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Fossils demonstrate that some dinosaurs slept with their heads tucked under their arms.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The oldest undisputed sculpture of a human being is about 40,000 years old and shows a woman with big breasts and elaborately carved genitalia.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A container with almost 5 million Lego pieces fell into the sea off Cornwall in 1997. They are still washing up on Cornish beaches today.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Turophobia is the fear of cheese.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Kakonomics" is the concept in which people expect mediocrity from others so less is expected of themselves.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An Olympic gold medal in Rio 2016 gave British athletes an average of just over 9000 extra Twitter followers.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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30 years ago, you had about about 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today it's down to 3 to 4 minutes because newer homes and the furniture inside them burn faster.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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About one-fifth of all the gold held by the world's governments, worth about US$248 billion, is stored beneath the streets of London.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Apple could buy Disney or Coca-Cola and pay in cash.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In Japan, Christmas Eve is a time to eat strawberry shortcake and fried chicken.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ramen is now the most popular traded item in U.S. prisons, surpassing cigarettes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Nearly 50 athletes on the U.S. Olympic team of Rio 2016 weren't born in America.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Microbiologists can make make electrical wires 60,000 times thinner than a human hair.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ancient Greeks asserted that the dilution of wine with water was a mark of civilized behavior.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The U.S. dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on Laos from 1964 to 1973 during the Vietnam War. That's equal to a planeload every 8 minutes for 9 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Vasili Arkhipov, a senior officer on a Soviet submarine, refused to launch a nuclear torpedo in October 1962, perhaps preventing WW3.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The FBI tracks animal abuse just like homicide, arson and assault.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Once you learn about something new, you start noticing it everywhere. It's called the "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Aztecs were the first to combine domesticated tomatoes and chilies to make what we now call salsa.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2013, more than 800,000 international tourists visited Iraq, despite the fact that it was a war zone.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ten countries won their first ever Olympic gold medals at the Rio Olympics, including Vietnam, Singapore and Jordan.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A cocaine addict's heart can beat for 25 minutes outside their body.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Dueling with wax bullets was once an Olympic sport.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The homeless of Tokyo, Japan, sleep in 24-hour Internet cafes, since it's cheaper than paying rent.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Dyslexia is not limited to visual reading. Blind dyslexics are also affected when reading braille.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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More than a quarter century after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Chinese authorities still censor information about it.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Queen Elizabeth II was courted by Prince Philip when he was 18 and she was only 13. They are also cousins.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The first Olympic disqualification for drug use was against a Swedish pentathlete who drank two beers before his shooting event to calm his nerves.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A London couple kept a man from Nigeria as their slave for 24 years before he finally escaped. They were finally arrested and sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2015.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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After WW2, 1,500 German scientists were given amnesty on the condition that they work for the U.S. government .♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
