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Rihanna has officially sold more digital singles than any other artist ever.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The United States is obliged to go to war for 67 different countries should the situation arise, thanks to decades of complicated treaties.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Once a year, the Prince of Liechtenstein invites the residents of his tiny country to have a beer in the garden of his castle.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Octopuses have copper-based blood instead of iron-based blood, which is why their blood is blue rather than red.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In classical Athens, the punishment for sleeping with another man's wife was to be publicly sodomized with a spicy radish.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In the UK, it is illegal to ride a hoverboard scooter in public.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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819,105 Americans claim at least one Cherokee ancestor.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are more guns than people in the United States.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The probability of two whole fingerprints matching is around 1 in 64 billion.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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We collectively spend over 3 billion hours a week playing online games.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1981, the first commercial GPS receiver weighed 50 pounds and cost over US$100,000.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Once a dog hits the age of 10, its chance of dying from cancer is 50%.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Since 1940, about 85% of those who have attempted to break the water speed record have died in the attempt.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The sun is the most perfectly round natural object known in the universe.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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No M1 Abrams tank has ever been destroyed by an enemy tank.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Cacti are native to the Americas.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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15% of iPhone users in the U.S. use an iPhone with a broken screen.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There is a persistent storm at Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Lightning storms occur for about 10 hours a night, 140 to 160 nights a year, for a total of about 1.2 million lightning discharges per year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A San Francisco Highway Patrol Officer, called Kevin Briggs, has talked approximately 200 people out of suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge since 1994.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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When George Washington
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Iquitos, Peru is the largest city in the world inaccessible by road. It's located deep in the Amazon rainforest and has over 400,000 people.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The bonobo monkey, the closest relative to humans, is naturally bisexual.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The common basilisk is also known as the "Jesus Christ Lizard" for its ability to run on the surface of water.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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USPS mail carriers are attacked by 6000 dogs per year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Outer space begins at 100 kilometers (62 mi) above sea level.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The British Empire at its height was larger than Africa and was even comparable in size to the Moon.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Children and wives whose fathers failed to meet rubber collection quotas in the Belgian Congo were often punished by having their hands cut off.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Nintendo has such a large cash reserve it could lose US$250 million every year and wouldn't go bankrupt until 2052.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
