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The "Share a Coke" campaign --where Coca-Cola replaced its name on bottles with people's first names-- increased Coca-Cola's U.S. sales by more than 2%, reversing more than 10 years of decline in Coke consumption in the U.S.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Argentina's national sport is not soccer. It's Pato, an ancient horseback game.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Montana became, in 2018, the first state to make net neutrality mandatory.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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32 million inappropriate videos were removed from YouTube in 2018 by a team of 10,000 reviewers.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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1 in 6 U.S. millennials now have savings of $100,000 or more, according to a new Bank of America survey.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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It would cost you only about US$140 a year if you ate ramen for every meal.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"The Matrix" movie took five years to write.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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U2 singer Bono's stage name comes from the Latin term "Bono Vox" which means "Good Voice."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In much of the U.S., it is illegal to buy a new car from the manufacturer.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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3 out of 4 teenage girls feel depressed after looking at a fashion magazine for only 3 minutes, according to a study.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The average person pees about 6 times a day.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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75% of all suicide attempts are by self-poisoning with drugs, and 97% of those cases survive.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Intel employs a "futurist" whose job is to determine what life will be like 10-15 years in the future.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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More than $80 of every $100 of wealth created in 2017 went to the richest 1%.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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According to the Washington Post, Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims in his first year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Until three million years ago, whales were less than 30 feet long.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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420,000 people die annually from tainted food.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Cuba bans statues of living Cubans.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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85% of Vakkaru Island in the Maldives is made up of fish faeces.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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50% of US territory is under the sea.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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England is smaller thanNew York state.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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1 in 8 young Britons have never seen a cow in real life.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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After Korean soccer player Ahn Jung-hwan scored the goal to eliminate Italy from the 2002 World Cup, his contract was cancelled by the Italian club he played at for ‘ruining Italian soccer.'♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Prisoners waiting to be executed on Death Row in America are given a physical beforehand, to ensure they are fit enough to die.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In a study following the lives of 19,000 kids for 10 years, video games had no negative social behavior effects on the children.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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According to various studies, between one third and two thirds of people surveyed in the U.S. admit they sometimes feel angry at God.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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80% of McDonald's restaurants are owned and operated by its franchisees.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen, it is illegal to die.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2010, a group of 15 monkeys escaped a research institute in Japan by using trees to catapult themselves over a 17ft high electric fence.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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