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Enric Marco, a Catalan mechanic, was a prominent public face of Spanish survivors of the Holocaust for decades, until his story was revealed to be a lie.
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Netflix is responsible for 15% of global Internet traffic.
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About 20% of the world's tech founders are immigrants, even though immigrants only make up about 4 percent of the world's population. -
In 4 of the 5 largest cities in the U.S., it's cheaper to rely on Uber than to own a car, a 2018 report found. -
Latin America is the most unequal region in the world. In 2014 the richest 10% of people in Latin America had amassed 71% of the region's wealth.
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People who think their opinions are superior to others may be most prone to overestimating their relevant knowledge and ignoring chances to learn more, a study found.
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Germany had highest numbers of asylum requests in 2015.
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Michael Phelps considered suicide after the 2012 Summer Olympics. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation to help other people with mental illness.
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There's a baby called Netflix de Jesús Rodríguez Restrepo in Colombia.
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Lighting hasn't brought down a plane since 1963, due to careful engineering that lets the electric charge of a lightning bolt run through the plane and out of it.
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By 2018, the U.S. has 101 people who owe at least $1 million in federal student loans. -
For many Icelanders, WW2 is actually known a “the blessed war" because the country has the war to thank for its independence.
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When Steve Jobs was at his deathbed, he asked for five different oxygen masks so that he could choose the one with the best design.
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The only road out of Equatorial Guinea on the mainland during the mandate of its first president was mined.
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If you want to learn about monsters and ghouls in real life, you can get a PhD in Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh. -
Nearly 40% of the world lived under Marxist governments in the late 20th Century. -
The national anthem of Ukraine is called‘The glory and the freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished'.
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In 1916, there was a proposed Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote. Anyone voting "yes" would have to register as a volunteer for service in the army.
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Spinraza, a drug for spinal muscular atrophy, has a list price of $750,000. -
An IKEA in the Netherlands had to cancel their 1 euro breakfast special because it attracted too many customers and caused traffic jams on the highway.
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All Bran is only 87% bran. -
General Electric is the only company remaining from the original Dow Jones index of 1896.
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As global temperatures rise, flowers are emitting less scent.
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After just under a year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly's gene expression changed significantly and it's different to his identical twin brother's DNA.
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One of the late Stephen Hawking's widely-accepted theories is that black holes aren't black. -
Amazon's largest warehouse is the size of 17 American football fields. -
770,000 people living in England cannot speak English well.
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A single human being's DNA contains as much information as fifty novels.
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All galaxies, regardless of size,rotate once every billion years.
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Dynamite was originally going to be called 'Nobel's Safety Powder'.
