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In 2011, Belgians were voted the least cool nationality.
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The Italian bank Credito Emiliano accepts wheels of Parmesan cheese as loan collateral.
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Bees on cocaine tend to overestimate their nectar and pollen gathering skills.
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In 1926 the White House was sent a raccoon to eat for Thanksgiving, but President Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace kept 'Rebecca' as a pet.
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The word ‘uncle’ comes from the Latin word ‘avunculus’, which literally means ‘little grandfather’.
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The more you spend on an engagement ring, the more likely you are to get divorced.
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To avoid US libel suits, authors will sometimes make sure to note that a fictionalized person has a small penis.
For libel, it must be obvious the real person and character are the same.
Men rarely want to prove in court that they are obviously the character with a small penis.
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Crows can understand the concept of zero.
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Word of the Day: SPREZZATURA (Italian) - the art of carefully cultivated nonchalance to hide the effort you’re actually making
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Americans today have approximately 64 billion bones between them. In 65 million years, only about 50 of these bones will survive in the fossil record.
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Due to early bacteria, it's possible that 650 million years ago the oceans were pink.
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According to a recent Russian law, it’s only ‘champagne’ if it is produced in Russia. Otherwise — and even if it comes from the Champagne region of France — it’s just ‘sparkling wine’.
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A London tennis club attempted to train dogs to replace "ball boys" at Wimbledon.
The trial failed because the dogs did not want to return the tennis balls.
(Image: carterse; CC BY-SA.)
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‘Cow-juice’ was a 19th-century slang term for milk.
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Only one in 15 people who have ever lived are alive now.
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"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Although English is the most predominant language in New Zealand, it is not an official language of the country. The two official languages are Maori and New Zealand Sign Language.
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"Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book." TERRY PRATCHETT
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In 1945, American soldier Jack Lucas threw himself on two grenades; 250 pieces of shrapnel lodged in his body, but he survived. In 1961, he survived a jump when both of his parachutes failed. In 1977, his wife plotted to kill him. He died in 2008 at the age of 80.
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Assuming each vampire feeds once a month, it would take two and a half years years for the whole human population to become vampires.
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Alice Lee was a statistician who debunked the claim that men must be more intelligent than women because of bigger skulls. In 1898, she measured the skulls of 35 members of the Anatomical Society and found that the smallest heads belonged to the most renowned scientists.
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Tortoiseshell cats are 99.6% female.
Image: Hammersfan
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Zombies would likely develop high cholesterol on an all-brains diet.
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Olivia Newton-John’s maternal grandfather was the physicist Max Born, who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for his research in quantum mechanics. Her father was the MI5 officer Brinley Newton-John, who helped break the Enigma codes. Her third cousin is Ben Elton.
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MTV's show "16 And Pregnant" caused a 4.3% reduction in teen births in the US.
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