about two bottles of wine. Sadly for sailors,
the ration was halved in 1823 and halved again in 1850 before being completely eliminated in 1970.
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127Queen Elizabeth I was known as the Virgin Queen. It is likely that the U.S. state of {Virginia} was named in her honor.
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82The {Sahara} has historically alternated between grassland and desert on a 41,000 year cycle.
Barring human-driven climate change, it is expected to become green again in around 15,000 years.
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201{Wheels} might seem like an obvious invention, but they weren't invented until around 3000-4000 B.C.
In fact, many relatively advanced cultures never used {wheels} at all.
Neither the Aztecs, the Mayans, nor the Incas employed {wheels} for transportation.
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155According to some estimates, up to 90% of the adult male population of {Paraguay}
was killed during the {Paraguay}an War, fought between 1864 and 1870.
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204Ancient Greek athletes held light {weights} in their hands when doing the long jump. This allowed them
to more effectively use the momentum of their arms, adding distance to their jumps.
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139Betteridge's law of headlines states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word {no}"
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163CBGB, 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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98China had a monopoly on the production of {silk} until the 6th century, when
Christian monks smuggled {silk}worms out of China and into the Byzantine Empire.
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275{Corn} {flakes} were originally designed by Dr. Kellogg as part of a bland vegetarian diet meant to reduce sexual desire.
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132Despite being one of history's greatest scientific minds,
{Isaac} {Newton} spent a large percentage of his time studying alchemy.
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318Dr. Henry {Heimlich}, inventor of the "{Heimlich} maneuver", never used his own technique until very late in life.
Atr age 96, he employed the maneuver to save a woman in his nursing home from choking.
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120Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name was {Roosevelt}. She was distantly related to her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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60{Eton} Blue is a greenish-blue color worn by sporting teams from {Eton} College, a famous English boarding school.
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268Flammable and {inflammable} mean the same thing.
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358{Flying} is extremely safe. In the entire world, just 44 people died from commercial aviation accidents in the year 2017.
The fatality rate per passenger is more than 99% lower than it was in the 1970s.
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323Four elements are named after the tiny village of Ytterby, {Sweden}. They are yttrium, ytterbium, erbium, and terbium.
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226France's longest land border is with {Brazil}.
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140Hanlon's {razor} states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
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30In the Bible, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but he didn't live there. He was raised in the town of {Nazareth}.
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27In the earliest comics, {Superman} couldn't fly. This explains why his ability to
"to leap tall buildings in a single bound" wasn't completely redundant.
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138In the United States, there is no correlation between the number of guns in a state and that state's murder rate.
There is, however, a strong correlation between the number of guns and the {suicide} {rate}.
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165In the year 828, the city of {Venice} stole the purported remains of Saint Mark from Alexandria.
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6{Jimi} {Hendrix} was rated the #1 guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
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260Just one deathcap {mushroom} has enough toxin to kill an adult human. Unfortunately, when you eat one
you won't feel ill for several hours. By the times symptoms manifest, severe organ damage
have already taken place. They are supposedly delicious.
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159Kowloon 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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352{Live} {Aid} was a pair of concerts held in London and New York in 1985 to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief.
Unfortunately, much of the money raised by the concerts ended up in the hands of the brutal communist regime
that had caused the crisis in the first place. Some of the money was used to buy weapons.
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17People from Moscow are known as {Muscovites}.
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351People used to be bad at running the {marathon}. The gold medalist at the 1948 Olympics won with a time of
2:34:51, a time regularly bested by modern high school athletes.
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335Sgt. Henry Gunther was an American soldier who was the last person to be killed in action during WWI, just one minute
before the {armistice} began. Disobeying orders, he charged with his rifle and bayonet at a German post. The Germans,
knowing that the cease fire would begin soon, tried to wave him away. But Gunther continued charging and
let loose a shot or two with his rifle. He was killed instantly by German machine gun fire.
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225Some people have noticed that Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping has a resemblance to the beloved
cartoon bear {Winnie} {the} {Pooh}. The result? {Winnie} {the} {Pooh} is now censored in China.
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164The American politicain {John} {McCain} was outlived by his mother.
She was 106 years old at the time of his death in 2018.
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7The {colossal} squid is thought to be even larger than the giant squid.
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66The Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the {Spruce} {Goose}, is the largest aircraft ever to fly. Due to wartime restrictions
on the use of metal, it was made of wood. But despite its name, it was made mostly of birch, not spruce.
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261There are an estimated 3.04 trillion {trees} on Earth. (Slightly more thanks to JetPunk users like you!)
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209There are currently more people living in the metro area of Orlando, Florida
then there were in the entire country of {England} during the reign of Henry VIII.
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324The U.S. governments owns 79.6% of the land in the state of {Nevada}.
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136The U.S. state of {Maine} was a part of Massachusetts before becoming its own state in 1820.
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115The village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, in {Wales}, lengthened its name to Llanfair-
pwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch for promotional purposes in the 1860s.
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170The word {gymnasium} comes from the Greek word γυμνός meaning "nude".
Greek athletes often did not wear clothes where they were training.
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53The year 1900 was not a leap year. Years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by {400}.
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150Tigers in the Sundarbans region of India and {Bangladesh} have been known to hunt and kill humans.
Until recently, it is estimated that these tigers got 3% of their calories from eating humans.
