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About 300,000 pedestrians, the population of Iceland, pass through Times Square every day.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE -
Marie Curie couldn't legally attend College, so she did it illegally, going to what was known as the "Flying University," a secret organization.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Search Engines can only access 0.03% of the Internet. The rest is known as the "deep web."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Some non-redheaded men have red beards because they have one copy of the MC1R gene. Two copies would make them fully redheads.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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You spend 10% of your waking life blinking.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1898, Nikola Tesla predicted drone warfare.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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At the peak of his power, infamous Medellin cartel boss Pablo Escobar brought in an estimated US$420 million a week in revenue.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Sultan Moulay Ismail, who ruled Morocco in the 17th century, is said to have fathered around 1000 children .♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Male ducks have been observed engaging in necrophilic gay sex.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A British research study found that watching a horror film prior to viewing abstract art enhances the enjoyment of the art for most people.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The motto of Russia's nuclear strike missile force is: "After us, it is silence."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are albino bottlenose dolphins.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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King of the French Louis Phillippe survived 7 assassination attempts.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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You can visit the Grand Canyon using Google Street View.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If we all consumed as much as the average U.S. citizen, we would need 4.8 Earths to sustain ourselves.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In the U.S., people think one-third of the population are immigrants. In reality, it's just 14%.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The name "Jessica" first appeared in Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Streaming services like Netflix and Hulu save kids from over 150 hours of commercials a year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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About 8% of human DNA actually comes from viruses.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In the 1980s, the financial sector claimed just 10% of U.S. corporate profits. By the 2010s, it's almost 30%, supplanting manufacturing as the biggest profit center in the economy.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Children in the war-torn city of Aleppo, Syria, have been seen using a bomb crater as a makeshift swimming pool.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2012, a Cleveland woman, arrested for a traffic infraction, was ordered to stand for 2 days holding a sign that read "Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Australians are the world's biggest meat eaters, consuming almost 200lbs each every year, closely followed by Americans.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Anne Frank rewrote her diary in 1944 to improve content and language after hearing the Dutch government-in-exile's advise to keep diaries as a record of what went on under the Nazis.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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50% of the world's population lives in just 1% of its land.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Liars blink less frequently than normal during the lie, and then speed up to around eight times faster than usual afterwards.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Spanking children makes them more likely to be defiant to their spanking parent, a study found. It also makes them more likely to have anti social and mental issues.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An elephant's trunk has more than 40,000 muscles. In comparison a human being only has 639 muscles total.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2015, two day care employees in New Jersey were imprisoned for running a toddler "fight club" among a dozen boys and girls aged 4-6.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
