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When Christopher Columbus needed a place to store his loot, he went to the Banco di San Giorgio in Genoa, Italy, the world's first public modern bank.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE -
Spiders can tune the strings in their webs to transmit specific messages.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The greenest, safest and most productive buildings in the U.S. are airports, followed by government offices and hospitals.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In Japan, there's a museum of rocks that look like faces.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Phoenix, Arizona, used to be named Pumpkinville.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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No sitting U.S. president has visited Antarctica.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Fewer than 26% of eligible American voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Bill Gates' net worth is 4.5 times as large as North Korea's estimated GDP.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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93% of dog owners in the U.S. say their dog has made them a better person in at least one way, a study found.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Elvis Presley once lived next to an Orthodox rabbi and his wife. On the Saturday sabbath, he ran errands and turned electronics on and off for them.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2012, a Hong Kong business tycoon offered a US$65 million reward for any man who can woo and marry his lesbian daughter.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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80% of people are dissatisfied with their jobs.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Couples in which one partner spends 10+ hours more than usual at work divorce at twice the average rate.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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More than 13 million working days are lost every year because of stress-related illnesses.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Cats are such picky eaters because they are naturally driven to eat foods with a preferred ratio of protein to fat: 1 to 0.4.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Firefighters in Dubai use jetpacks to tackle blazes in high-rise buildings.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If the U.S. freed all its prisoners except murderers and rapists, it would still have more people in prison per head than Germany.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The longest-running experiment is the pitch drop experiment. A funnel holding a sample of tar pitch sealed in a glass jar shows how some substances that appear solid are actually liquid. It takes 10 years for a single drop to form.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The cost of sequencing a human genome went from US$100 million in 2007 to about US$3,000 in 2012.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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As soon as they find a rock to anchor themselves to, young sea squirts eat their own brains.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2012, about 42 million Americans had never been married, twice as many as in 1960.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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People in Britain who wake in the middle of the night are most likely to do it at 3:44 a.m.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There is a reservoir of water 3 timesthe volume of all the oceans deep beneath the Earth's surface.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ancient Greeks investigated animal structure and described the difference between arteries and veins around 500 BCE.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A cabin fire on Apollo 1 killed three astronauts during a launch-pad test in 1967.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An analysis of nearly two-thirds of the world's languages shows that humans tend to use the same sounds for common objects and ideas.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An iPhone has about 75 elements in it — two-thirds of the periodic table.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Jackie Kennedy won an Emmy Award for her televised tour of The White House in 1962.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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50 beavers were introduced into Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, in the 1940s to help start a fur trade. There are now over 100,000, and they have devastated over 16 million hectares.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The director of the FBI encouraged everyone to cover their webcams in 2016.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
