1. 30%
    of all cancers diagnosed in women are breast cancers.
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  2. Americans consume 12.5 teaspoons more sugar each day
    than the American Heart Association recommends.
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  3. A crocodile's jaws can apply 50 times more pressure than a human's jaw.
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  4. The Soviets landed a spacecraft on Venus in 1970. It became the first to land on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth.
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  5. In 1989, Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Mikhail Gorbachev to keep the Berlin Wall up.
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  6. Theodore Roosevelt Jr was the only General involved in the initial assault on D-Day, after insisting to his superiors to be one of the first ones off the boats. He survived, then died of a heart attack one month later.
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  7. Two zebras died of hunger in a zoo in Palestine and were replaced with donkeys painted with black and white stripes.
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  8. At the age of 11, Benjamin Franklin invented a pair of swim fins. He was later recognized by his induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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  9. There's a Native American tribe still living at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
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  10. The 'intense world theory of autism' suggests that autistic people shut down because they experience and feel too much.
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  11. Martin Luther King Jr. was a huge Star Trek fan.
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  12. A complete revolution around the Sun takes about 365 days and 6 hours. That's why our Gregorian calendar has a leap day.
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  13. Estonian ID cards have a chip with public-private key pair used to sign documents and vote in elections via the internet. For their 2011 election, 24% of the votes were cast online.
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  14. Barack Obama had the most followers on Twitter of any world leader in his last year in power, 2016.
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  15. In 2008, a chimpanzee named Anjana adopted and raised two baby white tigers named Mitra and Shiva after a hurricane.
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  16. At least 55 people have
    accidentally fallen
    from the rim of the Grand Canyon
    to their death.
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  17. The ancient pyramids of Giza are located right up against the modern city of Cairo.
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  18. The doctor who claimed a link between vaccines and autism, Andrew Wakefield, created fraudulent data for his paper and lost his medical license as a result.
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  19. Astronauts aboard Apollo 10 heard unexplained "outer spacey" music while orbiting the dark side of the moon.
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  20. Musk, used in high-end perfume, was originally an animal secretion that smells like urine.
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  21. Martin Luther King Jr. received a C+ in public speaking at seminary school.
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  22. Ostriches and zebras often live together to protect each other from predators. The ostrich can see better and the zebra can hear or smell danger better.
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  23. The average American spends US$ 7,852 on food every year.
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  24. Ancient Romans ran cold aqueduct water in pipes through their houses in an early form of air conditioning.
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  25. Koalas, Iguanas, Komodo dragons and
    most marsupials have a bifurcated penis.
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  26. About half of Americans born at the turn of the 20th century had blue eyes. Today, only about 1 in 6 Americans has them.
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  27. The U.S. has more museums than Starbucks and McDonald's locations combined.
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  28. In 1963, Albert Heineken created a beer bottle that could also be used as a brick to build sustainable housing in impoverished countries.
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  29. Christopher Columbus thought that the world was shaped like a woman's breast.
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  30. Barack Obama won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, "Dreams From My Father."
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