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The first refrigerator used ether and ammonia to cool its contents.

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All champagne is produced in the Champagne region in France. Otherwise it is called sparkling wine.

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Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing-card company.

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Coco Chanel was raised by nuns in a convent orphanage, where she learned to sew.

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60-80% of people who have lost a limb report having phantom sensations throughout their lives.

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Only about 15% of the Sahara Desert is covered in sand.

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Between 25% and 40% of all mentally ill Americans will be jailed or incarcerated at some point in their lives.

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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, was the first American president to be born in a hospital.

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Newborn dogs are born blind and deaf. Most puppies open their eyes and respond to noises after about two weeks.

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You're more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas than find in-person voter fraud.

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There are more people in slavery today than at any time in human history.

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Mobile Phone Throwing is an official sport in Finland.

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Powerful people spend less time deliberating over what to put in an email, a study found.

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The film "Birdman" was shot in just 30 days .

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There have been more than 2,600 serial killers in the U.S. since 1900.

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The rock at the summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone and would have been deposited on the seafloor around 450 million years ago.

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The word 'Buddha' is a title, which means 'one who is awake', in the sense of having ‘woken up to reality'.

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Most Hindus say Euthanasia interrupts the timing of the cycle of rebirth and both the doctor and patient will take on bad karma as a result.

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Already in 1985, Mother Teresa opened a hospice in New York for AIDS victims.

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The movie "Titanic" won 11 Oscars, but none for acting.

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During WW2, the lights of Big Ben were dimmed so that German bombers could not use it for reference.

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Some oysters, such as Eastern, change their genders based on environmental, nutritional, and physiological stresses, and sometimes annually.

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A cat's tail contains nearly 10% of all the bones in its body.

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Millionaire Michael O'Leary, CEO of airline Ryanair, has his own taxicab company with just one cab so he can legally use the bus lanes and avoid traffic jams.

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9/11 was not the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. A bombing in February of 1993 killed six people.

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97%

of dieters in the U.S. regain the weight they lost and then some within 3 years.

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The world's second "smartest" man has an IQ of 192 and has spent many years as a stripper, bar bouncer and nude model.

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Michigan State University will identify any insect, arthropod, plant, or weed for free if you send a picture of the specimen via email.

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John F. Kennedy, had he lived, would have inherited a fortune from his father estimated at US$1 billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.

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Mexico is named after its capital

Mexico City, not the other way around.

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