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In 2013, a parent filed a bullying report on a Texas high school football coach for beating his son's team 91-0.

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In 2010, some schools in southern California banned a dictionary for including a definition of oral sex.

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Around 6% of people have narcissistic personality disorder. They have a strong sense of self-importance and lack empathy.

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Contrary to popular belief,

Coffee does not

dehydrate you,

studies have found.

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One "dog year" is not equivalent to 7 human years. Dogs age at various rates, depending on their size.

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When George Washington was elected president, no one knew what to call him. No other nation had ever elected a president.

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In 1973, the crew of Skylab 4 staged the first strike in space. They requested time off to "look out the window and think."

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Isaac Newton developed a sunlight phobia from staring at the sun.

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Rainbows are actually Circular. We don't typically see a full circle rainbow because the Earth's horizon blocks the lower part.

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The largest functional Rubik's Cube has 22x22 squares on each face.

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Crocodiles can live from 30 to 75 years.

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A woman's risk of breast cancer approximately doubles if she has a first-degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) who has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Many American Civil War soldiers had "nostalgia" listed as their cause of death, meaning homesickness.

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Peanuts are not nuts.
They are legumes.

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President Roosevelt collapsed while being painted. He never regained consciousness before dying. The unfinished painting captures his last waking moment.

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The smallest wage gap between men and women is to be found in New Zealand: under 5%.

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Iran sentences its citizens to the death penalty on cases of corruption.

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While you sleep, your brain filters out noises that might wake you up if it doesn't think you're in danger.

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An egg that is old or bad will float in water, while fresh eggs will sink in water.

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Billy Bob Thornton cheated on Angelina Jolie with the therapist he was seeing about his sex addiction.

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Men with Down syndrome are sterile and cannot father children, except for a few documented cases.

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Prostitution is illegal in Israel, yet 12,000 women work in the sex trade, along with roughly 1,000 men.

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The largest recorded earthquake in the U.S. was a magnitude 9.2 that struck Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1964.

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Martin Luther King Jr. spent his wedding night in a funeral home, since there were no honeymoon suites for African-Americans.

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Homosexuality and abortion were decriminalised in Russia under Lenin's leadership.

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In 1972, a pocket of uranium in Africa was found to have undergone self-sustaining nuclear fission for hundreds of thousands of years, making it the only known naturally formed nuclear reactor.

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A nanometre is about as much as your nails grows every second.

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Dennis Rodman's father had 29 children with 16 different women.

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In 2014, a student in Taiwan went blind after keeping her contact lenses in for 6 months. A microscopic bug ate her eyeballs.