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As a teenager, Steve Jobs traveled to India to seek enlightenment and returned as a Buddhist.

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Karl Marx thought of immigrating to Texas, going so far as to apply to the mayor of Trier, his birthplace, for an immigration permit.

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In 2007, the CIA released documents that revealed the agency's collaboration with the italian mafia in a failed 1960 attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro.

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Humans are born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds. Every other fear is learned.

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Sean Connery was once pulled over and fined by a British police officer for speeding. The officer's name was Sergeant James Bond.

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The average keyboard contains 3,295 microbes per square inch.

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A manatee's nipples are in its armpits.

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In 2014, a deceased two-headed dolphin was discovered washing up on shore in the waters off Turkey's west coast.

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Some baby turtles talk to each other while they are still in their eggs so that they all hatch together.

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You can swim through syrup just as fast as you can swim through water, even though is many times thicker.

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Alexander Graham Bell invented several flying machines, but his attempts at flying flopped.

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Abraham Lincoln

was the

first Republican

elected to the U.S. Presidency.

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Dolphins and whales squeal

to express delight.

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Past Olympics have included solo synchronised swimming, pigeon shooting, tug of war, dueling with pistols, and motorboating.

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There are more than four times as many PR people in America as there are journalists.

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By the Middle Ages, black pepper had become a luxury item, so expensive that it was used to pay rent and taxes.

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The world's oldest known sewing needle was made 50,000 years ago by our long extinct Denisovan ancestors.

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Some insects

can see ultraviolet light.

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In August 2016, a dog was elected mayor of Cormorant, Minnesota, for its third term in a row.

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The 1980 Olympic Village is now a prison.

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Those who wear nothing in bed are more content in their relationships than those who cover up, according to a poll.

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London has more Indian restaurants than Mumbai or Delhi.

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Continents split up at the same speed finger nails grow.

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You can tweak your metabolic health by turning down the bedroom thermostat a few degrees.

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Female Greenland sharks reach sexual maturity at age 150.

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30% of American adults do not consume any alcohol ever.

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Due to a lack of family and friends in attendance at his funeral, the pallbearers of Lee Harvey Oswald's casket were reporters.

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About 17% of twins are left-handed. This compares to about 10% in the non-twin population.

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In 1993, Karl Watkins, an electrician, was jailed for having sex with pavements in Redditch, Worcs.

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In Japan, a festival called Kanamara Matsuri, or "Festival of the Steel Phallus," celebrates the defeat of a vagina demon by an iron penis.

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