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Nutella has very few hazelnuts. It is 58% sugar and is 32% fat, most of which is palm oil.

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In 2015, a tiny Tokyo restaurant with only 9 seats became the first ramen restaurant in the world to obtain a Michelin star.

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While 71% of Americans believe in hell, only 0.5% think that they are likely to end up there, a survey found.

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Prostitutes in the Netherlands pay taxes.

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In the European Union you are not allowed to skip your break if you are working more than 6 hours a day.

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Since 1875, the exact weight of a kilogram has been defined by the International Prototype of the Kilogram, a cylinder that sits locked in an environmentally regulated vault outside Paris. Every 40 years, it's removed and compared to a half-dozen copies around the world.

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Harold Stassen, a former governor of Minnesota, sought the U.S. Republican Party's Presidential Nomination 9 times.

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Under Apartheid in South Africa, Filipinos were classified as black while Chinese were considered "non-white" and Japanese, Taiwanese and Koreans were "honorary whites."

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Bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest.

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A man called Michael Nicholson enrolled in school for 55 years straight, earning 30 degrees.

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In 2012, the world's first lab grown burger cost $325,000. By 2015, a lab grown burger only cost $11.36.

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Across all the European countries fighting in WWII, only three national capitals were never occupied: Moscow, London and Helsinki.

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Chuck Norris' real name is Carlos Ray Norris.

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Mozart kept a diary of every incident when he heard someone fart.

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Hundreds of Jews from Amsterdam were fined for being late with their rent during their incarceration in World War II concentration camps.

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La Sagrada Familia, in Spain, will take longer to complete than the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

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There is a common Chinese idiom that states, "The ugly wife is a treasure at home."

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A sapiosexual is a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence in others.

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Kummerspeck (‘grief bacon') is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.

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The London Underground trains were originally steam powered.

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The U.S. Embassy in Moscow caught fire in 1977. Sensitive information was stolen by several firefighters who were also KGB agents.

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Spain has more tourists than residents. 75 million people visited Spain in 2016, while only 46 million people live there.

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In 2012, a cat named Orlando beat top investment bankers in a year long investment competition, which he chose by throwing his favorite mouse toy at a grid to select companies to invest in.

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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided that tomatoes were vegetables.

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin's first question when he met President Clinton in 1995: "Do you think O.J. did it?"

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Anyone over 14 can drive a VSP car in France without a licence.

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The last Beatles song was recorded in 1995. The three surviving members reunited to complete an unfinished John Lennon single, "Real Love."

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A German officer in WWII ordered his soldiers to hold fire to allow the rescue of an American soldier who stepped on a landmine. When no one came, the officer went to rescue the soldier but stepped on a landmine himself.

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Earl Wild, the first person to play the piano on U.S. television was also the first to stream a performance on the Internet 58 year later.

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At the 1932 Olympics, the 3,000-metre steeplechase was run over 3,460 metres because an official lost count of the number of laps.

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