1. Hitler married Eva Braun less than 40 hours before they died.
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  2. There are 93 million Wangs in China, is the most popular name in the country.
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  3. Caodaism is a Vietnamese religion that worships Joan of Arc, Shakespeare, and Muhammad.
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  4. Women who use a hormonal form of birth control are more likely to be diagnosed with depression compared to those who don't.
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  5. More Oscar winners thank Harvey Weinstein than God and less than half thank the Academy, study shows.
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  6. The Swiss own more guns per head than the Iraqis.
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  7. Each year up to 50 million people are injured in traffic accidents, globally.
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  8. Bart accounted for a significantly larger share of the show's dialogue in season 1 than in any future season of The Simpsons.
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  9. Australia's first police force was composed of the best-behaved convicts.
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  10. Rene Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women.
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  11. The biggest dam built by beavers is twice as long as the Hoover Dam.
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  12. The London Underground was originally intended to terminate in Paris.
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  13. In order to be light enough to fly, birds have only one ovary.
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  14. The giant palm salamander can stick its tongue out 50 times faster than you can blink.
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  15. Norway's coastline is long enough to circle the planet two and a half times.
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  16. "Pee Cola" is a popular soft drink in Ghana.
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  17. Each anteater eats about 35,000 ants and termites each day.
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  18. The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is twice the size of Europe.
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  19. ‘Bitch the pot' was 19th-century slang for ‘pour the tea'.
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  20. "Holland" is a province, South and North, in The Netherlands, not the name of the whole country.
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  21. Breathing 100% oxygen, instead of the 21% in our atmosphere, is generally bad, and sometimes toxic.
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  22. Mushrooms can can stimulate rain in the atmosphere surrounding their habitats.
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  23. The last time anyone is known to have contracted HIV from blood donation in the U.S. was in 2008.
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  24. Ichiro Suzuki, baseball's all-time hits leader, learned Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents.
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  25. Measles was officially eliminated in the Americas, the first region in the world to do it.
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  26. In the first 26 seasons of "The Simpsons," Homer has said the most, accounting for 21% of the show's 1.3 million words.
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  27. Horses can be trained to use symbols in order to tell humans what they want, a study found.
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  28. WTF is the acronym of the World Taekwondo Federation.
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  29. St Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.
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  30. 255 people are born every minute.
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