1. Germany had highest numbers of asylum requests in 2015.
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  2. Michael Phelps considered suicide after the 2012 Summer Olympics. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation to help other people with mental illness.
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  3. There's a baby called Netflix de Jesús Rodríguez Restrepo in Colombia.
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  4. Lighting hasn't brought down a plane since 1963, due to careful engineering that lets the electric charge of a lightning bolt run through the plane and out of it.
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  5. US$ 22 million
    were earned by 7-year-old YouTube star Ryan, from Toysreview, in 2018.
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  6. Drinking six or more coffees a day can
    increase your risk of heart disease by up to 22%.
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  7. By 2018, the U.S. has 101 people who owe at least $1 million in federal student loans.
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  8. For many Icelanders, WW2 is actually known a “the blessed war" because the country has the war to thank for its independence.
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  9. When Steve Jobs was at his deathbed, he asked for five different oxygen masks so that he could choose the one with the best design.
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  10. The only road out of Equatorial Guinea on the mainland during the mandate of its first president was mined.
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  11. If you want to learn about monsters and ghouls in real life, you can get a PhD in Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh.
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  12. Nearly 40% of the world lived under Marxist governments in the late 20th Century.
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  13. The national anthem of Ukraine is called
    ‘The glory and the freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished'.
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  14. In 1916, there was a proposed Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote. Anyone voting "yes" would have to register as a volunteer for service in the army.
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  15. Spinraza, a drug for spinal muscular atrophy, has a list price of $750,000.
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  16. An IKEA in the Netherlands had to cancel their 1 euro breakfast special because it attracted too many customers and caused traffic jams on the highway.
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  17. All Bran is only 87% bran.
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  18. General Electric is the only company remaining from the original Dow Jones index of 1896.
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  19. As global temperatures rise, flowers are emitting less scent.
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  20. After just under a year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly's gene expression changed significantly and it's different to his identical twin brother's DNA.
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  21. By the end of 2019, Facebook had offices in 70 cities worldwide.
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  22. One of the late Stephen Hawking's widely-accepted theories is that black holes aren't black.
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  23. Amazon's largest warehouse is the size of 17 American football fields.
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  24. 770,000 people living in England cannot speak English well.
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  25. A single human being's DNA contains as much information as fifty novels.
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  26. All galaxies, regardless of size,
    rotate once every billion years.
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  27. Dynamite was originally going to be called 'Nobel's Safety Powder'.
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  28. While filming "The Wizard of Oz," 16-year-old Judy Garland was put on a diet of chicken soup, coffee, and 80 cigarettes a day.
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  29. A report found that the free weights at the gym have 362 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.
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  30. 1.9 million people were working for McDonald's in 2019 and its franchisees around the world.
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