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In North Korea, people don't celebrate birthdays on July 8 and December 17, since those are the dates that Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il died.

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Paris taxi drivers have to pay nearly 200,000 euros for their licenses. That's why there are so few.

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Almost a third of Americans work on the weekend.

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In Mozambique, overhead power lines have to be at least 12 m (39 ft) high to permit safe passage of giraffes.

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Cockroaches can make group decisions. When 50 cockroaches are presented with 3 shelters that can only house 40, they'll split evenly into two groups and leave one shelter empty.

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There's an Owl on the dollar bill.

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The at-sign, @, is not a modern invention. It has been found on documents as far back as the year 1345.

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of Germany's population is genetically immune to HIV.

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The longest recorded

marriage

lasted

91 years and 12 days.

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40% of American women surveyed claimed they got more emotional support from their pet than from their husbands or their children.

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While shooting "The Blues Brothers" movie, they had a budget for cocaine.

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18 people were rescued alive from the rubble of the WTC after 9/11.

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Desertification threatens the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people in 110 countries, the U.N. says.

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An Apple iPhone 6 CPU has 625 times more transistors than a 1995 Pentium.

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Men sweat up to twice as much as women.

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In 2012, Nevada became the first state to issue licenses for self-driving cars.

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More than half of all Americans have one or more allergies.

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Fetuses don't develop fingerprints until 3 months' gestation.

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An apple didn't hit Isaac Newton in the head, but it did make him wonder if the force that makes apples fall influences the moon's motion around Earth.

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Someone who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh a whopping 354 pounds on Jupiter.

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Tsunamis can go as fast as a jetliner's cruising speed: up to 800 kilometers per hour (500 mph).

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When building the Golden Gate Bridge, the lead structural engineer insisted on the installation of a safety net at an exorbitant cost of US$130,000. It saved 19 workers.

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IKEA consumes

1% of the Earth's

wood supply

every year.

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A rare Apple-1 computer built in Steve Jobs' garage in the summer of 1976 was sold at an auction in 2014 for US$905,000.

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Portland is home to more strip clubs per capita than anywhere else in the U.S.

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Demand for quinoa in Western nations has pushed up prices so much that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia , where quinoa is from, can no longer afford their staple crop.

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Karl Marx and his wife Jenny named all four of their daughters "Jenny".

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Miami has never recorded a temperature over 100°F (37°C).

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There is a limit of 12 minutes of commercials, per hour of television, in the UK.