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We lose over a pound of weight during sleep by exhaling.

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Despite its reputation as being a rainy city, London receives less precipitation in a year than Rome, Toulouse, Naples and even Sydney in Australia, but those are spread over more days.

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Monkey brains are eaten as a delicacy in parts of China, South Asia and Africa.

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When it comes to human tragedy, no creature comes close to the devastation caused by mosquitoes.

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Queen, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and Tupac never won a Grammy, while Milli Vanilli and Justin Bieber did.

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The movie "Sideways" sent Pinot Noir sales through the roof and had a negative impact on Merlot, following the main character preferences.

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Approximately 70% of the freshwater used by humans goes to agriculture and livestock.

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Some holocaust survivors died of chocolate and candy overdose within their first week of freedom.

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Bill Gates changed his school's program codes so he was placed in class with mostly female students.

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At 456 feet high, the world's largest door is taller than the Statue of Liberty and owned by NASA.

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Stress can cause a human's hair to fall out up to 10 times more than usual.

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The Hollywood sign was changed by a prankster in 1976 to read "Hollyweed", after the passage of a state law decriminalising marijuana.

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Traffic accidents kill 1.25 million people per year.

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A Snoopy Museum opened in 2016 in Tokyo, Japan.

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Half of your brain stands guard when you are sleeping in a new place for the first time.

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Of the 967 people who died in jail in the U.S. in 2013, 76% had not been convicted of a crime.

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1145 people were killed by police in the U.S. in 2015.

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You could cover the Great Wall of China 8 times with the number of jars of Nutella sold in a year.

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Dinosaur feathers aren't just visually apparent in fossils, but have actually been found preserved in amber.

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George Washington penned somewhere between 18,000 and 20,000 letters in his lifetime.

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The tallest known dog, as of 2010, was a Great Dane who measured 1.092 m (43 in) tall.

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An adult Asian elephant is capable of holding 8.5 L (2.2 US gal) of water in its trunk.

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Elvis Presley had never received formal music training or learned to read music. He played by ear.

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"Backpfeifengesicht" is a German word for a face that badly needs a punch.

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The average person gets 9,672 minor injuries in a lifetime, a UK survey found.

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Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, harbors an extremely salty ocean.

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NASA's Internet connection is 13,000 times faster than The average U.S. user, at 91 gigabits per second.

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Sarcasm promotes creativity, a Harvard study found.

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Large Dogs

Age Faster

and

Die Younger.

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The wolphin is the result of the union of a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale.

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