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Elvis Presley was 24 years old when he started seeing 14-year-old Priscilla.

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Malaysia and Singapore are the only two countries on earth that are allowed Visa-free travel to North Korea.

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The King of Jordan, Abdullah bin al-Hussein was an extra on "Star Trek: Voyager."

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President Jimmy Carter signed a bill that created an exemption from taxation of beer brewed at home for personal or family use, opening the door for today's craft beer brewers.

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When Pope John Paul II died, the entire funeral events amounted to € 6 million.

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Walmart loses US$3 billion a year to theft.

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603 million women live in nations where domestic violence is not a crime.

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Birds never crash into each other because they always veer right, a study found.

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Michael Jackson's funeral was the second most-watched ever (31 million people), after Princess Diana's (33.25 million).

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Naked mole-rats have a high resistance to cancer tumours because they produce an extremely high-molecular-mass hyaluronan and have ribosomes that produce extremely error-free proteins.

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Humans have no more genes than worms.

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The Apollo 15 astronauts left a 3 inch "fallen astronaut" statuette on the surface of the moon in 1971 to commemorate all the men and women who died in pursuit of space travel.

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The Nazis made it illegal on pain of death for apes to give the Heil Hitler salute.

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A pumping human heart can squirt blood 30ft.

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Victorians believed tomatos would cause illness unless boiled to the point of collapse.

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Some 7 million people lined the tracks or filed past Lincoln's open casket.

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Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture salesman.

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Warren Buffett started buying stocks when he was 11 years old.

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An Octopus with 96 tentacles was caught in Japan in 2008.

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The Seinfeld theme song was re-recorded every episode to work perfectly with the opening monologue.

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The Ancient Egyptians were the first to make a sweet treat from the marshmallow plant, when they combined its sap with nuts and honey.

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In Texas, more than 16,000 people were incarcerated in 2015 for possessing less than one gram of drugs.

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Bob Dylan has been on a tour since 1988. Aptly named the "Never Ending Tour" has had over 2,700 shows around the world, almost 100 per year for 28 years straight.

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Doctors make a correct diagnosis more than twice as often as 23 commonly used symptom-checker apps, a 2016 study found.

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The word "rooster" was favored in the U.S. as a puritan alternative to "cock" after it had acquired the secondary sense "penis."

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American cows produce 4 times as much milk as they did in 1944.

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"Rhinorrhea" is the medical condition otherwise known as a "runny nose."

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The highest ranking archangel in Judaism is called Metatron.

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Mr. Burns speaks the most words among supporting cast members of The Simpsons.

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Research has shown that all sorts of animals, from insects to monkeys, have a sense of personal space.

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