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There's a restaurant built into a grotto in Italy.

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Indian housewives hold 11% of the World's Gold. That is more than the reserves of the U.S., IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.

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The average serial killer in the U.S. has an IQ of 94.7.

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The average cost of a night out in New York is US$82.

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Elvis Presley was a karate black belt.

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Martin Luther King Jr. had previously used his "dream" rhetoric many times before his famous speech in other lesser-known speeches.

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The Taj Mahal was covered with a scaffold during WWII to make it look like a stockpile of Bamboo and misguide any enemy bombers.

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More than 86,000 people are injured by tripping over their cats and dogs every year in the U.S.

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It is estimated that the average person in the U.S. will have spent some 10,000 hours gaming by the time they are 21 years old.

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Moon landing conspiracy theories were proven wrong in 2011 when a NASA probe revealed high-resolution photos of the Apollo Moon landing sites.

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21%

of all New York City elementary students from all income levels are obese.

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It's okay to pee in the ocean since 95% of urine is water and the nitrogen in urea is used to feed ocean plants.

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Uranus rotates sideways and "rolls" around the sun rather than "spinning" like the other planets.

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There's an ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans: they are 30% more acidic than in 1751.

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The surface gravities of Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all quite similar (within 15%) to Earth's.

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The "Doggone Project" in Germany works recycling deceased pets into fertilizer.

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An astronaut threw a boomerang while visiting the International Space Station and it returned to him, even in the absence of gravity.

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Elvis Presley is considered the best-selling individual artist of all time, with over 500 million records sold.

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In ancient times, Chinese people feared pandas and described them as metal-devouring black-and-white "tapirs."

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Mars

had an oxygen-rich

atmosphere around

4 billion years ago.

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There's a town named "Cool" and another called "Squabbletown" in California.

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It costs US$8,876 per year to own and maintain an average car in the U.S. That's US$443,800 in 50 years.

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After the Treaty of Versailles, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch said "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years." Exactly 20 years and 65 days later, WW2 broke out.

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The Amazon River once flowed in the opposite direction, from east to west.

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India is expected to be the world's most populous country by 2050. With 1.6 billion people, it will almost equal the U.S. and China's population combined.

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During the American Civil War, it was necessary to print out money in a hurry, so the Treasury released paper bills with designated values of fractions of a dollar.

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Noah and Emma were the most popular names in the U.S. for boys and girls respectively in 2014.

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Fossil evidence suggests that fish have been on Earth for about 530 million years.

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Germany's debt from WW1 was equivalent to 96,000 tons of gold.

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In 1989, an innocent man was punished with the death penalty in Texas because the jury confused him for another with the same name, looks and height.

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