1. The world's oldest yacht club is the Royal Cork Yacht Club which opened in Ireland in 1720.
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  2. Only 6% of people work in the profession they aspired to in childhood, a study in Spain found.
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  3. Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up the Parliament in order to start a Catholic government, not to put England in a state of anarchy.
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  4. While less than 5 percent of the
    world's population lives in the U.S.,
    they consume almost 37%
    of the world's cocaine.
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  5. Each tree can absorb 4.8 pounds of CO2. In a year, an acre of trees absorbs equal the amount of CO2 produced by driving a car 26,000 miles.
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  6. There are 4 states in the U.S. that ban oral sex but allow necrophilia.
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  7. The number of H2O molecules
    in 10 drops of water
    are equal to the number of
    all the stars in the universe.
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  8. Ronald Reagan
    was the only
    U.S. president
    to have been divorced.
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  9. The average person in France sleeps 8.83 hours per day, the most in the developed world.
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  10. In middle school, 74% of girls express interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, but when choosing a college major, just 0.4% of high school girls select computer science.
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  11. During WW1, New Zealand raised an army of 100,000 men, about 10% of its population.
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  12. Cuba was caught sending Weapons to North Korea in 2013.
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  13. Benjamin Franklin
    invented
    the bifocals eyeglasses
    in 1784.
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  14. The company that owned the WTC had scheduled a meeting for 9/11/2001 on Tower 1 to discuss what to do in the event of a terrorist attack, but rescheduled the night before because someone couldn't attend.
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  15. Before his passing, George Washington had become opposed to slavery, and in his will he ordered his 300 slaves to be freed after his wife's death.
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  16. In 2013, two physicist managed to
    "tie" water into knots.
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  17. 51% of Americans fear snakes, most than any other thing in the world.
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  18. 90% of all wine produced in the world is meant to be consumed within a year or two from when it's made —an older wine is not always better.
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  19. There's a nightclub inside a prison in Venezuela.
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  20. A survey found that almost 9% of Americans fear zombies, which don't even exist.
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  21. 56% of Germans and 52% of Britons believe that aliens exist, according to a survey.
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  22. The first online transaction ever was
    Stanford students buying marijuana from MIT students.
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  23. The naked mole rat is unable to feel pain, is the only known thermoconforming mammal, is resistant to cancer, and possesses extraordinary longevity for a rodent.
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  24. There are approximately
    3.04 trillion trees on earth.
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  25. After 3 months in the womb, a fetus already has a preference for which hand it uses the most.
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  26. Two tablespoons of honey would be enough to fuel a bee's entire flight around the world.
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  27. If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, only 28 people would live on the island.
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  28. Tuberculosis killed 1.5 million people worldwide in 2014, making it a larger cause of death than AIDS.
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  29. Miami is the only major U.S. city that was founded by a woman.
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  30. 80% of volcanic eruptions happen underwater.
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