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During WW2, most people believed Germany would quickly crush the Soviet Union in 3 to 6 months. It took three and a half years and they lost.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Dubai man Mohammad Basheer bought a lottery ticket before boarding an Emirates flight that crashed. He escaped the crash and won the lottery.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ten trillionths of your suntan comes from the light of other galaxies.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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We can't remember much of our first few years because the hippocampus wasn't developed enough to build a rich memory of an event.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Tigers wait until dark to hunt. Their night vision is six times better than that of humans.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In the Saxon Kingdoms of Britain, 240 "sterlings" were minted from a pound of silver, hence the currency "Pound Sterling."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Omphalophobia is the fear of bellybuttons.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The IRS has tax rules about how to claim your child as a dependent if they have been kidnapped.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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George Washington did not have wooden teeth. They were made of gold, ivory, lead, human and animal teeth.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Stonehenge was built at least 300 years before the Egyptian pyramids.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Hawaiian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series of failed universes. The octopus is the lone survivor of the previous alien universe.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The median age for depression in the U.S. is 32.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Elvis Presley was occasionally bullied by classmates who viewed him as a 'mama's boy'.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Hylophobia is the fear of trees.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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To plan for D-Day, the BBC ran a competition for French beach holiday photographs as a way of gathering intelligence on suitable beaches.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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For 2 years during WW1, the Big Ben's bells were silenced and the clock was not illuminated at night to avoid guiding attacking German Zeppelins.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Up to 10% of invasive cancers are related to radiation exposure.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Eddie Eagan is the only person to ever win gold medals in both the Winter and Summer Olympics: boxing and bobsled.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Jupiter doesn't orbit the sun's center. It orbits a spot in empty space between it and the sun called the barycenter.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In Korea, everyone is one year old from the time they are born, and everyone gets a year older on New Year's day.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An inmate filed a US$5 million lawsuit against himself. He claimed that he violated his own civil rights by getting arrested. He then asked the state to pay because he has no income in jail.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In Victorian London, people were paid to collect dog poop. It was used to tan leather.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Canada is the only host nation in the history of the games not to win a gold medal in their own Summer Olympic Games, Montreal 1976.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Masaya Volcano located in Managua, Nicaragua, is getting Wi-Fi. Researchers are installing it to better predict the volcano's eruptions.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The air pressure weighing down on you at any given time is the equivalent of a small car about 1 ton.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Waldorf Astoria Hotel once had its own private railroad track at Grand Central so that its guests could clandestinely enter and exit New York City.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Jimmy Carter reported seeing a UFO before he was president, in 1969.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The original name of Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty, was Bedloe's Island.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Vietnamese don't call it the "Vietnam War," they call it the "Resistance War Against America."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
