In order to legally give someone a tattoo in South Korea, one must obtain a doctor's license.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 started as a result of information from a Russian spy who was executed by Russia the following year.
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in the fiscal year of 2014, the DEA spent an average of US$4.20 per marijuana plant they uprooted.
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Airlines make more money selling air miles than seats: between 1.5 and 2.5 cents per mile.
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The extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels.
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A teaspoon of water contains about 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in it.
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An Octopus with 96 tentacles was caught in Japan in 2008.
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Snakes are unable to close their eyes. They can't blink and they must sleep with their eyes open.
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Some monkeys and apes can recognize when a situation is unfair.
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Takeout coffee cups are not recyclable and billions are wasted every year.
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When you donate your body to science, it can get used as a crash test dummy, for medical training, forensic research or to save a life through organ transplants.
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Indonesians are the world's shortest people.
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Pre-Incan people are still living on man-made floating islands of grass on Lake Titicaca, as they have for hundreds of years.
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While studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior, neuroscientist James Fallon found that his own brain fit the profile.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother was also slain by a bullet.
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Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster, could not play guitar.
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The Millennium Prize is a US$1 million award given to whoever can solve any 1 of 7 math problems, but to date only 1 of the problems has been solved.
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A man can be arrested in Italy for wearing a skirt in public.
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The village of Dull, Scotland, is a "sister community" with the US town of Boring.
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The Statue Of Liberty's full name is "Liberty Enlightening the World."
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79% of Americans would take a pay cut to work for a company that's more "just" in their business practice.
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The siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire at the end of the First Jewish–Roman War ended in the mass suicide of 960 people. The place is now a popular tourist attraction in Israel.
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For every person on earth, there are roughly 170 million insects.
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Jack Daniels employees get a free bottle on the first payday of each month.
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In the 90s, the average American supermarket had 9,000 products. Today, there are around 40,000.
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Every piece of plastic ever made still exists.
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80% of plane crashes occur in the first 3 or last 8 minutes of a flight.
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30 years ago, you had about about 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today it's down to 3 to 4 minutes because newer homes and the furniture inside them burn faster.
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"Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia"
is the scientific term for brain freeze.
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Jackie Kennedy won an Emmy Award for her televised tour of The White House in 1962.
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In 2011, scientists re-measured Norway's beaches, islands and fjords, adding 11,000 miles to its coastline.
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Beyonce Knowles is an 8th cousin, four times removed, of Gustav Mahler.
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We lose over a pound of weight during sleep by exhaling.
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Billy Mitchell, founding father of the U.S. Air Force, predicted in 1924 that air attacks would be made by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor.
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600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.
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In the U.S., it cost between US$134,000 and US$237,000 to raise a child from birth to age 17 (not counting school).
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From the Middle Ages up to 1809,
Finland was part of Sweden.
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There's a specific word in Germany for learning to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust: "Vergangenheitsbewaltigung."
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The Philippines has the slowest Internet speed in Southeast Asia: 3.54 Mbps.
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Bamboo can grow up to 1 meter (3.2 ft) in 24 hours.
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Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at 6-foot-4.
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A honeybee's true surface area is the size of a piece of toast.
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Albert Einstein didn't like to wear socks.
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51.5% of deaths for hip-hop musicians are homicide.
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During WW2, two polish doctors saved 8,000 Jews from the Holocaust by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis entering their town.
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People who weigh more than others see distances as farther away.
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Apple earns US$300,000 per minute.
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Chimpanzees can identify each other from pictures of their butts.
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Lenticular clouds are rare formations that can look like UFOs. They are formed when wind encounters an obstruction such as a mountain.
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