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30%

of all cancers diagnosed in women are breast cancers.

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Americans consume 12.5 teaspoons more sugar each day

than the American Heart Association recommends.

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A crocodile's jaws can apply 50 times more pressure than a human's jaw.

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The Soviets landed a spacecraft on Venus in 1970. It became the first to land on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth.

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In 1989, Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Mikhail Gorbachev to keep the Berlin Wall up.

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Theodore Roosevelt Jr was the only General involved in the initial assault on D-Day, after insisting to his superiors to be one of the first ones off the boats. He survived, then died of a heart attack one month later.

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Two zebras died of hunger in a zoo in Palestine and were replaced with donkeys painted with black and white stripes.

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At the age of 11, Benjamin Franklin invented a pair of swim fins. He was later recognized by his induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

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There's a Native American tribe still living at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

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The 'intense world theory of autism' suggests that autistic people shut down because they experience and feel too much.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a huge Star Trek fan.

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A complete revolution around the Sun takes about 365 days and 6 hours. That's why our Gregorian calendar has a leap day.

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Estonian ID cards have a chip with public-private key pair used to sign documents and vote in elections via the internet. For their 2011 election, 24% of the votes were cast online.

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Barack Obama had the most followers on Twitter of any world leader in his last year in power, 2016.

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In 2008, a chimpanzee named Anjana adopted and raised two baby white tigers named Mitra and Shiva after a hurricane.

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At least 55 people have
accidentally fallen

from the rim of the Grand Canyon
to their death.

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The ancient pyramids of Giza are located right up against the modern city of Cairo.

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The doctor who claimed a link between vaccines and autism, Andrew Wakefield, created fraudulent data for his paper and lost his medical license as a result.

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Astronauts aboard Apollo 10 heard unexplained "outer spacey" music while orbiting the dark side of the moon.

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Musk, used in high-end perfume, was originally an animal secretion that smells like urine.

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Martin Luther King Jr. received a C+ in public speaking at seminary school.

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Ostriches and zebras often live together to protect each other from predators. The ostrich can see better and the zebra can hear or smell danger better.

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The average American spends US$ 7,852 on food every year.

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Ancient Romans ran cold aqueduct water in pipes through their houses in an early form of air conditioning.

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Koalas, Iguanas, Komodo dragons and

most marsupials have a bifurcated penis.

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About half of Americans born at the turn of the 20th century had blue eyes. Today, only about 1 in 6 Americans has them.

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The U.S. has more museums than Starbucks and McDonald's locations combined.

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In 1963, Albert Heineken created a beer bottle that could also be used as a brick to build sustainable housing in impoverished countries.

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Christopher Columbus thought that the world was shaped like a woman's breast.

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Barack Obama won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, "Dreams From My Father."

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