1. When Thomas Edison was confined to a wheelchair in the last years of his life, his friend Henry Ford bought one too, so that they could have wheelchair races.
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  2. Bill Gates has sold most of his Microsoft shares and entrusts the investment of most of his money to one man, Michael Larson of Cascade Investment.
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  3. Elon Musk proposed his second wife after 10 days together. They divorced 2 years later, remarried the following year, filed for divorce again, withdrew the filing, re-filed for divorce and finally followed through with it.
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  4. Bumblebees were originally called Humblebees until about the mid 20th Century.
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  5. The U.S. Navy has 3,700 aircraft, making it the second largest air force in the world.
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  6. There are more than 40 airports in Antarctica.
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  7. Leonardo Da Vinci was the first person to observe the curvature of the human spine. Until then everyone had assumed that it was straight.
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  8. The brightest things in the universe are quasars, which can be 429 trillion times brighter than our sun.
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  9. The term influenza comes from the Italian word meaning “influence”, an allusion to the influence the stars were once believed to have on our health.
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  10. The Chinese are the single biggest source of global tourism income.
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  11. In India, where the Taj Mahal and Delhi's Lodhi Gardens and Purana Qila fort have been badly affected,
    graffitists risk up to 1 lakh (about £970) in fines and up to two years in jail.
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  12. A study suggests that owning a dog reduces the likelihood of depression by 3 times in patients with HIV, which can result in improved patient adherence to potentially lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART).
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  13. The Chinese Government controls the central heating for every home in Beijing.
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  14. Within only 2,000 years of humanity's arrival in the New World, indigenous peoples drove to extinction 84 of the Americas' 107 genera of large mammals.
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  15. Tokyo is the city with the most millionaires in the world but London has the most multi-millionaires and New York the most billionaires.
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  16. Gangster John Gotti had his neighbors' body dissolved in a 55 gallon drum of acid for accidentally running over and killing Gotti's 12-year-old son.
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  17. The actor who played young Forrest Gump ended up enlisting in the U.S. Army and going into combat, just like his character.
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  18. In the United States, airlines pay a maximum of $3,300 for a lost bag.
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  19. The New Zealand badminton team was nicknamed
    ‘the Black Cocks', but had to drop it after complaints.
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  20. The name "United Nations" was Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea. He rushed to tell Winston Churchill, who was towelling himself stark naked in his bathroom.
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  21. The state of Rio Grande do Sul has only 5% of Brazil's population but provides 70% of its fashion models.
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  22. "Bird" was originally spelled "brid."
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  23. Deliveries by pigeon post during the Second World War were 95% successful.
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  24. Skateboards were banned in Norway between 1978 and 1989.
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  25. At 21, Mussolini was homeless and living under a bridge in Switzerland.
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  26. 20 minutes spent on the London Underground's Northern Line is as bad for your lungs as smoking a cigarette.
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  27. The average English-speaker has about 50,000 words in their mind and finds the right one in 600 milliseconds.
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  28. In 2013, Los Angeles became the first major city in the world to install traffic lights that make automatic adjustments based on car flow, reducing travel time.
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  29. Elvis Presley wore a cross, a star of David and the Hebrew letter chai because he didn't want to "miss out on heaven due to a technicality."
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  30. Actor Willem Dafoe was expelled from high school for shooting a pornographic film.
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