1. Kangaroos keep cool by licking their forearms.
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  2. Homer is the only character in The Simpsons to have dialogue in every episode.
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  3. Until 1970, United Airlines had ‘men only' flights serving steaks, brandy and cigars.
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  4. The Beatles, Garth Brooks and Elvis are the best-selling artists of all-time in the U.S.
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  5. Operation Vegetarian was a British military plan during WW2 to disseminate linseed cakes infected with anthrax spores to be eaten by German cattle.
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  6. About 1 in every 3 songs recorded by Billy Joel were top 40 hits.
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  7. Facebook has 43,030 full-time employees as of September 30, 2019.
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  8. A Canadian man who was freed in 2017 after being held in Afghanistan by Taliban-tied kidnappers for 5 years said he thought his captors were joking when they told him Donald Trump was president.
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  9. Blind people are twice as likely to smell things in their dreams as sighted people.
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  10. There are more than 1,000 species of banana. We eat only one of them.
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  11. It is illegal to reproduce photos of the Eiffel Tower at night.
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  12. Indians read more than 10 hours per week on average, the most for any country in the world.
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  13. New York City is actually rainier than London.
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  14. Although Shakespeare's works run to more than a million words, only 14 exist in his own handwriting.
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  15. 200 years ago, 80 to 90 languages were spoken in what is now California.
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  16. Steven Spielberg's ex-wife received a divorce settlement of $100 million after a judge invalidated a prenuptial agreement he had written on a napkin.
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  17. Sea lions love the smell of cinnamon.
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  18. Liver failure makes your breath smell of raw fish.
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  19. Books may not enter or leave Tajikistan without written permission from the Ministry of Culture.
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  20. Google has a database of 25 million books that nobody is allowed to read.
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  21. There's a missing link in the European bison lineage that scientists call the "Higgs Bison" as a hat-tip to the discovery process of the Higgs boson.
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  22. Collectively, humans have watched Adam Sandler movies on Netflix for longer than civilisation has existed.
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  23. In the UK, drivers who cause death while using their mobile phones, speeding or drunk, face life in prison.
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  24. A half-smoked Winston Churchill cigar sold for $12,000 in 2017.
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  25. You don't gain and lose fat as your weight fluctuates. Your fat cells just bigger or smaller.
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  26. In 2016, the U.S. Marine Corps changed 19 official job titles, such as “infantryman,” to a gender neutral alternative, like “basic infantry Marine.”
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  27. Taylor Swift was born into wealth. Her father had a stake in Big Machine Records, her first record label.
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  28. In the U.S., peanut butter must contain 90% peanuts, otherwise it must be called "peanut spread."
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  29. The Brazilian wax was invented in New York.
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  30. Opossums defend themselves by faking their own death.
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