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A hippopotamus can swallow a man whole.

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Humans first used tools to eat meat at least 250,000 years ago.

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"Police police Police police police police Police police." is a valid sentence, since "police" is both a noun and a verb.

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95%

of humans are naturally immune to leprosy.

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The U.S. gave Israel US$3.1 billion on foreign aid in 2014. That's almost US$10 per American citizen.

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Before finding success and making over US$100 million as a comedian, Steve Harvey was homeless for 3 years.

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The Chinese are twice as willing to purchase products "Made in America" than Chinese products.

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Over 8 million horses died in WW1. Of those who survived, most were sent to Belgian butchers, being regarded as unfit for any other purpose.

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Africans are more genetically diverse than the inhabitants of the rest of the world combined.

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The game "Pokemon Go" earned an estimated US$200 million in its first month.

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When Charles Manson was a child, his mother sold him for a pitcher of beer.

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The "Back to the Future" movie franchise is safe from reboots for as long as the original director and writer are alive.

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A ton of iPhones yield 300 times more gold than a ton of gold ore.

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In 2016, a Dutch woman who was raped in Qatar was convicted of adultery, fined over US$800, and spent months in jail for reporting the crime.

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No country in the world has a lower life expectancy than the the countries with the highest life expectancy in 1800.

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Louis Armstrong spent his adult life celebrating the wrong birthday. He believed it was July 4th, 1900, but it was actually August 4th, 1901.

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Sanitary pads can take 500 to 800 years to decompose in landfills.

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The man who inspired the 2004 Tom Hanks movie "The Terminal" spent 18 years living at the departure lounge of Charles de Gaulle Airport.

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Legends say China began in a great flood, some 4,000 years ago. Scientists found geological evidence that the flood was real.

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A study in Canada found that people now have a shorter attention span than goldfish, just 8 seconds.

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Being attentive to your partner and making your partner feel special will boost sexual desire, a study found.

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The Nazis invented the Olympic Torch Relay.

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The 'fuel efficiency' of walking is roughly equivalent to 360 miles per gallon.

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Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones in 2015. That's worth about US$40 million.

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A study found that nearly 16,000 American babies are born premature each year at least in part because of air pollution.

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In 1909, Teddy Roosevelt and his son went on a "conservation mission" to Africa on which they killed a whopping 512 animals.

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93% of the Great Barrier Reef is now damaged by coral bleaching.

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Kurt Cobain dropped out of high school, then worked there as a janitor.

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The creator of Legos made a policy of no military sets because he didn't want war to seem like child's play.

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Santa Claus received 670 votes in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.

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