1. It took Quebec until 2006 to pay off its debt from hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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  2. The top speed at the world's first real automobile race in 1895 was just 15 mph.
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  3. After the Crimean war, and until 1916, soldiers in the British army were required to sport mustaches.
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  4. In the 19th century, doctors treated hysteria in women by inducing orgasms. This is how the vibrator was invented.
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  5. The Allies parachuted dummies over Normandy on D-day to distract Nazi gunners from the real paratroopers.
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  6. Tarantulas have evolved almost exactly the same shade of vibrant blue at least 8 separate times.
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  7. About US$2 billion in lottery prizes go unclaimed every year in the U.S.
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  8. Neil Armstrong threatened legal action against his barber for selling his hair to a collector for US$3,000.
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  9. Studies show tattoos make it more difficult to find skin cancer, since a malignant mole can take on the color of the tattoo surrounding it.
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  10. There is an island known as "Just Room Enough Island" that has just enough room for a tree and a house.
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  11. Vegans in the UK went from 150,000 in 2006 to 542,000 in 2016.
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  12. A female president's husband would be known as "First Gentleman".
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  13. Lady Gaga wrote her hit "Just Dance" with her producer in just 10 minutes.
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  14. Saudi Arabia didn't start sending women to the Olympics until 2012.
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  15. The Bajau people of Malaysia live almost entirely at sea.
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  16. Portuguese is spoken more in Angola and Mozambique than it is in Portugal.
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  17. A Russian scientist attempted to achieve immortality by transfusing his blood with that of young people. He died after accidentally transfusing his blood with that of a malaria victim.
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  18. New York's subway is the only rapid transit system in the world that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, almost nonstop since 1904.
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  19. McDonald's paid Justin Timberlake about US$6 million to sing the "ba-da-ba-ba-bah" jingle in the first U.S. "I'm Lovin' It" TV spots.
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  20. There was a toilet paper shortage in the U.S. in 1973 caused by a joke on a talk show that convinced people to hoard toilet paper.
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  21. In 2004, an Australian research institute published a study on the loss of teaspoons in the workplace.
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  22. The first colored man to win the Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph Bunche, who won it in 1950 for his mediation work between Arabs and Israelis.
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  23. Spartan men were not allowed to live with their families until they left their active military service at age 30.
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  24. The U.S. declared war on the Mormon Church in 1857 because they wanted to govern Utah under different, more religious laws than the Federal Government would allow.
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  25. An estimated 80% of available jobs in the U.S. never get posted or advertised.
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  26. 9 people died every day in 2015 while commuting in local trains of Mumbai, India.
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  27. Trees "sleep" at night, relaxing their branches after dawn and perking them up before sunrise.
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  28. Sunscreen SPF is a very nonlinear metric. An SPF of 15 blocks 93% of incoming radiation, SPF 30 blocks 97% and SPF 50 blocks 98%.
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  29. It's illegal to own 6 or more dildos in Texas.
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  30. By the age of 20, a native English-speaking American knows 42,000 dictionary words.
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