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The 100 richest people in the world earned enough money in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times.

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When the Spice Girls first met Nelson Mandela in 1997, he joked: "This is one of the greatest moments of my life."

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There are approximately 1,600 pizza restaurants in New York City.

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Ovarian cancer is linked to the use of Johnson and Johnson's talc-based Baby Powder.

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Over 900 streets in the United States are named after Martin Luther King Jr.

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According to NASA, it would cost about US$18,000 to send a letter to Mars.

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Sanskrit has 96 words

for "love"

ancient Persian has 80

and English only one.

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20%

of all women in London during the 1700s were prostitutes.

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The last words Abraham Lincoln heard were "you sockdologizing old man-trap," a punchline from the play "Our American Cousin."

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Left-handed people process things faster than righties while playing computer games or sports.

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Leonardo Da Vinci was the illegitimate son

of a wealthy Florentine legal notary and a peasant.

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The White House Correspondent's Dinner was men-only until 1962, when JFK refused to attend unless women did.

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Facebook offers 4 months of paid parental leave to new fathers who work for the company.

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Iran sentences its citizens to the death penalty if they decide to change their religion from Islam.

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Over 500 girls have been named Hermione since the first 'Harry Potter' movie came out.

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Lake Michigan is so clear after winter, you can see shipwrecks from the sky.

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A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to die of an overdose.

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No one knows what Christopher Columbus looked like. No authentic contemporary portraits of him were found. Most just reconstructed his appearance from written descriptions.

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Barack Obama's late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government.

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Women undergoing abortion after 18 weeks gestation sometimes give birth to a fetus that may survive briefly. It happens in about 4 per 100,000 abortions.

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Germany was the first country ever to implement Daylight Saving Time in order to save energy during WW1.

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Most of a sperm whale's head is filled with a fatty, yellow tissue called "junk."

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The chemical element Uranium, discovered in 1789, was named after the newly discovered planet Uranus.

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Scientists believe cats are afraid of water because their ancestors lived in an area with very few large bodies of water and never had to learn how to swim.

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There are about 1,500 active volcanoes in the world.

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Venezuela's name comes from the Italian word "Veneziola" (little Venice). Explorer Amerigo Vespucci saw native stilt houses built in Lake Maracaibo, reminding him of Venice.

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The population of Ireland still hasn't recovered from the famine of 1845-1852. It was at 8 million before the famine and is at 6.5 million today.

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During WW2, India produced the largest volunteer Army in world history: over 2.5 million men. At least 38 Indians received the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.

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Hawaii's largest-ever earthquake occurred in 1868 and the aftershocks are still being observed.

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The classic Michael Jackson song "Thriller" was originally titled "Starlight" and had the same melody, but different lyrics.

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