1. Phonophobia is the fear or aversion of loud sounds.
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  2. Jackie Chan trains his stuntmen and pays their medical bills out of pocket.
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  3. Cacao plants are slated to disappear by as early as 2050 thanks to warmer temperatures and dryer weather conditions.
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  4. Director Guillermo del Toro owns a house called 'Bleak House' in which there's a room with a never-ending rainstorm projected onto all windows and audio to match. He often uses this room to write.
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  5. In China, 171,000 people perished in 1975 due to the collapse of the Banqiao Dam, an event hidden from the world until 2005.
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  6. HDMI licensed manufacturers pay an annual fee of US$10,000 plus a royalty rate of $0.15 per cable, reduced to $0.05 if the HDMI logo is used.
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  7. In France, it is illegal to to publish photographs of handcuffed suspects, as they are not to appear guilty until proven so.
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  8. Oklahoma's 2016 Teacher of the Year moved to Texas in 2017 for a higher salary.
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  9. Netflix show 'Black Mirror' derives its name from the reflection you see in a switched off screen or monitor
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  10. In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Edmund Hillary went
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  11. Finland is the only country in the developed world where fathers of primary school-age children spend more time with their children than mothers.
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  12. Electronic devices are scrambling the navigational cues used by migrating birds.
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  13. Actor Martin Sheen has been arrested 66 times for protesting and other civil disobedience.
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  14. Most people believe other people's social lives are richer and more active than their own, a study found.
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  15. Hawaiian Airlines never had a fatal accident or a hull loss throughout its 88 year history, the oldest in the U.S.
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  16. While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking questions to humans or other apes.
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  17. The second officer of the Titanic, who survived by swimming from the sinking ship to a capsized raft, later in life sailed his civilian craft to Dunkirk and helped evacuate over 130 men.
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  18. "Swatting" happens when someone makes a call to a police department with a false story of an ongoing crime –often with killing or hostages involved– in an attempt to draw a large number of police officers to a particular address.
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  19. In 2017, a Texas wedding photographer was awarded a $1 million defamation verdict against a married couple whom the jury found posted false statements in a social media campaign after being unhappy about a surprise $125 fee.
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  20. Beethoven managed to keep working even after he completely lost his hearing by the time he was 45. By clenching a stick in his teeth, holding it against the keyboard of his piano, he could discern faint sounds.
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  21. Ghanaian soccer player Mohammed Anas accidentally thanked both his wife and his girlfriend in a speech after a match.
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  22. A lychnobite is someone who sleeps all day and works all night.
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  23. Riding a roller coaster can help patients to expel their kidney stones.
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  24. The use of CAPITAL LETTERS TO DENOTE SHOUTING dates back to the 19th century.
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  25. The world record for the most bird species seen by one person in a year is 6,833.
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  26. 65% of all Google searches in 2019 were mobile.
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  27. ‘Bumpsy' is 17th-century slang for ‘drunk'.
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  28. One contender for the geographical centre of the U.S. is a place called Center.
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  29. Giant flying turkeys as big as kangaroos once roamed Australia.
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  30. The US Embassy in Kathmandu has guidelines on what to do if a yeti is found.
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