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Judges are more lenient after lunch, a study found.

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Peacocks fake sex sounds to attract females.

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80% of what we learn is through our eyes.

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Pope Francis has never used the Internet.

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Adding salt to a pineapple will actually cause it to taste sweeter. It reduces the bitterness of the fruit.

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When the ex UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died, the song "Ding dong! The witch is dead!" reached number 2 in the UK charts.

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Commercial pilots who fly on international flights and the flight controllers who the pilots talk to are required to be able to speak English, the international language of flight.

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60%

of the construction done at Machu Picchu was underground.

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In 2010, the Merriam-Webster dictionary was banned from certain schools in California on account of its "sexual" content.

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Squids squirt water out fast enough to propel themselves through the air at up to 11.2 metres per second, faster than Usain Bolt's top speed of 10.31 metres per second.

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Black Sabbath, the heavy metal band, was originally called Polka Tulk Blues Band.

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The word ‘ushers' contains five pronouns: us, she, he, her and hers.

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Brazilian footballer Carlos Kaiser staged his whole career for 24 years: he could barely kick a ball. In the first training session with every new team, the con man usually suffered a "muscle injury" that would keep him out for an indefinite period.

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Ophidiophobia is the abnormal fear of snakes.

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Disneyland serves 2.8 million churros every year.

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Haiti was demanded compensation from France

shortly after gaining independence for its loss of men and slave colony.

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Emmanuel Macron's father has published extensively on the physiology of sneezing in cats.

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Oxford University discovered if someone prods one of your middle toes while your eyes are shut, most people can't tell which toe is being touched.

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Lab tests have shown that cats don't love you the way dogs do. Tests has shown that a dog releases Oxytocin (the "love hormone") in their brains at much higher levels when compared to cats.

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All European monarchs occupying the throne today are descended from one man: John William Friso, Prince of Orange.

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The workforces of Colombia and India enjoy a leisurely 18 days off per year, making them the two countries with the most public holidays in the world.

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John Lennon paid all of the fines for 96 people who had been arrested in 1970 for protesting against the apartheid South Africa rugby team playing in Britain.

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There's a Testicle Festival

in Montana every summer.

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There are between 2.9 million and 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin, according to a research produced by Cambridge University in 2017.

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At 73 years old, Ronald Reagan received a recruiting letter from the Marine Corps while he was President.

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Ancient Egyptians used 12 months of exactly 30 days, with 5 days of festivities at the end to add up to 365.

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There was only one plane allowed to take off after flights were grounded on September 11, 2001. It was a plane carrying antivenin to a man bitten by a highly venomous snake.

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In North Welsh, the word for ‘now' is rwan, in South Welsh it is nawr, the same word spelt backwards.

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Craters on Mars under 60 kilometres in diameter are named after towns on Earth with populations under 100,000.

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In the year 20860, the Islamic and Christian calendars will finally agree.

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