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3348,000 years ago was a bad time to be a single man. By looking at the DNA of people living today, we can infer
what percentage of men and women successfully reproduced. And 8,000 years ago, there were 17 women who
reproduced for every man who did so. How is this possible? {Polygamy}.
Some men had many wives while most men had none.
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19Angelina Jolie is the daughter of actor {Jon} {Voight}.
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18Believe it or not, {Maine} is the U.S. state that is geographically closest to Africa.
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160Cunningham's law states that the best way to get the right answer on the internet
is not to ask a question; it's to post the {wrong} {answer}.
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278From the Middle Ages until the Industrial Revolution, England experienced a "survival of the {richest}".
Wealthier families had more surviving than poor families. Over time, the upper classes
gradually replaced the lower ones. If your ancestors were born in England, it's likely that
most of your DNA comes from people who were wealthy in the year 1200.
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242If you don't have {kids} you will break an unbroken line of
successful reproduction that goes back billions of years. No pressure.
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270Inhaling {helium} can make your voice sound high. But there is a gas that does the opposite and makes
your voice sound lower - sulfur hexafluoride. It is potentially dangerous so don't try it at home.
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75J. Edgar Hoover was just 29 years old when he was appointed to be
head of the Bureau of Investigation, the predecessor to the {FBI}.
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281{Red}-{green} color blindness affects up to 8% of men but only 0.5 % of women.
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308The California {condor} ceased to exist in the wild in 1987 when all 27 remaining {condors} were captured for
the purpose of saving the species. The intervention worked. After a few years of captive breeding, {condors} were
re-released into the wild. Today the total population is over 500 and growing quickly.
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22The {English} {Channel} is known to the French as La Manche. Translation: "The Sleeve".
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339The world's oldest, tallest, and heaviest trees can all be found in {California}.
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200Thomas Midgley Jr. was brilliant but star-crossed inventor. He invented leaded gasoline to prevent engines from knocking.
Unfortunately, it lowered IQs of people exposed to it. He also invented Freon as a non-toxic refrigerant. Unfortunately,
it destroyed the ozone layer. Late in life, he contracted polio and devised a system of
ropes and levers to pull him out of bed. This backfired as well, causing his death by {strangulation}.
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166According to the Global Slavery Index, there are 18 million people living in slavery in {India}.
This is four times greater than the number of slaves in the United States at the peak of American slavery.
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330Humans aren't the only organisms to change the climate. It first happened about 2.4 billion years ago when
photosynthesizing microbes evolved. They changed the Earth's atmosphere by sucking up carbon dioxide
and emitting oxygen. The changes were so extreme that the entire Earth became covered in ice.
The {equator} was colder than Antarctica is today. This phenomenon is known as "Snowball Earth".
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283Mantis {shrimp} have a "punch" that is so powerful it can break aquarium glass.
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14The city of Paris is not named after the figure from Greek mythology.
Instead, it is named for an ancient {Celtic} tribe called the Parisii.
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49250 million years ago, most of the Earth's land mass was on one giant continent - {Pangaea}.
Scientists believe that this giant land mass created extreme weather conditions.
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18768% of boys born in the Soviet Union in 1923 would not survive to 1946, due to infant mortality, famine, and {WWII}.
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25799% of children in Tanzania are vaccinated against measles, but only 89% of {Canadian} children are.
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207About 14% of people are born without the palmaris longus {tendon} in their forearm. As the {tendon} does not serve
a purpose in humans, it is often used if a patients needs a {tendon} graft in another part of their body.
Go here to see if you have them (After you've done the quiz)
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99According to playwright Anton Chekov, if a {gun} is introduced into a story, it must be fired at some point in the story.
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52According to some people, Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" was written as
an alternate soundtrack to the movie "{The} {Wizard} {of} {Oz}". The band denies it.
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259According to the latest estimates, there are slightly more {bacteria} cells in your body than human cells.
However, because human cells are much larger, all the {bacteria} only weighs 0.2 kilograms.
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122A {Great} {Dane} named Zeus holds the record as the world's tallest dog, measuring 3 feet 8 inches
from foot to shoulder. When standing in his hind legs, he measured over 7 feet tall.
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72A groups of owls are called a {parliament}.
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20Alaska's "Little Diomede" island is just 2.3 miles from Russia's "{Big} {Diomede}" island.
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85All people of European or Asian descent have some {Neanderthal} DNA.
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337{Aluminium} is the most common metal in the Earth's crust. But {aluminium} used to be very difficult to extract
from {aluminium} ore. This made it extremely expensive. In the mid-1800s, ingots of {aluminium} sold for
$550 a pound - about twice the price of gold.
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246{Ambergris} is a waxy substance produced in the digestive system of sperm whales.
Despite having a "fecal, marine" odor it is highly valued for the production of fragrances.
A 1.1 kilogram lump, washed ashore in Wales, fetched £11,000 at auction in 2015.
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342Antonio López de Santa Anna served {twelve} non-consecutive terms as
President of Mexico. Grover Cleveland eat your heart out.
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97A {palindrome} is a word or phrase that is spelled the same forward or backwards.
For example: "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama".
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190A "{rat} {king}" is a group of rats whose tails have been stuck together.
This rare phenomenon can also happen with mice and squirrels.
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45{Arsenic} trioxide was sometimes known as "inheritance powder" because of its
common use as a poison. Rates of poisoning decreased after the invention of the
Marsh Test in 1836 which made it possible to detect {Arsenic} in human remains.
