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Phonophobia is the fear or aversion of loud sounds.

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Jackie Chan trains his stuntmen and pays their medical bills out of pocket.

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Cacao plants are slated to disappear by as early as 2050 thanks to warmer temperatures and dryer weather conditions.

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Director Guillermo del Toro owns a house called 'Bleak House' in which there's a room with a never-ending rainstorm projected onto all windows and audio to match. He often uses this room to write.

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In China, 171,000 people perished in 1975 due to the collapse of the Banqiao Dam, an event hidden from the world until 2005.

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HDMI licensed manufacturers pay an annual fee of US$10,000 plus a royalty rate of $0.15 per cable, reduced to $0.05 if the HDMI logo is used.

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In France, it is illegal to to publish photographs of handcuffed suspects, as they are not to appear guilty until proven so.

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Oklahoma's 2016 Teacher of the Year moved to Texas in 2017 for a higher salary.

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Netflix show 'Black Mirror' derives its name from the reflection you see in a switched off screen or monitor

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In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Edmund Hillary went

to the North Pole together.

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Finland is the only country in the developed world where fathers of primary school-age children spend more time with their children than mothers.

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Electronic devices are scrambling the navigational cues used by migrating birds.

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Actor Martin Sheen has been arrested 66 times for protesting and other civil disobedience.

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Most people believe other people's social lives are richer and more active than their own, a study found.

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Hawaiian Airlines never had a fatal accident or a hull loss throughout its 88 year history, the oldest in the U.S.

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While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking questions to humans or other apes.

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The second officer of the Titanic, who survived by swimming from the sinking ship to a capsized raft, later in life sailed his civilian craft to Dunkirk and helped evacuate over 130 men.

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"Swatting" happens when someone makes a call to a police department with a false story of an ongoing crime –often with killing or hostages involved– in an attempt to draw a large number of police officers to a particular address.

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In 2017, a Texas wedding photographer was awarded a $1 million defamation verdict against a married couple whom the jury found posted false statements in a social media campaign after being unhappy about a surprise $125 fee.

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Beethoven managed to keep working even after he completely lost his hearing by the time he was 45. By clenching a stick in his teeth, holding it against the keyboard of his piano, he could discern faint sounds.

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Ghanaian soccer player Mohammed Anas accidentally thanked both his wife and his girlfriend in a speech after a match.

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A lychnobite is someone who sleeps all day and works all night.

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Riding a roller coaster can help patients to expel their kidney stones.

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The use of CAPITAL LETTERS TO DENOTE SHOUTING dates back to the 19th century.

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The world record for the most bird species seen by one person in a year is 6,833.

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65% of all Google searches in 2019 were mobile.

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‘Bumpsy' is 17th-century slang for ‘drunk'.

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One contender for the geographical centre of the U.S. is a place called Center.

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Giant flying turkeys as big as kangaroos once roamed Australia.

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The US Embassy in Kathmandu has guidelines on what to do if a yeti is found.

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