1. Each year, Google receives more than two million job applications from around the world.
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  2. Donald Trump was the most Googled person of 2016 in 88 countries, including Mexico, Spain, South Africa and New Zealand.
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  3. In 2014, individual Americans gave US$258 billion to charity —more than twice the amount given by corporations and foundations combined.
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  4. A NY man spent almost 5 months in prison in 2014, unaware that his bail was US$2.
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  5. After Barack Obama visited Kenya in 2015, two women named their sons Air Force One.
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  6. Oral sex
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    in Singapur
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  7. Before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Saddam Hussein had turned over the day-to-day running of the Iraqi government to his aides and was spending most of his time writing a novel.
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  8. One-armed tennis player Hans Redl played at Wimbledon from 1947 to 1956. He served by tossing the ball up with his racket.
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  9. Fidel Castro made Cuba the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere.
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  10. From Dr. No to Quantum of Solace, James Bond has killed 352 people and slept with 52 women.
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  11. Bees know when it's going to rain, so they put in extra work the day before.
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  12. Bacteria have the smallest eyeballs in nature but the largest relative to their size.
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  13. Steve Jobs was scared of buttons.
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  14. In 1964, 57 people escaped from under the noses of East German border guards, through a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
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  15. 1 in 5 American CEOs have clinically significant psychopathic traits.
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  16. Africa is both the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent.
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  17. More than 60% of pandas born in captivity die within a week.
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  18. The big toe carries the most weight of all the toes, bearing about 40% of the load.
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  19. Only 1 in 10 victims of cyber-bullying tell a parent.
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  20. If you weighed 150 lbs. (68 kg.) on Earth, you would weigh 159 lbs. (72 kg.) on Saturn.
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  21. The historic news of the first manned powered flight by the Wright Brothers first appeared in the magazine Gleanings in Bee Culture.
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  22. The famous barbarian leader Attila accepted hefty subsidies in gold in exchange for not attacking Roman territory — then did it anyway.
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  23. Mark Zuckerberg's AI home assistant is voiced by Morgan Freeman.
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  24. A woman in Jacksonville, Florida, sold her urine and positive pregnancy tests in 2016 on Craigslist to pay for college.
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  25. In 1966, a 26-year-old man successfully fasted for 382 days and lost 276 lbs (125 kg).
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  26. A US$300,000 diamond was lost in an F1 crash in 2004. The diamond was attached to the car to promote Ocean's 12 movie and was never recovered after the crash
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  27. Police in Chile arrested in 2009 a woman bound for Spain who was carrying suitcases made from (rather than filled with) 20 kilos (44lb) of cocaine.
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  28. A boulevard is a big, wide street with trees on both sides. A lane is a narrow, often rural road. A drive is long, winding, and scenic.
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  29. Tiger cubs are vulnerable in their first few months, with mortality as high as 50%.
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  30. Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be photographed at his inauguration.
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