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Only deceased people can appear on U.S. currency.

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If you spent one day on each of the islands in the Phillippines, it would take you almost 21 years to visit them all.

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Tokyo has been destroyed from earthquakes and tsunamis from 1608 to 1945, on average, once every five years.

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A plane crashed in 1972, killing 101 people, because the crew was distracted by a a burnt-out landing gear indicator light. They failed to notice that the autopilot had inadvertently been disconnected.

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The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, when fighting fishermen, can have such high bursts of muscle activity that they cook their own flesh.

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As many as 60 tribes remain largely uncontacted in the Amazon, or live in voluntary isolation.

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It was to Western Union that Alexander Graham Bell and his co-inventors first took their patent for the telephone. But its chairman said it was "nothing but a toy".

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After 74 years of production,

Kodak stopped selling 35mm colour film in 2009.

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"The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer's block" is the shortest academic article ever: it has no words.

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Norway's Bouvet Island was discovered in 1739, then lost again for another 69 years.

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A cow-smuggling tunnel was discovered in 2017 under the India–Pakistan border.

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A grain of sand officially measures between 0.06 and 2 millimetres across.

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Butterflies use their tongues like drinking straws.

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The world's largest Spanish-speaking country is Mexico, followed by the U.S.

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California accounted for nearly half of the U.S. solar electricity generating capacity in 2015.

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There is a note in the end credits of "Frozen" stating that Disney does not support the consumption of boogers.

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Human DNA begins to degenerate at 55 years old.

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Norwegian scientists are aiming to collect milk teeth from 100,000 children in the hopes of detecting links between prenatal and childhood chemical exposure and diseases later in life.

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The Mayans drilled holes in their teeth to fit semi-precious stones in.

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Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, spent 10 years of his life programming an operating system to "talk to God."

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Hitler's home phone number and address was listed in Who's Who book until 1945. It was Wilhelmstraße 77, Berlin.

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In 2009, Billy Joel's daughter tried to commit suicide by taking a bunch of homeopathic pills. She survived.

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The last survivor removed from the WTC collapse debris in 9/11 was found in the ruins of the North Tower 27 hours after its collapse.

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Steve Wozniak put a fake bomb in a locker during high school and spent the night in a juvenile detention center where he taught prisoners how to disconnect the ceiling fan wires and connect them to bars so it would shock people on touch.

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In 2015, two con men sold a fake Goya painting for €1.5 million, only to find out that all the money was counterfeit.

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Sending parents text messages about their children's schoolwork can lead to improved academic performance, a study found.

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Looney Tunes was created to promote Warner Brother's music catalog in the 1930s. That's why it's "Tunes" and not "Toons."

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70% of millionaires surveyed do not consider themselves "wealthy."

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Queen Elizabeth II has 4 drinks a day: a gin before lunch, a wine during lunch, a dry martini with dinner, and a glass of champagne following dinner

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TV show Seinfeld wasn't actually a "show about nothing," it was a show about how comedians get their material.

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