1. The French military actually has the best military record in Europe. Out of 168 battles fought since 387BC, they have won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10.
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  2. Migrants committed 142,500 crimes in Germany during the first six months of 2016.
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  3. Cockburn
    is a town on the border of South Australia.
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  4. Worldwide, people consume 500 extra calories a day from sugar, which is roughly the amount of calories needed to gain a pound a week.
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  5. Jihadists killed 94 people inside the United States between 2005 and 2015. During that same time period, 301,797 people in the U.S. were shot dead.
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  6. Many farmers use llamas to guard their livestock from predators.
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  7. As a war correspondent during the Boer War, Winston Churchill was paid £10k a month in today's money.
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  8. George Washington is also known as the "Father of the American Foxhound," and kept more than 30 of the dogs.
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  9. 2.9 million
    breast cancer survivors are alive in the U.S. today.
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  10. Japanese Princess Aiko decided to stay home for a few months in 2010 due to bullying from her classmates.
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  11. An MIT-educated biologist, Katharine McCormick, inherited a substantial family fortune and funded the development of the first birth control pill in the 1950s.
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  12. There are more than 100,000 flights globally per day.
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  13. In Argentina, an orangutan was granted the right to life, liberty and freedom from harm.
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  14. Researchers placed an exercise wheel in the wild and found it was used extensively by mice without any reward for using it.
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  15. The average American thinks a quarter of the country is gay or lesbian, when in reality, the number is approximately 4%.
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  16. Miniskirts are illegal in Uganda.
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  17. The average American eats 1 in every 5 meals in the car.
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  18. Elon Musk had to borrow money to pay rent after he invested all US$180 million earned from PayPal on SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City.
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  19. The largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, was 1,400 times more powerful than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
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  20. Every month, U.S. residents send US$2 billion across the border to family in Mexico,
    which accounts for almost 3% of the Mexican economy.
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  21. Research has found that the more visually creative a person is, the lower the quality of their sleep.
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  22. Astronaut Scott Kelly grew 2 inches after being in space for a year.
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  23. Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics just so that he could play Spider Man in his own produced movie.
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  24. In Roman times, men held their own testicles as a sign of truthfulness while bearing witness in a public forum.
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  25. You can fit over US$20 million in a mattress.
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  26. 1749 out of 1750 species of cacti are native to only the Americas.
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  27. People who play video games are more likely to be lucid dreamers, having control over their actions in dreams, than those who don't.
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  28. The people of Shitterton, UK, banded together to buy a big rock to put the name on, as people kept stealing the sign.
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  29. King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for an estimated 10 million deaths in the Congo.
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  30. The seven sins according to Gandhi: "Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without principle."
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