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317As part of the Apollo project, astronauts placed mirror-like "retro{reflectors}" on the moon. Using these {reflectors},
we can bounce lasers off the moon and accurately measure the distance
from Earth to Moon by timing how long it takes the light to return.
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224A standard 185 gram {frisbee} can hold over three pints of beer.
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162At {122} years of age, Jeanne Calment was by far the oldest person to have ever lived. Or was she? There are
credible allegations that she stole the identity of her deceased mother to avoid paying estate taxes.
Given that she lived more than 3 years longer than the next oldest person, this seems to be a definite possibility.
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124A Tibetan {Mastiff} was reportedly sold in China for over £1 million in 2011, making it the world's most expensive
breed of dog. However, prices have fallen by huge amounts since then due to over-breeding.
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84A "{zephyr}" is a light wind from the west.
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288Before Fritz Haber figured out how to fix nitrogen directly from the atmosphere, the world was running out of {fertilizer}.
If his discovery had never been made, the world population would be much, much lower today.
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297Between 1908 and 1940, it was possible to buy a {house} in the Sears Catalog. The materials needed for
building the {house} would be delivered, with assembly required on site. Over 70,000 {homes} were built this way.
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123Bluey, an {Australian} {Cattle} Dog, was the oldest dog
whose age has been verified. It reached an age of 29 years, 5 months.
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331"{Blue} {zones}" are areas with a larger number of people who live to age 100 or older.
Many people have written about the supposed healthy lifestyle of these areas. But new research has shown that
these {blue} {zones} aren't real. They actually have lower life expectancy, as well as lower incomes and higher crime.
All those people living to 100? It's most likely bad record-keeping and pension fraud.
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212Bob Marley's father was {white}.
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119British author Evelyn {Waugh} was married to a woman whose name was also Evelyn.
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263Cabbage, broccoli, brussels {sprouts}, kale, and collard greens are all
different cultivars of the same species, Brassica oleracea.
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63Canada's {Justin} {Bieber} is allowed to reside in the United States because he has an O-1 visa, given to
"individuals with an extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry".
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227Canada's maple leaf flag was not introduced until 1965. Before then, its official flag was the flag of the
United Kingdom and its de-facto flag was the Canadian {Red} {Ensign}.
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322{Cartagena}, Colombia is a colony of a colony of a colony. It was founded by people from Cartagena, Spain
which was founded by people from Carthage which was founded by people from Tyre in modern-day Lebanon.
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48{Ceres} is the largest asteroid in the solar system. For fifty years, it was considered to be the eighth planet.
Today, it is one of the five known dwarf planets in the Solar System, along with Pluto, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea.
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295Certain tribes in the Amazon used to collect the {shrunken} heads of their defeated enemies.
In the early 1900s, Western collectors started buying the heads. This caused an increase in
murders as "headhunters" killed people and {shrunk} their heads to make money.
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329{China} exports three times as much to the United States as it imports. In 2019, the total difference was over $320 billion.
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266{China} only has one time zone. This means that the sun can rise 3 hours earlier
in the eastern part of the country than in the west.
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116{Coal} mining and {coal} production have caused far more deaths than nuclear energy -
even accounting for the people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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146{Coney} Island, in New York City, is no longer an island.
The water separating it from the mainland was filled in, making it a peninsula.
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114Cook Monument marks the spot where the famous British explorer
James Cook was killed by native Hawaiians. Today, it is a popular {snorkeling} location.
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193"{Coolth}" is a word. It means the opposite of warmth.
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220{Cow} {tipping} is a purported activity where a person topples a cow that is sleeping standing up. It is considered a myth.
For one, cows generally sleep lying down. Secondly, the force required to tip a cow would require at least four people.
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349Crimini mushrooms and {portabello} mushrooms are the same.
They are generally sold as {portabellos} when above a certain size.
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348{Cyprus} is 105 kilometers from Asia, 350 kilometers from Africa, and 760 kilometers from Europe.
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198Depending on how you look at it, Canada became an independent country in 1867, 1931, 1982, or {never!}
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80Despite being an entire continent, Antarctic was one of the last places on Earth to be discovered by humans.
It was first sighted by a {Russian} expedition in 1820.
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319Developed by Germany during WWII, the {V}-{2} rocket was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
It was ruinously expensive and largely pointless. In fact, more people died building {V}-{2} rockets than died
when the bombs exploded over their targets in Allied countries.
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294Don't trust low numbers in poll data. A certain percent of people will give a nonsensical response to polls just for fun.
This phenomenon has been called "{Lizard}man's Constant", so called because one poll suggested that
4% of Americans believe that the U.S. government is secretly run by {lizard} people.
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182Due to inbreeding, {hemophilia} was common among the royal lines of Europe.
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354"Dunbar's Number" is the theoretical number of people with which you can have an active social {relationship}.
It is estimated to be between 100 and 250 people. Societies that exceed this limit
are often said to have issues with social trust and cohesion.
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301During his early career, Babe Ruth swung bats weighing anwyhere from 40 ounces to
54 ounces in weight, much heavier than the typical {33} ounce bat used today
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191During {Prohibition} in the United States, criminals bought industrial alcohol and repurposed it for human consumption.
To prevent this, the government encouraged companies to add poisonous methanol (wood alcohol) to industrial alcohol.
Unfortunately, this didn't entirely prevent its consumption. It did, however, kill many of the people who
drank it. As many as 10,000 people might have died as a result
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61During the American Civil War, 168,649 men were drafted by the {Northern} states.
