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In 1994, a 75-pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime watch meeting.

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The entire student body of the University of Mississippi enlisted for the American Civil War. They suffered a 100% casualty rate.

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The first Frenchman known to visit Japan was imprisoned, tortured and killed because he tried to promote Christianity.

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Cats share 95.6% of their DNA with tigers.

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Lying flat on your back is your best bet for surviving a falling elevator.

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Steve Jobs claimed that taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in his life.

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Cancers are primarily an environmental disease with 90 - 95% of cases attributed to environmental factors and 5 - 10% due to genetics.

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California uses inmates to fight forest fires. Prisoners take the jobs because it reduces their sentence, gets them outside, and pays better than typical prison jobs.

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There's a city

in Brazil called

"Nao-Me-Toque"

meaning "Don't Touch Me."

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Landlocked Bolivia maintains a
standing navy, in preparation

for the day it reconquers coastline
lost to Chile in the 19th Century.

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The Liberty Bell and Big Ben were cast by the same bell foundry and both bells are cracked.

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The last person who died at the Berlin Wall attempted to escape in a hot air balloon but fell to his death.

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Benjamin Franklin never patented any of his inventions. He reasoned that "we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."

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Russians take guns into space to protect themselves against bears if they land off-course.

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Horseshoe crab blood is worth US$15,000/L, due to its ability to detect bacteria.

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Australia is the only Western country in the world to not have a Bill of Rights.

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If Apple didn't hold US$181 billion overseas, it would owe US$59 billion in U.S. taxes.

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There is just one insect native to Antarctica, the Belgica Antarctica.

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Anne Frank wrote in her famous diary, "When I write I can shake off all my cares. (...) But (...) will I ever be able to write something great?"

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Julius Caesar was pronounced 'YOO-lee-us KYE-sahr' in ancient Rome.

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Alexander the Great was not much admired in his lifetime, and was seen by many as a drunken tyrant.

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Providing birth control to women at no cost substantially reduced unplanned pregnancies and cut abortion rates by 62% to 78% over the U.S. national rate, a study found.

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The top 10% of American alcohol consumers ingest about 10 drinks per day.

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37% of the Argentine population are of Italian descent, about 12,8 million people.

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In 2002, a 15-year-old boy, inspired by 9/11, stole an airplane and flew it into a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. He was the only death.

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41%

of all amphibian species are at the brink of extinction.

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Steven Spielberg completed his degree course, 33 years after dropping out, by submitting Schindler's List as his final project.

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The entirety of the world's population would fit into a city the size of Texas if the population density was the same as New York.

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Cockroaches can run on two legs, and that they can reach speeds of almost 5 feet per second.

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Open up a conversation in Facebook Messenger and type @fbchess play to start a game of chess with a friend.

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