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The last English woman tried for witchcraft was convicted in 1944.

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Philip is Greek for "horse-lover."

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If a bald eagle loses a feather on one wing, it'll shed a corresponding feather on the other to stay balanced.

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Religion in the U.S. is worth US$1.2 trillion per year, more than America's 10 biggest tech companies.

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The least common PIN number is 8068.

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A ‘singlewoman' was medieval slang for a prostitute.

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When the Hindenburg exploded, over half of the 97 passengers survived.

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The chemical name for titin, the world's largest known protein, is 189,819 letters long.

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Disney was sued by a biologist for defaming the character of hyenas in The Lion King.

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After Charles Dickens' favorite cat died, he turned its paw into a letter opener.

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Horror writer Stephen King sleeps with his lights on.

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Breast-fed babies poop more than bottle-fed babies because breast milk is a laxative.

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The law that first made public school compulsory in America framed ignorance as a Satanic ill to be circumvented through the education of the country's young people.

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A Victorian era nutritionist nicknamed the "Great Masticator" argued that food should be chewed about 100 times per minute before being swallowed.

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A swarm of 20,000 bees once followed a car for two days because their queen was trapped inside the car.

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Archaeologists discovered a 2400-year-old mosaic skeleton that says "Be cheerful and live your life."

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The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum offers audio tours in Klingon, a fictional language from Star Trek.

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Google delisted 1.75 billion websites until 2016 because of copyright takedown requests.

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Unlike other religions, the Dalai Lama urges spiritual seekers not to convert to Tibetan Buddhism, but to remain with their own religions.

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If the Ancient Persians decided something while drunk, they had a rule to reconsider it when sober. If they made a decision sober, they would reconsider it while drunk.

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Pablo Escobar's son says he offered himself as a consultant to Netflix in order to present facts as they actually happened on "Narcos", but the director declined his offer.

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In 2013, after more than 20 years of soda being America's number one beverage, water has taken over as Americans' favorite drink.

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When flights got diverted or grounded during 9/11, Canada housed, fed, and sheltered over 33,000 passengers.

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George Washington inoculated his troops against smallpox, reducing a 17% death rate from the disease down to 1%.

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During WW2, a Japanese officer killed himself rather than order his 2000 Taiwanese subordinates to conduct a kamikaze attack.

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As Vice President, Richard Nixon once carried Louis Armstrong's bags containing three pounds of Marijuana through United States Customs without ever knowing it.

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Disney has credited their coffee guy in 8 of their films, including Zootopia and Frozen.

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In 1942, four Auschwitz inmates successfully escaped by stealing SS officer uniforms and driving a stolen Nazi car through the camp's front gate.

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15% of the air you breathe in a metro station is human skin, a study found.

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There are currently 23 nations that maintain no army, including Andorra, Costa Rica and Liechtenstein.

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