However, nearly 70% of the men that were drafted hired substitutes to fight in their place.
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148During the {French} {Revolution}, the government of France instituted a new calendar and time system.
All the months were renamed, a week had 10 days, a day had 10 hours, an hour had 100 minutes, and
each minute had 100 seconds. The changes didn't stick.
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305During the most recent Ice Age, the continent of Eurasia was dominated by the "Mammoth {steppe}".
This huge grassland, teeming with bison, horse, and wooly mammoths, stretched from Spain to China.
Most of the {steppe} abruptly disappeared around 12,000 years ago, possibly caused
when humans killed the animals whose grazing prevented forests from growing.
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219During WWI, French soldiers were issued a wine ration called a {pinard}.
At its highest level, it could amount to one bottle of wine per day.
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320During WWII, Allied soldiers built airplane runways on remote islands in Oceania. These runways were used to land
valuable supplies for the war effort. Native people on these islands observed this correlation and built runways of the own,
hoping that supply-laden planes would land there. This phenomenon is known as a “{cargo} {cult}".
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56During WWII, Japan built 14 {aircraft} {carriers}. The United States built 91.
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210During WWII, Japan launched over 9000 {balloons} with incendiary bombs attached to them. They hoped that
the bombs would cross the Pacific to the United States, start massive forest fires, and sow panic. The project was
a colossal failure. However, in 1945, one {balloon} did kill six picnickers in Oregon.
Those six people were the only deaths caused by enemy action in the continental U.S. during WWII.
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34Elephant birds from {Madagascar} weighed up to 1,000 pounds, with eggs weighing as much as 22 pounds.
They were driven to extinction by humans before 1700 AD.
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23Europeans brought many diseases to the New World. But they may have brought one back.
The earliest recorded European outbreaks of {syphilis} happened shortly after Columbus returned from his first voyage
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273Everything we know about {Socrates} comes to us secondhand. He didn't write down
any of his teachings, and neither did any of his students until after his death.
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133Every U.S. state has increased in population since 1960 with one exception - {West} {Virginia}.
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50Extreme global warming or an asteroid impact could lead to huge, immensely powerful
hurricanes called {hypercanes} with wind speeds of 500 mph.
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256Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä killed about 500 Russians during the {Winter} {War} of 1939-40.
He didn't use a scope as he didn't want sunlight to reflect off the lens and reveal his position.
He put snow in his mouth so no one could see his breath. His nickname: The White Death.
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267For a long time, {Frank} {Beard} was the only member of ZZ Top that
didn't have a beard. But he finally relented and grew one in 2013.
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10{Fortune} {cookies} were invented in the United States by a person who was born in Japan.
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77Frederick 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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356Freshwater {snails} are one of the deadliest creatures on the planet. They spread a parasitic flowworm that
infects tens of millions of people every year and kills about 10,000.
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103From 2000-2016, the country with the most Summer Olympics medals per capita was the {Bahamas},
with over 28 medals per 1 million residents. All of the medals were earned in sprinting or jumping events.
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2Gandhi never won the {Nobel} {Peace} {Prize}. (But Yasser Arafat did).
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174Gigantopithecus blacki was a prehistoric species of ape found in Asia that grew up to 3 meters (10 feet) in height.
It went extinct about 100,000 years ago. Thankfully for ancient humans, it had a {vegetarian} diet.
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276Graham {crackers} were inspired by the preaching of Sylvester Graham, a 19th century American preacher.
Graham believed that eating a bland vegetarian diet would reduce people's dangerous sexual desires.
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151{Guns} {N'} {Roses} spent over 10 years and $13 million dollars making the album "Chinese Democracy".
Released in 2008 to lukewarm reviews, it was the most expensive rock album ever produced.
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43Hofstadter's Law states: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account {Hofstadter}'s Law"
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239Homo sapiens have been around for 300,000 years or so. But, as a species, we have much less genetic diversity than
one would expect for such a long period of time. Why? One hypothesis is that a genetic "bottleneck" occurred
after the Toba {supervolcano} eruption around 75,000 years ago, According to this hypothesis, the {volcano} lowered
global temperatures so much that the world population fell to just a few thousand people.
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282Humans have 3 types of "cone" cells in their eyes, but birds have 4.
This allows them to see light in the {ultraviolet} spectrum.
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360In 1783, the volcano Laki started erupting on the island of {Iceland}. For eight months, it spewed huge quantities
of sulfuric gasses into the atmosphere. These gasses killed crops and poisoned the grass, killing the livestock who ate it.
About 25% of the population of {Iceland} died in the resulting famine.
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202In 1894, the New York State constitution was amended to protect the lands of the {Adirondack} Forest and keep them
"forever wild". The results of this protection can be clearly seen as a huge, dark green area on satellite maps of the state.
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280In 1894, there were 50,000 horses in London collectively dropping 1 million pounds of {manure} a day.
The Times looked at the growth rate and projected that by 1944 London would be covered in 9 feet of {manure}.
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290In 1932, the Australian government fought a war against {emus} but lost.
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199In 1963 the population of the {United} {Arab} {Emirates} was only about 95 thousand.
Today it is over 9.5 million - an increase of 10,000%.
However, a majority of the residents are guest workers from third world countries who have few legal rights.
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214In 1967, Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of {Australia}, went for a swim.
He was swept up in the current and presumed drowned, but his body was never found.
