1. If you're in Iceland beware of the phrase 'I will find you on a beach': this idiom (or threat) means, ' I'll get my revenge,' or 'don't make me hurt you.'
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  2. 85 million years before butterflies existed, there was another insect that looked and acted exactly like a butterfly.
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  3. Potato aphids will not have sex if they detect a drop in air pressure.
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  4. A party boat carrying sixty men and women capsized in Texas in 2012 after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
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  5. 94% of the women surveyed who work in the U.S. entertainment industry say they've experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault.
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  6. Warren Buffet won a ten-year bet about index funds outperforming hedge funds.
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  7. The only difference between fog and mist is visibility: if you can't see more than 100 metres ahead, it's fog, not mist.
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  8. Prior to 1868, eating meat from four legged animals had been prohibited in Japan for more than a thousand years.
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  9. Al Pacino turned down the role of Han Solo.
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  10. Russell Crowe turned down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix.
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  11. The Dutch army had only one tank during WWII.
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  12. Most Americans can buy an AR-15 rifle before they can legally buy a beer.
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  13. Japanese manufacture Toto built a motorcycle that runs on poop.
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  14. Porsche's first car, in 1898, was electric.
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  15. A nurse in Italy was accused in 2014 of killing 38 patients because she thought they were “annoying.”
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  16. The Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, once hired 420 mimes artists to make fun of traffic violators because he believes Colombians fear ridicule more than being fined.
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  17. A study says 13.9 Million people call in sick or arrive late to work the day after the Super Bowl.
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  18. The Nazis are believed to have sterilised 400,000 Germans deemed to have lives not worth living.
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  19. There cities of Jericho, Luxor, Damascus, Byblos and Beirut have been continuously inhabited for more than 5,000 years.
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  20. One of the oldest species of animal still with us are the horseshoe crabs who appeared 445 million years ago. They've survived for 75% of the entire span of animal life on the planet.
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  21. "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" was originally called "Who's S-S-Scared?"
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  22. The Nigerian film industry, or Nollywood, is the second largest in the world in terms of numbers of films produced.
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  23. A study found that 99% of all participants in multi-level marketing schemes lose money.
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  24. In 1996, Australia enacted strict gun laws. It had no mass shooting since.
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  25. In Sweden, up to 63,000 people, mostly women, were sterilised under a racial purity programme approved by the state until 1976.
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  26. Farmers are encouraged to test soil quality by burying their underpants and digging them up two months later. In good soil they are eaten by microbes; in poor soil untouched.
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  27. Throughout his life, JFK had four spinal surgeries, two of them nearly resulting in his death.
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  28. Judaism emphasizes that sex is a deeply holy act to be performed regularly, and insists that it be pleasurable for both members of a married couple.
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  29. In 19th-century Maryland, it was illegal to sell mineral water on a Sunday.
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  30. In 2014, a pair of underpants donated by the mayor of Brussels was stolen from the Brussels Underpants Museum.
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