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President Banana, first president of Zimbabwe, passed a law forbidding citizens from making jokes about his name.

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A man in California got a personalized license plate that said "No Plate" and received more than 2500 parking tickets.

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Research shows that
just thinking about a Plan B

can make it less likely
that you'll achieve Plan A.

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Homosexual

parenting

is very common

in birds.

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The top 1% of bands and solo artists earn 77% of all revenue from recorded music, a 2014 report found.

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Data is a plural term, so we should write "the data are" not "the data is." Datum is singular.

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Bread is actually unhealthy for ducks.

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In 2015, San Jose police stopped a man from committing suicide by sending him pizza and a phone using a bomb disposal robot.

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Winston Churchill's last words were "I'm so bored with it all."

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A peasant couple from Russia holds the record for the most children a couple has parented: 69 children in 27 births.

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The average U.S. adult reads 5 books per year.

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In 1992, a man fell to his death at the Grand Canyon while failing to pretend to fall off the railing.

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Machu Picchu means "Old Peak" or "Old Mountain" in the Quechua Indian language.

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An Austrian fertility doctor fathered up to 600 children by using his own sperm to impregnate customers between 1943 and 1962.

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A 2-hour movie plus 5 minutes of previews uses 2.1 miles (3.4 km) of 35mm film.

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Time magazine named Gandhi the Man of the Year in 1930. Later in 1938, they named Hitler.

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The average male would have to drink 149 cans of Red Bull to die from a caffeine overdose. But it would vomit before drinking that much.

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Pigeons can be trained to detect breast cancer in mammogram scans.

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Happy cows produce more milk, and simply the act of calling them by their name ups the production by an extra 3.5%

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The only survivors of the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster were some parasitic worms called nematodes.

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Coffee has been found to reverse liver damage caused by alcohol.

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Muscle comes from the Latin musculus, which means "little mouse," because a flexed muscle was thought to resemble a mouse.

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The last song Frank Sinatra ever performed live was "The Best is Yet to Come." Those words are also inscribed on his tombstone.

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Most of Las Vegas' iconic hotels and even its famous welcome sign aren't technically located in the city of Las Vegas. They are in an unincorporated township called Paradise, Nevada.

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Switzerland has the second highest life expectancy in the world with 83.4 years.

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In 1766, Sweden became the first country in the world to introduce a constitutional law to abolish censorship.

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The number of days Phil spends in the time loop of the movie Groundhog Day was estimated to be around 30 to 40 years.

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If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from the Allies (except Russia) you faced a 4% chance of not surviving the war. If you were an Allied held by the Japanese, you faced a 30% chance of dying.

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The sole term in English to begin with "tm" is "Tmesis," the insertion of words between a compound phrase, as in "what-so-ever" inserted in the middle of "whatever."

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When a crow dies, the other crows investigate if there's a threat where the death occurred, so they can avoid it in the future.

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