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234In Australia, the sheep population, cow population and {kangaroo} population are all higher than the human population.
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102In biology, a {chimera} is an organism whose cells don't all have the same DNA.
This can happen in humans, and can result in a person having two different blood types.
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291In Communist Romania, the secret police was known as the {Securitate}. 1 in 43 Romanians was an informer.
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40In contrast to Moore's law, {Eroom}'s law states that the cost of developing
a new pharmaceutical drug doubles every 9 years.
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272In Europe, during the Middle Ages, {animals} were sometimes tried for crimes in a court of law.
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126In her old age, Queen {Elizabeth} {I} was praised for her beauty despite
missing several teeth and being half bald due to smallpox.
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25In Jewish mythology, Adam had a wife before Eve. Her name was {Lilith}.
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359In many ancient hunter-gatherer societies a significant percentage of people who died were murdered
or killed in battle. But {violence} has fallen steadily over time. Today, fewer than 0.04% of deaths are due to {violence}.
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173In one of the greatest upsets of all-time, the racehorse "Man o' War"
lost to a horse named "{Upset}" at the 1919 Sanford Stakes.
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229In {South} {Korea}, it is a common belief that people can die if they sleep in a closed room with an electric fan running.
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306In the HBO series "{Chernobyl}", three heroic men are seen volunteering on a "suicide" mission in which they
waded through radioactive water. Many people assume that the men died of radiation poisoning.
But they didn't. In fact, two are still alive while the third died of unrelated heart disease in 2005.
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184In the "Jeeves and Wooster" stories, Jeeves was not a butler - he was a {valet}. The difference?
A {valet} is a personal servant, while a butler is a person who manages household staff.
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71In the story "The Sign of Four", Sherlock Holmes was a frequent
drug user who injected a seven percent solution of {cocaine}.
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42In the year 1920, there were about 5,000 {Amish} people. By 2017, their numbers had grown to 318,400.
At these growth rates, the {Amish} population will reach more than 11 million by the end of century. Invest in farmland.
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93In Vietnam, the Vietnam War is known as the {American} War.
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252{Iron} is the heaviest element that any star can make via fusion. So how did elements like gold come to be?
It is thought that they are created in supernovas or in the collision of neutron stars.
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87It can cost $475 to repair a single broken key on recent models of the {Macbook} {Pro}.
To make matters worse, "dust" has been known to cause these keys to malfunction. Not that I'm bitter...
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141It is estimated that 80% of the animals alive on Earth are nematodes, also known as {roundworms}.
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241It is possible to tell if a piece of {steel} was made before the 1940s. This is because there is a tiny amount of
background radiation in the air from the testing of atomic bombs. Any {steel} made after 1945 has this signature inside it.
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79It is up for debate whether the Nile of the {Amazon} is the world's longest river.
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12John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the Fourth of July, {1826}.
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279Just before the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba went into effect in 1962, John F. Kennedy asked his
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger to get him 1,000 Cuban {cigars}.
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4Lake {Baikal} is both the deepest and the oldest lake in the world.
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89{Lie} {detector} tests are not very reliable. According to the National Academy of Sciences, the polygraph
"may have some utility" but there is "little basis for the expectation
that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy".
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180Life expectancy in {Glasgow} is seven years lower than UK average.
While there are many hypotheses for the "{Glasgow} effect", there is no definitive explanation.
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223{Lobsters} keep growing their entire lives, and can live to be over 100 years old.
The largest {lobster} ever caught weighed over 20 kilograms.
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118Many names that we today consider to be female names were once
common male names. Examples include Evelyn, Meredith, and {Vivian}.
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11{Mark} {Twain} was born two weeks after the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835
and died one day after it returned 75 years later.
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203{Marlon} {Brando} was only 47 years old when he filmed The Godfather.
For comparison, as of 2019, Tom Cruise is 56 and Brad Pitt is 55.
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39Moore's Law states that number of transistors on a {microchip} doubles every 12-24 months.
This law generally held true for fifty years, from 1965-2015, but many people think the rate of doubling is now slower.
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16More Americans died in the {Civil} {War} than in all foreign wars combined.
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243More than 6 times as many {Soviet} soldiers died in WWII as American soldiers that died in all wars combined.
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340{Mt.} {Whitney} is the highest point in the United States outside of Alaska.
It is located less than 90 miles away from Death Valley - the lowest point.
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41Muphry's Law states that anytime you criticize someone's {spelling} or {grammar},
there will be a {spelling} or {grammar} mistake in your criticism.
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341"{Nocent}" is an archaic word that means guilty, the opposite of innocent.
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312Of all the legal tender coins made by the U.S. mint, every one is made
mostly of copper except the {penny} which is 97.5% zinc.
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58Of all the people in the Bible, {Methuselah} had the longest life span: 969 years. Some people believe that
this number results from errors in translation and that his actual age was 969 lunar months, about 78.5 years.
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310Old Blue was the name of a black robin who was the last fertile female of her species. This species, on an island
off the east coast of {New} {Zealand}, was incredibly brought back from the brink of extinction in the 1980s.
Today, there are more than 250 black robins, all descended from "Old Blue".
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110Old Jonathan is the oldest known living animal. He is a Seychelles giant {tortoise} who is at least 186 years old.
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245On a rotary phone, some numbers were much faster to dial than others. So when the U.S. created area codes in the 1940s,
it gave major cities "quicker" area codes. This is why New York City is {212}, Chicago is 312, and Los Angeles is 213.
