1. If you weighed 150 lbs. (68 kg.) on Earth, you would weigh 351 lbs. (159 kg.) on Jupiter.
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  2. A 15-year-old Lady GaGa appears in “The Sopranos” Season 3.
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  3. An "idiot plot", according to film critic Roger Ebert, is a movie plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots.
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  4. U.S. and EU law requires electric cars to make artificial noise to make them safer for pedestrians.
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  5. In California, you're about as likely to be shot by a toddler than die in an earthquake.
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  6. Experiencing new things slow down our internal sense of time, studies have found.
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  7. The book "Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide", which consists of 266 blank pages, became a #1 best-seller on Amazon in 2017.
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  8. Lynda Carter only had $25 in her bank account when she was cast as Wonder Woman in the 1970s series.
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  9. In Italy there is a fountain that flows 24-hours a day with red wine.
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  10. In 1967, Picoazá, Ecuador, elected a brand of foot deodorant as the town's mayor.
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  11. Dublin is home to Ireland's National Leprechaun Museum.
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  12. Movie-goers eat 28% more popcorn when watching a sad movie.
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  13. Outer space is only an hour's drive away, if you somehow drove your car straight upwards.
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  14. Beer was illegal in Iceland until March 1, 1989. Now, the date is celebrated every year in Reykjavik as Bjordagur, or Beer Day.
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  15. Partly in response to
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    “flesh” crayon to “peach” in 1962.
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  16. Eight of the top ten largest stadiums in the world are university football stadiums in the United States.
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  17. The oldest razor-like object has been dated to 18,000 B.C. and people have shaved since prehistoric times.
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  18. Microsoft was about to use "Prepare to Fly" as a slogan for Windows XP launch but dropped it because of 9/11.
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  19. The most disproportionately common physical injury diagnosis in Hawaii is "arm injury."
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  20. You can be sued for breaking off an engagement in about half of U.S. states.
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  21. The 1999 Ig Nobel Peace Prize went to the inventors of cars with flamethrowers, used to prevent carjacking.
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  22. Machu Picchu was built around 1450 at the height of the Inca Empire, but abandoned by the time the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1572.
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  23. Stravinsky had an affair with Coco Chanel in the summer of 1920. He was revising the Rite of Spring and she was about to launch Chanel No. 5.
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  24. Aphantasia is a condition in which some people are unable to visualise mental images.
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  25. Three friends in their early 20's were sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1997 for removing a stop sign as a prank in the U.S. and causing the deaths of 3 people.
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  26. Antibiotic resistance could lead to over 10 million deaths per year which could make it a bigger problem than cancer.
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  27. Pineapples were very expensive in the 1700s, so American colonists would rent a pineapple and carry it around a party to show their wealth.
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  28. Dolphins shed the top layer of their skin every two hours.
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  29. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of a seminal philosophical work on education, gave up his 5 children to a foundling hospital, saying he "didn't have the means to take care of them."
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  30. A transplanted great toe decreases in size up to one third when transplanted to the hand.
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