1. Liechtenstein has just 7 people in prison.
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  2. In South India, people roll over food leftovers served to Brahmins in the belief that all troubles and ailments will be cured.
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  3. In 2001, Pope John Paul II entered and prayed in a mosque and even kissed the Qur'an to improve relations with Islam.
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  4. The NAZIs considered Native Americans to be part of the Aryan race.
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  5. Each day, up to 4 billion meteoroids fall to Earth.
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  6. Fur and hair are essentially the same thing, constructed of identical protein building blocks called keratin.
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  7. There are 16,000 recognized species of bees.
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  8. 359 years after the Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei to recant his theory that the Earth moves around the Sun, it declared he was right in 1992.
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  9. An average adult's skin spans 21 square feet (2 m2) and weighs 9 pounds (4 kg).
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  10. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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  11. Diamonds are not forever. Under very high heat, they turn into graphite, the stuff of pencils.
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  12. A grizzly bear has to eat almost 20,000 calories a day.
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  13. 1 in 5
    top 100 country songs
    will refer to
    alcohol.
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  14. The letter combination "USA" is banned on Saudi Arabian license plates.
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  15. Charles Darwin suffered from panic disorder and agoraphobia.
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  16. GPS is owned and controlled by the U.S. Government. It can be 'switched off' at any time.
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  17. Drug lord Pablo Escobar had a prison built to his specifications and to choose his own guards. It featured a soccer field, a giant doll house, a bar, jacuzzi and a waterfall.
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  18. City of Industry, California,
    has a population of 219
    but is home to
    80,000 jobs.
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  19. Alaska is so big you could fit 75 New Jerseys in it.
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  20. Grizzly bears have a bite-force of over 8,000,000 pascals, enough to crush a bowling ball.
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  21. Inca architecture was built to be earthquake resistant. Inca masonry is effective in withstanding even major tremors.
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  22. During the Vietnam War, American troops would eat small amounts of C4 plastic explosive to get high.
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  23. There's a direct descendant of Christopher Columbus alive today. He's a Spanish noble.
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  24. Richard Johnson, the 9th Vice-President of the U.S., openly treated an African-American woman as his wife, although legally she was his slave.
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  25. The scientific name of the llama is "lama glama."
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  26. In Judaism, there's a blessing thanking God for having the ability to excrete.
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  27. Instagram banned the tags #curvy #sex and #nude as they violate their nudity guidelines.
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  28. Several long-duration Russian cosmonauts have reported that months after coming back to Earth, they occasionally let go objects in mid-air, still expecting them to float.
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  29. The fastest ascent from base camp to the summit of Mount Everest took just 8 hours and 10 minutes.
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  30. In 1962, John F Kennedy secretly installed a taping system in the White House.
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