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On January 1st, 2018, recreational marijuana will be legal in California.

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Thomas Edison invented the tattoo pen.

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In the U.S., the death toll from guns is higher for kids ages 0-4 than it is for on-duty law enforcement officers.

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Studies show that trauma victims who don't search for a reason for their misfortune turn out to be the most well-adjusted years later.

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Between 2007 and 2016, only 4% of Hollywood directors were female and 80% of those got the chance to make only one film.

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The eyes of the celestial eye goldfish are bigger than its stomach.

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In 2017, US$10 made you a millionaire in Venezuela's local currency.

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French newspaper Charlie Hebdo's next issue after the 2015 shooting run almost 8 million copies in 6 languages, compared to its typical print run of 60,000.

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Carbon stocks in vegetation have a key role in the climate system; humans are responsible for reducing it by over 50%.

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Double stuffed Oreos are only stuffed 1.86x more than regular Oreos.

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Studies show that spending just a few minutes in the noisy New York City subway system every day can ultimately result in hearing loss.

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A study found that over three-quarters of U.S. workers use social media at work, regardless of any rules put in place by their employers.

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Since its creation in 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council had resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined.

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There is a strip club in Ontario, Canada that doubles as a church on Sunday.

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Shturmovshchina is Russian for working frantically to meet a deadline, having not done anything for the last month.

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Juries in the U.S. are often 12 in number as that was the number of Christian Apostles.

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The sign for the female sex (♀) represents the hand mirror of Aphrodite, the greek goddess of beauty.

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According to a study, men who express anger are more likely to influence their peers, while the opposite is true for women.

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In Ancient Rome, women donated their hair for use as military catapult elastic.

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Chuck Berry had a degree in hairdressing.

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Humans share the planet with as many as 8.7 million different forms of life, scientists estimate.

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John Williams has never seen any of the Star Wars movies he composed the music for.

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More people in America own more than 10 guns than there are people in the whole of Denmark.

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Serbia is home to the

World Testicle Cooking Championships.

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California was named after a fictional island in a 16th-century romance novel.

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Actress Carrie Fisher once delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory Hollywood producer who assaulted her friend.

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Before he became an actor, Clint Eastwood survived a plane crash, avoided jellyfish, and swam to shore.

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Researchers in Norway published a psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction in 2012.

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In 2005, an American woman lost $400,000 to Nigerian internet fraudsters, who promised her several million dollars from a long-lost relative. The money came from remortgaging her home and her husband's retirement savings.

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In 1980, 4 out of 5 employees in the U.S. got health insurance through their jobs. Now, just over half of them do.

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