1. The 100 richest people in the world earned enough money in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times.
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  2. When the Spice Girls first met Nelson Mandela in 1997, he joked: "This is one of the greatest moments of my life."
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  3. There are approximately 1,600 pizza restaurants in New York City.
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  4. Ovarian cancer is linked to the use of Johnson and Johnson's talc-based Baby Powder.
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  5. Over 900 streets in the United States are named after Martin Luther King Jr.
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  6. According to NASA, it would cost about US$18,000 to send a letter to Mars.
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  7. Sanskrit has 96 words
    for "love"
    ancient Persian has 80
    and English only one.
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  8. 20%
    of all women in London during the 1700s were prostitutes.
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  9. The last words Abraham Lincoln heard were "you sockdologizing old man-trap," a punchline from the play "Our American Cousin."
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  10. Left-handed people process things faster than righties while playing computer games or sports.
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  11. Leonardo Da Vinci was the illegitimate son
    of a wealthy Florentine legal notary and a peasant.
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  12. The White House Correspondent's Dinner was men-only until 1962, when JFK refused to attend unless women did.
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  13. Facebook offers 4 months of paid parental leave to new fathers who work for the company.
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  14. Iran sentences its citizens to the death penalty if they decide to change their religion from Islam.
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  15. Over 500 girls have been named Hermione since the first 'Harry Potter' movie came out.
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  16. Lake Michigan is so clear after winter, you can see shipwrecks from the sky.
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  17. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to die of an overdose.
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  18. No one knows what Christopher Columbus looked like. No authentic contemporary portraits of him were found. Most just reconstructed his appearance from written descriptions.
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  19. Barack Obama's late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government.
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  20. Women undergoing abortion after 18 weeks gestation sometimes give birth to a fetus that may survive briefly. It happens in about 4 per 100,000 abortions.
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  21. Germany was the first country ever to implement Daylight Saving Time in order to save energy during WW1.
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  22. Most of a sperm whale's head is filled with a fatty, yellow tissue called "junk."
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  23. The chemical element Uranium, discovered in 1789, was named after the newly discovered planet Uranus.
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  24. Scientists believe cats are afraid of water because their ancestors lived in an area with very few large bodies of water and never had to learn how to swim.
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  25. There are about 1,500 active volcanoes in the world.
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  26. Venezuela's name comes from the Italian word "Veneziola" (little Venice). Explorer Amerigo Vespucci saw native stilt houses built in Lake Maracaibo, reminding him of Venice.
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  27. The population of Ireland still hasn't recovered from the famine of 1845-1852. It was at 8 million before the famine and is at 6.5 million today.
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  28. During WW2, India produced the largest volunteer Army in world history: over 2.5 million men. At least 38 Indians received the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.
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  29. Hawaii's largest-ever earthquake occurred in 1868 and the aftershocks are still being observed.
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  30. The classic Michael Jackson song "Thriller" was originally titled "Starlight" and had the same melody, but different lyrics.
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