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9Only 7 prisoners were inside the {Bastille} when it was stormed during the French Revolution.
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179Only {six} deaths were recorded in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
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168Parkinson's law of {triviality}, also known as "bikeshedding", argues that organizations give disproportionate weight
to trivial issues because they are easy to understand. For example, if a proposed solar power plant includes plans
for an employee bike shed, then there will be a lots of debate about the bike shed while
the complicated engineering issues are overlooked.
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238Parts of {Canada} are further south than parts of California.
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228Pedro López is a serial killer known as the "Monster of the {Andes}". He killed at least 53 people and as possibly
as many as 300. Due to sentencing restrictions, he was released after only 14 years in Ecuadorian prison.
He was then committed to a Colombian insane asylum but was let go after 1 year.
His current whereabouts are unknown.
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217People had every reason to expect the {Spanish} {Inquisition}. When arriving in a city, they would announce
themselves and give heretics a few weeks to confess without severe punishment.
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104People with {Williams} Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, tend to be extremely outgoing - even with strangers.
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269{Peruse} means "To read completely". It also means "To look over casually; to skim".
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47{Pluto} was demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006 after the discovery of Eris, a trans-Neptunian with a greater mass.
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316Political opponents of {Chester} {A.} {Arthur} claimed that
he was born in Canada and therefore ineligible to become President.
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208Quetzalcoatlus was possibly the largest animal to ever fly.
A pterosaur that lived during the late {Cretaceous}, it had a wingspan of over 10 meters in length.
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248Rabbits were used in early pregnancy tests. When female rabbits were injected with urine from a pregnant woman,
their ovaries would change. Unfortunately, the rabbit had to be dissected to find out. Later tests used {frogs}.
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343{Reno}, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California.
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172R.J. Smeed was a transportation researcher who theorized that automobile traffic in a city center will always move
at {9} miles per hour. Any faster, and more people will drive. Any slower, and fewer will.
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213{Rome} is further north than New York City (just barely).
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37Sarah Palin never said that she could see Russia from her house.
That quote came from Saturday Night Live star {Tina} {Fey}.
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363Seventeen U.S. Presidents didn't have a {Vice} {President} at some point in their term. Four Presidents never had
a {Vice} {President} at all. Why? Prior to the passage of the 25th Amendment in 1973, there was no
established procedure for filling a vacancy in the office of the {Vice} {President}.
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197{Shanghai} is a word. It means to force or trick someone to working on the crew of a ship.
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244{Sharks} have existed on this planet longer than trees have.
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59Simeon Stylites was a Christian saint who lived in Syria in the 400s AD.
He gained fame for living on top of a {pillar} for the last 37 years of his life.
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321Since 1980, {India} has only won 1 Olympic gold medal.
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143Some of the most famous stories in The Arabian Nights weren't in the original collection.
The stories of {Aladdin} and Ali Baba were folk tales added by Frenchman Antoine Galland in the 1700s.
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194Spaghetti is plural. A single strand of spaghetti is a {spaghetto}.
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251Supernovas are extremely powerful. In fact, a supernova viewed from 150 million kilometers away
(the distance from the Earth to the Sun) would appear more than 1 billion times as bright as a
{hydrogen} {bomb} that detonated directly in front of your face.
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24{Syphilis} has been called "The French Disease" by Italians, "The Italian Disease" by the French,
and "The Christian Disease" by Arabs. In reality, it probably came from the New World.
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1Technically, Manila is not the most populous city in the Philippines.
The neighboring municipality of {Quezon} {City} has a higher population.
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74Technically speaking, Alaska is both the westernmost and the easternmost U.S. state.
Some of the {Aleutian} Islands are so far west that they extend into the Eastern Hemisphere.
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265Thanks to its many overseas territories, {France} has more time zones than any country on Earth.
With 12 times zones, it has one more than Russia and the United States, which have 11.
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264The airspeed velocity of an unladen {swallow} is about 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour).
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313The {Basque} language, spoken in parts of Spain and France, is not closely related to any other known language.
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311The Berlin Brandenburg {airport} was originally scheduled to open in 2011. After a few delays, invitations to the
grand opening were sent in 2012. But then a problem appeared. And then another, and another.
As of 2019, the {airport} is still not ready. So much for German efficiency.
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362The birth rate in {Japan} was 25% lower in 1966 than it was in 1965 or 1967, This is because of a {Japanese}
superstition that says its unlucky for a girl to be born in the Year of the Fire Horse, an event which happens every 60 years.
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38The book {Moby} {Dick} starts with the famous opening line "Call me Ishmael".
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68The {Bristlecone} {Pine} tree, native to the western United States, has the
longest life span of any known organism - over 5,000 years.
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247The cashew tree doesn't just produce cashew nuts. It also produces a fruit called a {cashew} {apple}.
The fruit doesn't have a long shelf life ans is not generally sold outside its native climate.
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336The cease fire to end WWI was signed at 5:45 am on {November} {11}, {1918}. But it didn't come into effect until
11:00 am that day. Sadly, in the intervening hours, fighting continued and 2,738 men died on the last day of the war.
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350The city of {Budapest} was formed by the merger of Pest and Buda in 1873.
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134The city of {Pasadena}, Texas was founded in 1893. It was named after
the city of {Pasadena}, California which had been founded just seven years earlier.
