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Milk stored in the freezer will stay safe for consumption indefinitely.

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Vincent Van Gogh's last words were, "The sadness will last forever."

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Despite their walnut-sized brain, octopuses are highly intelligent, possibly more so than any other order of invertebrates.

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The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, if both were the same size.

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70%

of Tasmanian devils have died since 1996 due to a contagious facial cancer with a 100% fatality rate.

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Up To 77% Of Viagra Bought Online May Be Fake, And Possibly Dangerous, a 2013 Research Found.

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On Earth, the International Space Station weighs 925,000 pounds, more than 11 full semi trucks. In space, it weighs almost nothing.

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In the UK, nearly 1 in 10 couples are ethnically mixed.

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The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by enema, was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments until the 19th century.

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There are more phone calls placed on Mother's Day than any other day of the year.

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Atheists and Agnostics in the U.S. are one of the highest scoring groups when it comes to general religious knowledge, a survey found.

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The first commercial telefax service was introduced in 1865, some 11 years before the invention of telephones.

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The word "set"

has over 100 definitions.

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In 1969, NASA possessed the technology to land on the moon but not the technology to fake the moon landings.

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Octopuses move with a simple elegance, but they have no rhythm, unlike most animals.

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People who work 11 hours or more a day are 67% more likely to have a heart attack than people with an 8-hour work day, according to a study.

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44%

of the people who didn't evacuate for Hurricane Katrina stayed because they didn't want to abandon their pets.

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It's been over 30 years since we had a cooler-than-average month.

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More than 60% of Bolivia's citizens are indigenous, predominantly Quechua and Aymara.

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English is Louis C.K.'s second language. He was raised in Mexico and exclusively spoke Spanish until age seven.

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In 1999, Norway granted refuge to a U.S. drug smuggler because the Supreme Court declared that U.S. prisons do not meet "minimum humanitarian standards."

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A baby is born on its predicted due date just 4% of the time.

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The cost of college in the U.S. went up 500% from 1985 to 2013.

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The Eiffel Tower was almost temporarily relocated to Canada in 1967.

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New Yorkers spent 74 hours of their lives in traffic jams in 2014.

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The fork came to Italy before any other European country because of pasta.

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You can see underwater sea life, coral reefs and wrecks using Google Maps.

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Polar bears are nearly invisible under infrared photography.

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The Emperor of Japan is the only remaining monarch in the world reigning under the title of "Emperor".