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An Indian woman who lost her leg after being thrown from a moving train became the first female amputee to climb Mount Everest in 2013.

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90%

of doctors believe working while sick could cause harm. But 83% do it anyway, a survey found.

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You are more likely to die as a drug dealer in Chicago than as a death row inmate in Texas.

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The World's Oldest Sperm was discovered in Antarctica: 50-million-year-old sperm cells from a worm.

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John F. Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957, although much of the book was ghostwritten by his aide Theodore Sorensen.

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Peter Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary's
son, climbed Mount Everest in 1990

making the pair the first
father and son to do so.

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In the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.

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In 2002, the comptroller of the City of New York estimated the impact of 9/11 on the city's wealth to be US$30.5 billion.

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Orb spiders mummify their prey before they kill it.

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During his time as a Congressman and later as U.S. President, John F Kennedy donated all of his salary to charity.

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The 15-minute chimes on Big Ben have lyrics: "All through this hour / Lord be my guide / And by Thy power / No foot shall slide."

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The Blue-ringed octopus is one of the world's most venomous marine animals: it can kill you in one bite, there is no antivenom.

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Smoking makes breasts sag faster than normal by breaking down a protein in the skin called elastin, which gives youthful skin its elastic appearance and supports the breast.

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The lead singer of Chicago died after he picked up a 9mm pistol, said, "Don't worry about it... Look, the clip's not even in it," then held it to his head and pulled the trigger.

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Bullying affects nearly 1 in 3 American schoolchildren in grades six through 10.

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The Vatican has its own phone company, radio, T.V. stations, money and stamps.

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Alexander the Great founded 70 cities, naming at least 20 after himself and one after his horse.

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The phrase "God never gives you more than you can handle" never appears in the Bible and actually the opposite is said many times.

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In military terms, D-Day means a date and H-Hour a time for combat operations.

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Uruguay is, by population, the smallest country to win a soccer World Cup.

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There is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called 'Da Jesus Book'.

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There's a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.

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The process of getting torn apart by a black hole is called "Spaghettification".

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An Octopus

doesn't have

8 arms

but 6 arms and 2 legs.

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The mortality rate of a Black Mamba snake bite is almost 100%.

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The attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 resulted in the largest loss of life by a foreign attack on American soil.

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No other country in Europe has as many volcanoes as Italy: the peninsula stands on a fault line.

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The Vatican is the only nation in the world that can lock its own gates at night.

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The Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by his own men during a major American Civil War battle.

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The 2008 Constitution of Ecuador recognized nature as an entity with legally enforceable rights, making it the first country in the world to do so.

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