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361The city of Saint Pierre, on the island of {Martinique}, was once called "The Paris of the Caribbean". It was completely
destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Pelée in 1902. Of the 28,000 people in the town at the time, only 2 survived.
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287The easternmost part of Tennessee is closer to {Canada} than it is to Memphis.
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345The effects of wealth disparity can last for centuries, In the year {1066}, the Normans conquered England and
placed themselves on top of the social hierarchy. More than 900 years later, people with Norman
last names are still about 10% wealthier than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
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344The facial hair style known as “{sideburns}" is named after U.S. Civil War general Ambrose Burnside.
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106The fastest that anyone has ever completed the {JetPunk} {Countries} {of} {the} {World} {quiz} is 2 minutes 33 seconds.
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211The first person to walk on the moon was alive at the same time as the first person to fly in a {plane}.
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107The full, official name of Bolivia is "The {Plurinational} State of Bolivia".
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95The Greek philosopher Epicurus believed that {happiness} was the purpose of life. To best achieve {happiness},
he advised his followers to avoid overeating, limit sexual desire, act justly, and to pursue strong friendships.
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254The {guillotine} was invented as a humane way to execute someone. But it wasn't only used during the
French Revolution. France used it to execute people until 1977.
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249The {Gullah} are an African-American culture from the coastal areas and islands of Georgia and South Carolina.
They speak a creole language that is a mixture of English and African languages.
Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas spoke {Gullah} as a first language.
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314The {Harlem} {Globetrotters} used to be a serious basketball team. In fact, in 1948, they beat the
Minneapolis Lakers, considered by many to be the best team in the country.
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113The {Hawaiian} islands were once known to Europeans as the Sandwich Islands -
named by explorer James Cook after the 4th Earl of Sandwich.
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96The "{hedonic} treadmill" is the tendency of humans to quickly adjust to either good or bad news.
It's the reason why winning the lotto won't make you happy.
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131The {Japanese} stock market peaked in 1989. As of 2018, it is still worth 40% less than its all-time high.
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145The {Labrador} {Retriever} has been the most popular dog breed in the United States every year since 1991.
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5The largest island in the United States is {Hawaii}, also known as "The Big Island".
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233The last time a supernova was visible with the naked eye was in 1604. Known as "{Kepler}'s Supernova",
it was so bright it could be seen during the day for a period of three weeks.
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232The {Mekong} river catfish can reach weights of up to 350 kilograms.
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346The name {Gary} saw a huge surge in popularity starting in the mid-1920s when actor Frank Cooper
changed its name to {Gary} Cooper in honor of his hometown of {Gary}, Indiana.
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73The official name of {Bangkok} is Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.
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111The only country to have a non-rectangular flag is {Nepal}.
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3The only U.S. presidents to run unopposed were George Washington and {James} {Monroe}.
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262The Patagonian {toothfish} was rebranded as "Chilean sea bass" to make it more appealing in the American
seafood market. This is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to the Patagonian {toothfish}.
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357The percentage of American who die due to {lightning} strikes has declined by over 98% since 1900.
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69The places in the original version of the board game "Monopoly" were inspired by {Atlantic} {City}, New Jersey.
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328The poorest U.S. state ({West} {Virginia}) has a higher per-capita income than the United Kingdom.
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86There are currently 186,700 tonnes of {gold} above ground. At today's prices
of $1,300 an ounce, this is worth about 8.6 trillion dollars.
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300There are over 5000 people in the United States whose first name is "{Unique}".
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65The record for the fastest manned jet aircraft is held by the SR-71 {Blackbird},
whose record speed of 2,193,2 miles per hour was recorded in 1976.
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286The record for the fastest vehicle on water was set in 1978 by Australian Ken Warby. His boat, the Spirit of {Australia},
reached a speed of 511 km/h. Two attempts to beat his record have resulted in the death of the pilot.
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125The record for the world's heaviest {pumpkin} is 2624.6 pounds. The record has increased by over 400% since 1980.
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205There is a great deal of genetic diversity in Africa. In fact, it's possible for two {San} tribesmen living with
walking distance of each other to be further apart genetically than a typical European and Asian.
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142There is a mid-sized city in Turkey named {Batman}. It has nothing to do with bats or superheroes.
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284There was once a {chicken} that lived for 18 months without a head. His name was Mike.
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147The Roman emperor {Commodus} renamed the city of Rome to "Colonia Commodiana".
He also renamed all the months of the year in his own honor. Unsurprisingly, the name changes didn't stick.
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83The "{Salon}", held in Paris, was arguably the world's most important annual art exhibition between 1748 and 1890.
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112The {sandwich} was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of {Sandwich}.
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91The scientific name of the {chimpanzee} is Pan troglodytes.
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29"{The} {Shawshank} {Redemption}" is the highest-rated movie on the website IMDB. "The Godfather" is a close second.
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255The star {Betelgeuse} (pronounced Beetlejuice) is so big, that if were located
where the sun is, it would completely engulf Earth, Mars, and maybe even Jupiter.
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144The story of {Aladdin} is supposed to take place in China, not the Middle East,
even though many details of the story don't really make sense in a Chinese setting.
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46The {Sun} weighs about 332,000 times as much as the Earth.
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31The thylacine, or {Tasmanian} {Tiger}, was a carnivorous marsupial that lived in Australia
until it was killed off by humans. The last known member of the species died in 1936.
