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Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, a study found.

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Sylvester Stallone spent nine days in hospital after Lundgren hit him for real while filming Rocky IV.

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Richard Nixon was brought up as a Quaker and, as a boy, went to church 4 times on Sundays.

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The site of the Vatican is where Emperor Nero attempted to crush the Christians in Rome by persecuting and murdering Christians.

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A major issue the Apollo astronauts pointed out was Moon dust. It caused 'lunar hay fever,' problems with space suits, and dust storms in the crew cabin upon returning to space.

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Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was first published in England, not in the U.S.

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In 2013, a New York family bought a $3 bowl at a garage sale. It turned out to be an 11th-century Chinese bowl worth $2.2 million.

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Until 2015

it was illegal

for the British monarch

to be Catholic or married to one.

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Porn websites attract more visitors each month than Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter combined.

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Post-relationship grief affects men, in the long term, more than women.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 started as a result of information from a Russian spy who was executed by Russia the following year.

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Apollo 7 astronauts, Shirra, Eisele and Cunningham, made the first televised broadcast from space in October, 1968.

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Nostradamus published a cook book of recipes for bleaching hair, toothpaste, jams, jellies, laxatives and marmalade.

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A baby born in 2007 in the US, UK, Japan, Italy, Germany, France or Canada has a 50% chance of living until they are over 100.

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The brand name "Kia" literally means "to come out of Asia" in Korean.

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1 in 6 U.S. veterinarians might have contemplated suicide since graduation. That's 3 times the U.S. national mean.

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Paul McCartney was once arrested for trying to bring marijuana into Japan.

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Seattle has a lower polio vaccination rate than African countries like Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Sudan.

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Pluto is, by law, still a planet in New Mexico.

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Leonardo DiCaprio turned down the role for Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels.

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Photographers were not allowed to take pictures of Franklin D. Roosevelt in a wheelchair.

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The "people" named in the 1788 U.S. Constitution were land-owning white men only.

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Napoleone di Buonaparte changed his name to Napoleon Bonaparte so it would be more French. His family was Italian and lived on the island of Corsica.

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Al Capone's nickname of Scarface was due to being slashed by a rival gang member.

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Medical bills are the biggest cause of U.S. bankruptcies, a 2013 study found.

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Most of Steve Jobs' wealth was from his shares in Disney, not Apple.

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The Empire State Building generates more revenue from the observation deck than from all the commercial tenants in the remaining 101 floors combined.

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Paris, France, was the first western capital to have a mayor of African descent in 1879.

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In 2016, a man called Lawrence John Ripple robbed a bank and then waited in the lobby, later telling the investigators he'd rather be in jail than with his wife.