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David Copperfield has sold 40 million tickets and grossed over US$4 billion, which is more than any other solo entertainer in history.

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Puerto Rico has more American citizens than 21 U.S. states, but can't vote in presidential elections.

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Before criticizing propaganda in his classic novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," George Orwell worked as a propagandist for BBC.

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"El Colacho" is a traditional holiday in Burgos, Spain, where men dressed as the Devil leap over infants who are lying on mattresses in the street.

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If Malaria was eradicated

670,000 deaths

would be avoided

every year.

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Most oysters can live up to 20 years in captivity.

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The world's most expensive wine averages over US$15,000 per bottle.

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If the U.S. got rid of guns, 12,000 deaths and 84,300 injuries would be avoided.

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If the Internet went down for a day, 196 billion emails and 3 billion Google searches would have to wait.

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Life expectancy in the UK was around 47 in 1900; it is now 80.

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Germany is the world capital of penis enlargement, with roughly 8 in 100,000 adult German males opting for the procedure.

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Michael Jackson donated more than US$500 million to charity, a Guinness World Record.

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The toxin in puffer fish is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide.

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Oysters have three-chambered hearts that pump colorless blood throughout their bodies.

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In 1993, Tupac shot two cops and had all the charges dropped on account of the cops drunkenly pointing a stolen gun at pedestrians.

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6 out of 10 teenagers in the U.S. say they witness bullying in school once a day.

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Facebook's first annual Hacker Cup coding challenge was won by a programmer at Google. He showed up at Facebook headquarters to collect his prize wearing his Google employee badge.

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Scientists have created glow-in-the-dark cats by inserting the jellyfish protein that codes for bioluminescence into their genome.

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2% of people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge survive the fall. One man even jumped off for "fun".

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The "No Animals Were Harmed" moniker on movies only applies while film is actually recording.

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Argentina was the first

country in Latin America

to legalize

same-sex marriage in 2010.

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Thomas Jefferson's net worth is measured at about US$212 million in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.

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Adolf Hitler was obsessed with America's Old West.

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1.1 million people died during the four and a half years of Auschwitz's existence.

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There have been serious scientific attempts to study whether or not our "reality" is, in fact, a computer simulation a la "The Matrix."

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The first TV advertisement was broadcasted in 1941 for Bulova watches.

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The whole Harry Potter series contains 199 chapters, 4,224 pages and 1,090,739 words and has been made into 19 hours and 39 minutes of film.

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Los Angeles has the worst traffic of any city in the U.S. and the 10th worst of any city in the world.

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Artist Frida Kahlo was bisexual and cheated his husband with the women that he would cheat on her with.

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Vultures often vomit when threatened or approached. It lightens their stomach load to make take-off easier.

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