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A fish discovered in Australia in 2015 was named ‘Blue Bastard'.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The main street in Prishtina, the capital of Kosovo, is called Bill Clinton Boulevard.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Olympic swimmers routinely pee in the pool.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Velociraptors were no bigger than turkeys.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2015, Spanish workers destroyed a 6,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, mistaking it for a broken picnic table. They replaced it with a ‘better' picnic table.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Scientists alive today outnumber all the scientists who ever lived up to 1980.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Dr. Seuss wrote a few adult books, and one with nude drawings.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An octopus escaped from its tank at a New Zealand aquarium, crawled across the floor and into a pipe that took it to the ocean.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Florida newscaster Christine Chubbuck killed herself with a pistol on live TV in 1974. Her last words: "And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first: an attempted suicide."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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1 in 4 Americans did not read a book last year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Women are 50% less likely to access the Internet than men in poor urban communities.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The world's oldest prosthetic limb belongs to an Egyptian woman, that was outfitted with a wooden toe prosthesis in approximately 1000 B.C.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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To enlist in the U.S. army, you have to have all ten of your toes intact.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Immediately opposite the main ticket gates to Giza's Great Pyramid enclosure, you can find both Pizza Hut and KFC.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are invisible poems painted on Boston's sidewalks, and you can only see them when it rains.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Actor Robin Williams left in place a restriction on his image, or any likeness of his image, being used in films and adverts for 25 years after his death.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ernest Hemingway's son, Gregory, was transsexual and died in the women's section of the Miami-Dade county jail.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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13 children under the age of 10 have been issued with shotgun certificates in the UK over the past 3 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent nearly 438 consecutive days aboard the Mir space station, and still holds the record for longest single human spaceflight.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Windsor Castle is England's biggest and Europe fourth biggest castle. It is also the longest occupied castle in Europe.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If you weighed 150 lb (68 kg) on Earth, you would weigh 4,200 lb (1,905 kg) on the Sun.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Businessman Jim Estill paid US$1.5 million to bring 58 Syrian refugee families to Canada find them homes, and give them jobs.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank lived in a car with her mother while they saved up for an apartment in Los Angeles.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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8% of U.S. teachers walk away from the profession every year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2017 you can re-use calendars from the years 2006, 1995, 1989, 1978, 1967, 1961, 1950, 1939, 1933, and 1922.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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All the door frames for Star Wars: Episode I, had to rebuild due to Liam Neeson was too tall. It racked up an additional $150,000 in production costs.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2012, a Hungarian far-right anti-Semitic politician discovered that he was Jewish. He left his party, and set out on a journey to learn and practise Judaism.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Institute of Economic Affairs, which has argued forcefully in the media against the further regulation of the tobacco industry, has been secretly funded by British American Tobacco since 1963.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Paraguay boasts the world's third-biggest fleet of tug-propelled barges, behind the U.S. and China.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
