1. The "Share a Coke" campaign --where Coca-Cola replaced its name on bottles with people's first names-- increased Coca-Cola's U.S. sales by more than 2%, reversing more than 10 years of decline in Coke consumption in the U.S.
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  2. Argentina's national sport is not soccer. It's Pato, an ancient horseback game.
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  3. Montana became, in 2018, the first state to make net neutrality mandatory.
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  4. 32 million inappropriate videos were removed from YouTube in 2018 by a team of 10,000 reviewers.
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  5. 1 in 6 U.S. millennials now have savings of $100,000 or more, according to a new Bank of America survey.
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  6. It would cost you only about US$140 a year if you ate ramen for every meal.
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  7. "The Matrix" movie took five years to write.
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  8. U2 singer Bono's stage name comes from the Latin term "Bono Vox" which means "Good Voice."
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  9. 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness).
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  10. In much of the U.S., it is illegal to buy a new car from the manufacturer.
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  11. 3 out of 4 teenage girls feel depressed after looking at a fashion magazine for only 3 minutes, according to a study.
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  12. The average person pees about 6 times a day.
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  13. 75% of all suicide attempts are by self-poisoning with drugs, and 97% of those cases survive.
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  14. Intel employs a "futurist" whose job is to determine what life will be like 10-15 years in the future.
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  15. More than $80 of every $100 of wealth created in 2017 went to the richest 1%.
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  16. According to the Washington Post, Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims in his first year.
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  17. Until three million years ago, whales were less than 30 feet long.
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  18. 420,000 people die annually from tainted food.
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  19. Cuba bans statues of living Cubans.
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  20. 85% of Vakkaru Island in the Maldives is made up of fish faeces.
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  21. 50% of US territory is under the sea.
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  22. England is smaller than
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  23. 1 in 8 young Britons have never seen a cow in real life.
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  24. After Korean soccer player Ahn Jung-hwan scored the goal to eliminate Italy from the 2002 World Cup, his contract was cancelled by the Italian club he played at for ‘ruining Italian soccer.'
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  25. Prisoners waiting to be executed on Death Row in America are given a physical beforehand, to ensure they are fit enough to die.
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  26. In a study following the lives of 19,000 kids for 10 years, video games had no negative social behavior effects on the children.
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  27. According to various studies, between one third and two thirds of people surveyed in the U.S. admit they sometimes feel angry at God.
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  28. 80% of McDonald's restaurants are owned and operated by its franchisees.
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  29. In the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen, it is illegal to die.
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  30. In 2010, a group of 15 monkeys escaped a research institute in Japan by using trees to catapult themselves over a 17ft high electric fence.
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