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Germany had highest numbers of asylum requests in 2015.

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Michael Phelps considered suicide after the 2012 Summer Olympics. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation to help other people with mental illness.

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There's a baby called Netflix de Jesús Rodríguez Restrepo in Colombia.

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Lighting hasn't brought down a plane since 1963, due to careful engineering that lets the electric charge of a lightning bolt run through the plane and out of it.

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US$ 22 million

were earned by 7-year-old YouTube star Ryan, from Toysreview, in 2018.

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Drinking six or more coffees a day can

increase your risk of heart disease by up to 22%.

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By 2018, the U.S. has 101 people who owe at least $1 million in federal student loans.

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For many Icelanders, WW2 is actually known a “the blessed war" because the country has the war to thank for its independence.

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When Steve Jobs was at his deathbed, he asked for five different oxygen masks so that he could choose the one with the best design.

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The only road out of Equatorial Guinea on the mainland during the mandate of its first president was mined.

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If you want to learn about monsters and ghouls in real life, you can get a PhD in Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh.

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Nearly 40% of the world lived under Marxist governments in the late 20th Century.

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The national anthem of Ukraine is called

‘The glory and the freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished'.

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In 1916, there was a proposed Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote. Anyone voting "yes" would have to register as a volunteer for service in the army.

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Spinraza, a drug for spinal muscular atrophy, has a list price of $750,000.

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An IKEA in the Netherlands had to cancel their 1 euro breakfast special because it attracted too many customers and caused traffic jams on the highway.

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All Bran is only 87% bran.

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General Electric is the only company remaining from the original Dow Jones index of 1896.

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As global temperatures rise, flowers are emitting less scent.

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After just under a year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly's gene expression changed significantly and it's different to his identical twin brother's DNA.

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By the end of 2019, Facebook had offices in 70 cities worldwide.

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One of the late Stephen Hawking's widely-accepted theories is that black holes aren't black.

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Amazon's largest warehouse is the size of 17 American football fields.

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770,000 people living in England cannot speak English well.