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293The tiny suburb of {Medina}, Washington has a population of 2,969 but is home to
the two richest people in the world: Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
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338The tip of the {Washington} {Monument} is a solid piece of aluminium weighing 100 ounces. Today this seems like
a strange choice, but at the time it was extremely impressive. Aluminium used to be very difficult to manufacture.
In 1884, the tip of the {Washington} {Monument} was the largest single piece of aluminium anywhere in the world.
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309The town of {Monowi}, Nebraska is the only incorporated place in the United States with a population of 1. Its sole
resident. Elsie Eiler, serves as mayor. She grants herself a liquor license to operate a tavern and pays taxes to herself.
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258The true scale of {China}'s execution of political prisoners may be far larger than it is generally acknowledged.
There are almost no organ donors in {China}, yet as many as 20,000 organ transplants are performed each year.
Furthermore, wait times for organ transplants are very low compared to other countries.
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298The Tunguska event was an incident in 1908 where 2,000 square kilometers of {Siberian} forest were
flattened by a huge explosion. It is thought to have been caused by an asteroid impact, and if so would be the
largest such event in recorded history. Only two deaths were reported.
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15The United States is older than Germany. Germany did not become a unified country until {1871}.
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90The {unmatched} {count} method allows researchers to get
accurate responses to questionsthat people might normally lie about.
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171The U.S. government made 1.5 million {Purple} {Heart} medals in 1945 in preparation for the invasion of Japan.
But the atomic bomb ended the war early and the {Purple} {Hearts} were never needed. Since the number of
medals produced has far exceeded the number of American casualties in every war since WWII,
these same {Purple} {Hearts} are still being given to troops injured in combat today.
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296The U.S. Navy's SEAL {Team} {Six} was not the sixth SEAL team. At the time there were only two.
The name was chosen to confuse the Soviets.
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67The U.S. Secret Service uses code names to refer to members of the Presidential family. Such code-names
have included "Rawhide", for Ronald Reagan, "Lancer" for John F. Kennedy and “{Renegade}" for Barack Obama.
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325The word "{arena}" derives from "harena", the latin word for sand. In ancient Roman times,
gladiatorial {arenas} would be covered with sand to absorb the blood that was shed there.
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303The word "soccer" was invented in England as a shortening of "{association} {football}".
Until recent decades, British people used the words soccer and football interchangeably.
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153The world's tenth tallest pyramid is a Bass Pro Shops store in {Memphis}, {Tennessee}.
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326"Throwing {like} {a} {girl}" is a real phenomenon. The ability to throw overhand is one of the largest biological
differences between the sexes. In fact, the world record for the fastest overhand baseball throw by a woman is
just 69mph, a speed regularly exceeded by 12 year old Little League players.
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231Toxoplasma gondii is a peculiar parasite. It can only reproduce inside a {cat}.
However, it can also infect rodents. When a rodent is infected, its behavior changes.
It becomes less averse to the small of {cat} urine and therefore more likely to be eaten by a {cat}.
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149{Trepanning} is the practice of drilling a hole in the skill for medical purposes.
While ineffective, it was practiced in many different societies throughout history.
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92"Troglodyte" is another word for {caveman}.
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250{Turkeys} can reproduce asexually. However, the offspring are generally not robust.
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186Twenty one people died in {Boston} in 1919 when a giant tank of molasses burst,
flooding the streets with 12,000 tons of molasses.
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154Two thousand people were killed in {Halifax}, Nova Scotia when a ship carrying high explosives blew up in 1917.
At the time, it was the largest man-made explosion in history, only surpassed after the invention of nuclear weapons.
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188Under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican Republic renamed its capital from {Santo} {Domingo}
to Ciudad Trujillo. The changes were reverted when Trujillo died in 1961.
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235Until 2016, the song "{Happy} {Birthday} {to} {You}" was owned by Warner/Chappell Music. They earned over
$2 million a year in royalties, and reportedly sued restaurant chains or other businesses that sang the song in public.
Thankfully, the copyright was invalidated and the song is now in the public domain.
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292Until the early 20th century, it was common for young boys to wear {dresses} instead of pants.
For example, here is a picture of a two year old Franklin D. Roosevelt . (After you've done the quiz)
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62U.S. politicians Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee were both born in the small town of {Hope}, Arkansas.
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230U.S. President {Andrew} {Jackson} once killed a man in a duel.
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36{Viking} warriors served as elite troops in the army of the Byzantine Empire.
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332Was {Napoleon} short for his time? We don't actually know. It all depends on how he was measured at his autopsy.
Some people think that English units were used while others think that old French units were used.
So he was either 5'2'' (1.57m) or 5'7'' (1.70m).
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101When he was a teenager living in Sudan, former NBA basketball player
{Manute} {Bol} supposedly killed a lion with a spear.
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185When we read a news story about a subject we know well, we are often struck by the many errors and
misinterpretations the story contains. However, reading a story about an unfamiliar subject, we often believe it,
forgetting the errors from before. This effect is known as "Gell-Mann {amnesia}".
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215Winston Churchill never said that the traditions of the British navy
were "{rum}, {sodomy}, and the {lash}". But it's still a funny quote.
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271Wojtek was a {bear} who served in the Polish army during WWII. Employed to haul ammunition,
he was initially given the ranks of private but was later promoted to corporal.
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347You can think yourself thin, but it won't be easy. {Grandmaster} chess players often lose a
significant amount of weight during long chess tournaments. The intense concentration causes a
great deal of stress on the body, which results in more calories being burnt.
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