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79% of Americans would take a pay cut to work for a company that's more "just" in their business practice.

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In 1986, London's bakers apologised for the Great Fire of London, 320 years after it happened.

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Hidden inside Grand Central Station, in New York, is the Vanderbilt Tennis Club.

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The Crucian Carp can live without oxygen for months.

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Mars has no magnetic field.

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George Clooney sold insurance door-to-door before being famous.

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Swaziland has banned witches from flying above an altitude of 150 meters in 2013.

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The first aircraft carriers were designed to carry hot-air balloons.

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"Million Dollar Point" is an area in the Pacific where the U.S. army dumped all its equipment after WW2 because it was cheaper than bringing it home.

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In seven U.S. states you can change your vote after you've cast it.

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A two-inch oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day.

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The state of New Mexico has an

official state question: ‘Red or green?'

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The national sport of Turkey is oil wrestling.

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In 1987, Richard Nixon's wife predicted that Donald Trump would one day become the President if he decided to run for office.

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The US State Department is located in Foggy Bottom.

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The Indonesian flag is the same

as the Polish flag upside down.

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Before becoming "Posh Spice", Victoria Beckham used to dress up as a sperm for a BBC sex-education show.

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90% of Iceland's female population went on strike on October 24, 1975, demanding equal rights. They did not work, do housework, or look after their kids for an entire day.

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In 2005, a young nun in Romania died at the hands of a priest during an exorcism after being bound to a cross, gagged, and left for days without food or water in an effort to expel demons.

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Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was also the first known LGBT astronaut.

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In the films "Rocky," (1976) and "Rocky Balboa,"(2006) Rocky's pet turtles were played by the same two turtles.

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To understand a pun, your brain's right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of the joke.

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The UK invaded and occupied Iceland in WW2 after the country claimed neutrality.

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John Travolta owns a Boeing 707 and his house has an airport.

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Madagascar got its name from Marco Polo, who mistakenly thought he landed in Mogadishu, Somalia, and then misspelled the name of the city.

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Under the original terms of the U.S. Constitution, the President could not choose his vice president, instead it was the candidate with the second most votes.

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More Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water and electricity.

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The U.S. tried to purchase Greenland from Denmark for US$100 million in 1946.

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A coconut has been detained by Maldivian police in 2013 on suspicion of vote-rigging in a key presidential election.

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There's a theme park in China called Dwarf Empire where the main attraction is all the entertainment employees are of short stature.

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