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Half of men in Western Europe are the descendants of a single Bronze Age ruler, a study found.

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Every year, Walt Disney World's "Lost and Found" collects more than 6,000 cell phones, 3,500 digital cameras, and 18,000 hats.

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Donald Trump has been personally sued more than 70 times in federal court since 2000.

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Nelson Mandela's first son died in a car crash.

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"Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" has the highest body count of any movie ever made with 836 on-screen deaths.

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The man who invented pop-up ads has apologized to the world for creating one of the Internet's most hated forms of advertising.

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Left-handed people process multiple stimuli faster than righties.

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More than 1,000 white farmers have been killed in South Africa since 1990.

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A Cleveland Browns fan requested six Cleveland Browns pallbearers at his funeral so "the Browns could let him down one last time".

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Snapchat was originally marketed as an app to send nude pictures called Picaboo.

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"Hello" didn't become a greeting until the telephone arrived.

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A homeless man held up and robbed a bank in Portland for $1, then sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison.

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Ignorant people are more likely to believe they are brilliant, while intelligent people are more likely to underestimate their abilities.

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The smell of freshly-cut grass is actually a plant distress call due to trauma.

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When Salvador Dali was asked if he did drugs, he said "I don't do drugs... I am drugs."

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Mother Teresa considered suffering a gift from God and was criticized for her clinics' lack of care and malnutrition of patients.

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Still-beating hearts of live cobras are eaten as a delicacy in Vietnam.

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Chimpanzees can identify each other from pictures of their butts.

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Sea otters have skin pockets where they keep their favorite rocks to use for crushing seashells.

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Google offers employees free condoms that come in blue, red, green, and yellow and have the phrase "I'm Feeling Lucky!" printed on them.

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The acceptance rate for NASA's astronaut applications in 2015 was .08%.

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The Tetris theme song is actually a 19th-century Russian folk song called "Korobeiniki."

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When men drink coffee, Caffeine goes to the semen just like it goes to the blood.

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In 1891, Juan Vucetich, an Argentine Police Official, made the first criminal fingerprint identification.

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Marilyn Monroe was a size 12 in the 60s, but would now be a size 6, as women's clothing measurements have changed a lot since.

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During the Mormon War in 1838, the governor of Missouri made it legal to kill Mormons. The law was rescinded in 1976.

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Actor Vin Diesel has never met his father, and doesn't know what race he is

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Antidepressant drugs, already known to cause sexual side effects, may also suppress the basic human emotions of love and romance.

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The phrase ‘Time Person of the Year' contains the first, second and third most commonly used nouns in English, in order.

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Ants can survive in a microwave: they are small enough to dodge the rays.

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