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There's a Cereal Cafe in London where you can eat hundreds of different kinds of cereals from around the world.

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Crying makes you feel better, reduces stress, and may help to keep the body healthy.

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A knork is a combination of a knife and a fork.

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You can save 2,190 gallons of water per person per year by only flushing the toilet once a day.

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Edward VIII, King of the UK in 1936, was a Nazi sympathiser and later argued that bombing England could bring peace by ending WW2.

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In 2009, a doctor in India removed 172,155 stones from a patient's left kidney during a three-hour surgery.

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Goldfish don't have stomachs and should therefore be fed easily digestible food in lots of small feeding sessions.

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The CIA burns classified documents to heat their water.

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When the D-Day forces landed, Hitler was asleep. None of his generals dared send re-enforcements without his permission, and no-one dared wake him.

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There is a town in Mexico where people have a huge fist fight to ask the gods for a good rainy season.

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In many mammals, goose bumps occur when facing a threat. We humans can get goose bumps when we experience awe.

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In 1968, a man built a platform off the coast of Italy and declared himself the President of his micronation. The Italian government seized control and blew it up with explosives.

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The oldest house in the UK is nearly 6000 years old and has stone furniture that is still intact.

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11 of the 12 men who walked on the moon were Boy Scouts .

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"Shabbat elevators" stop at every floor to avoid pressing buttons, which is considered "doing work" on Shabbat, thus forbidden, in Judaism.

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A man called Billy Owen lost an eye and half his face to cancer and used it to start a career as a zombie actor.

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In 2006, a man in Sudan was ordered to marry a goat after he was caught having sex with it.

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In California and 3 other U.S. states, "Ladies' Night" are against the law because they are gender discrimination.

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Godzilla is an official Citizen of Japan.

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All Pakistani passports bear the inscription "This passport is valid for all countries of the World except Israel."

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In 2005, a Nepalese couple became the first to marry on top of Mount Everest.

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A man called Harold Hackett has put over 4800 messages in bottles into the ocean and has gotten 3000 responses back.

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Global warming 'solved' a land dispute

between India and Bangladesh:
the island in dispute disappeared.

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A wealthy man in Bangladesh built a replica of the Taj Mahal for US$56 Million so that the poor of his nation could get to see it.

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In order to discover that penguins sleep more deeply in the afternoon, scientists crept up on sleeping penguins at different times of the day and poked them with a stick until they woke up.

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John Lennon claimed that his song "Imagine" was basically a summation of the Communist manifesto.

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4% of the sand on Normandy beaches are still made up of metal particles from D-Day landings.

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Christopher Columbus once punished a man found guilty of stealing corn by having his ears and nose cut off and then selling him into slavery.

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Ten days after the Chernobyl disaster, further risk of massive thermal explosion was identified. Three men known as "The Chernobyl divers" volunteered to swim through pooled water under leaked reactor to release the safety valves. They died a few days later due to radiation exposure.