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The average Australian cat eats more fish per year than the average Australian.

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In 2015, President Obama made it legal for Americans to own asteroids.

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Cuttlefish have 3 hearts.

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A book credited to George H. W. Bush's dog spent 23 weeks on the U.S. bestseller list.

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Abraham Lincoln only had a beard for the last 5 years of his life.

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Adolf Hitler was the first European leader to ban human zoos.

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Researchers tried 2000 times to ignite gasoline with a cigarette and failed.

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Jesus never talks about homosexuality in the Bible.

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The Queen of England is related to Vlad the Impaler.

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October 1st was the 274th day of the year and Las Vegas massacre was the 273rd mass shooting of 2017.

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The German Parliament building has a glass dome above it that people can climb using a spiral ramp. The dome symbolizes that the people are above the government, and the government should be transparent.

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In early 2017, a Romanian government's decree decriminalised corruption offences in which the sums involved were less than 200,000 lei (about £38,000). Half a million people protested until it was repealed.

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The Kiwi fruit used to be called ‘melonettes'.

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Playboy had a transgendered model pictorial in 1991.

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It's more stressful to be a waiter than a neurosurgeon, a study found.

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In order to eliminate gender bias, many orchestras use blind auditions in which the candidates play their instrument behind a screen.

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1 in 6 U.S. men

have experienced an

abusive sexual relationship

before the age of 18.

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The name Donald comes from the proto-celtic "Dumno-ualos" which means "ruler of the world".

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Moriusaq, Greenland had a population of 3 in 2009. A case of self-defense dropped the population to 2.

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Airbags inflate in just 30 milliseconds.

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The surface of the Moon covers less than the area as Asia.

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In 2015, an abandoned airport in Spain, that cost €1 billion to build, received just one bid for €10,000 after going up for auction.

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Regular mammograms actually increase the risk of dying of breast cancer.

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Arsenalna station, in Kiev, is the deepest metro station in the world is 105.5 metres (346 ft) below street level.

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Tanning beds are banned in Australia.

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In many Israeli schools, algebra is taught without the use of the symbol "+" as it looks like a Christian cross. They use an inverted "T" instead.

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More money was spent buying Central Park land than all of Alaska.

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The first issue of Playboy, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot. It sold over 50,000 copies.

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The first dinosaur to be named was called "Scrotum humanum" because of the found bone's resemblance to a pair of human testicles.

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A man can get physically stuck inside a woman during sex. It's usually caused by vaginal spasms.

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