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Meteorito is a Cabernet Sauvignon wine that was aged in a barrel with a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite for a year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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For every dollar invested in sanitation and water, there is a $4.30 return in the form of reduced health care costs around the world.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Alexandre Dumas, author of The Count of Monte Cristo, fought a duel when he was 23 years old, but his pants fell down in the midst of it.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In Alaska, more than 80% of adults are registered as organ donors, while in New York only 12% of adults are.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Battle of Waterloo didn't take place in the village of Waterloo but in the nearby villages of Braine l'Alleud and Plancenoit.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The cross-eyed silent-film comedian Ben Turpin had his eyes insured for US$100,000 against uncrossing.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The FBI was created under the tenure of attorney general Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the great-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The city of Surprise, Arizona was named by its founder who stated she "would be surprised if the town ever amounted to much."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Aztecs had penalties for being drunk which ranged from head-shaving to the death penalty.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In Florida, executions are carried out by a private citizen who is paid $150 per execution.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The 1962 escape from Alcatraz, the only successful one, is still under investigation by the U.S. Marshals Service.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The lifespan of a rock star is 25 years shorter than average.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Houdini starred in five Hollywood movies and owned his own movie studio.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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75% of people will suffer from hemorrhoids at some point in their lives.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Eating excess calories stops the body's production of uroguanylin, a chemical that helps people feel full, so overeating begets overeating.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Kepler 11145123 star, discovered in 2016, is so perfectly spherical that it's the roundest natural object ever measured.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Kevin Costner refused to star in the movie Platoon (1986) because he believed it was insulting to American soldiers, since his own brother was a Vietnam veteran.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A resting manatee can stay submerged for 15 minutes, but must surface every 3-4 minutes while swimming.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Turning back the giant hands on Big Ben's four clock faces takes an incredible 5 hours in total.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Zoo Hypothesis speculates that Aliens are secretly studying us from afar.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Genetic and archaeological evidence suggests there were two distinct dog populations in the world, one in the east and one in the west, during the Palaeolithic.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In the U.S., more than 60 million people are chronically infected with toxoplasma gondii, also known as the "cat poop parasite."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Although he was a devoted pacifist, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, urging him to prioritize the development of an atomic weapon before Nazi Germany.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The first Cannes Film Festival was called off after the screening of just one film due to the outbreak of WW2.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Education in the Amish culture is stopped intentionally at the 8th grade.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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2013 was the first year since 1432 that's a rearrangement of four consecutive numbers.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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About 10% of pimps accept credit or debit cards.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Two-thirds of Britons lie about having read a book in order to seem more intelligent. The commonest book that people lie about is George Orwell's 1984.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Dead Woman's Crossing" is a community in Custer County, Oklahoma, that got its name from a murder that happened in 1905.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
