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The median white U.S. household will have 86x more wealth than the median black household by 2020.

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While studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior, neuroscientist James Fallon found that his own brain fit the profile.

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1.75 million worshippers went to the holy city of Mecca in 2017.

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India has 454 living languages and 16 official ones.

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Vladimir Putin's grandfather worked as a chef for Stalin and Lenin, and Rasputin.

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Records suggest that, between 1529 and 1532, King Henry VIII gambled away almost a million pounds by today's standards.

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A week's worth of the New York Times contains more information than the average 17th-century citizen encountered in a lifetime.

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When taking a photo, Chinese people often say their word for "eggplant" instead of saying "cheese."

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Adults spend more time each morning checking emails and using the internet than eating breakfast, according to a study.

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The more attractive a woman is, the less likely a man is to intend to use a condom during sex with her, according to a study.

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When she is in London, Queen Elizabeth II is awoken by a bagpiper playing outside her window.

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The band playing most of the songs on Michael Jackson's Thriller album was Toto.

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David Bowie had a heart attack on stage in 2004, paused for a minute, then continued the show.

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Quebec banned ads for toys and fast food aimed at children under 13, resulting in lowered childhood obesity rates.

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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is a rare genetic disease which causes damaged soft tissue to regrow as bone.

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In Northern Ireland, women earn 3.4% more than men on average.

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"Stan", from the Eminem song with the same name, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary, defining it as "an overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity"

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At the current rate, by 2020, Bitcoin will consume more power than the world does today.

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Today's human population is descended from twice as many women as men. About 80% of women reproduced, whereas only 40% of men did.

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4.6 million Americans were severely behind on payments on student loans in 2017.

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In 2008, the Municipality of Florence officially apologized for expelling Dante Alighieri 700 years earlier.

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Corporatocracy is a term used to refer to an economic and political system controlled by corporate interests.

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Communist leader Vladimir Lenin spoke English with a strong Irish accent because his tutor was an Irishman.

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In 2016, a study found, only 27% of words spoken in the biggest movies were spoken by women.

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According to a 1967 U.N. treaty, nobody can own celestial bodies such as Mars or the Moon.

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Every year, Iceland gets wider by two centimetres.

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Red Bull was originally called Red Water Buffalo.

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A volcano in Guatemala has erupted almost once an hour since 1923.

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Airlines make more money selling air miles than seats: between 1.5 and 2.5 cents per mile.

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In 2016, a worker at the Royal Canadian Mint was caught smuggling gold coins out in his bottom.

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