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Many Americans can buy a gun in less than an hour while in other countries, the process takes months.

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A whole orange will float on water, but a peeled orange will sink.

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The Mandarin word for ‘film' literally translates as ‘electric shadow'.

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In South Africa, white people own 72% of the country's farmland, even though they're 8% of the population.

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John F. Kennedy's Eternal Flame in Arlington National Cemetery has only gone out twice since 1963.

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Nearly two-thirds of Americans can't pass a basic test of financial literacy.

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Iceland is so safe that parents routinely leave their babies alone to nap outside in their strollers while they run errands.

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Male layer chicks don't produce eggs nor do they have enough meat on their bodies for eating, so they are killed immediately by egg producers after hatching.

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A study found that a man named Robin Gunningham is probably the street artist Banksy, based on geographic profiling of Banksy's artwork.

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Francisci Macías Nguema, first President of Equatorial Guinea, who once had about 150 of his opponents executed on Christmas Eve by Soldiers dressed in Santa Claus outfits at the football stadium in Malabo.

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Jimmy Carter said that, if he became president, he would release all government UFO information to the public. Once elected, however, he decided not to due to "national security concerns."

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Hundreds of people gathered in Australia in 2018 to say “wow”, in the actor Owen Wilson's style.

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While filming the movie "Entebbe," about a plane being hijacked, a plane was actually hijacked and landed at the airport. They filmed the real hostages being released and edited it into the movie.

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Richard Nixon was an accomplished musician who could play the piano, accordion, violin, saxophone, and clarinet.

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The Moon gets hit by over 6,000 pounds (2800 kg) of meteor material per day.

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A study found that orcas can learn to speak dolphin.

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Researchers have found that muscle soreness after a workout doesn't necessarily mean you're growing more muscle.

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Vicodin's name is based on it being approximately six (VI is 6 in roman numerals) times stronger than codeine.

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In 1494, Michelangelo at the age of 19 was commissioned by the ruler of Florence to sculpt a snowman in his mansion's courtyard.

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Canada's national parks are free for kids.

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33% of the bread produced in the UK is wasted, compared with 6% of the alcohol.

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On average, the Japanese sleep two hours a night less than the Chinese.

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An elderly woman slept through the People's Temple mass suicide in Jonestown. She woke up the next morning to discover the bodies of over 900 members of the cult.

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Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album was on the Billboard charts for a total of 741 consecutive weeks from 1973 to 1988.

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A study found that those who consider their spouse or partner to be their best friend get about twice as much life satisfaction from marriage as others.

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When the U.S. half-cent was discontinued in 1857 for not having enough buying power, it was worth about the same as a modern U.S. dime.

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Prisoners on Alcatraz always had hot showers so they didn't get acclimatised to cold water and try to escape by swimming.

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Las Vegas airport has set up a bin outside one of the entrances for people who forgot they were carrying drugs on them.

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Brain scans reveal that, compared to introverts, extroverts show increased activity in the areas associated with interpreting sensory data.