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During mating season, mouse lemur testes swell to be bigger than their brains.

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During the siege of Paris in 1870, all the city's animals were eaten, including rats, mice, dogs, cats, donkeys, wolves and even an elephant.

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Hamsters can store half their own weight in food in their cheeks.

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Suring the Panic of 1893, JP Morgan used $60 million in bonds to bail out the United States government.

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Milkshakes were originally alcoholic.

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There's a bridge in Scotland from which dogs frequently leap to their deaths, and no one knows why.

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You are 50 times more likely to be killed by bees than win the lottery.

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After the assassination of JFK in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said to his wife, "This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society."

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It is mandatory for all North Koreans to vote, even though there is only one candidate for each office on the ballot.

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Netflix was founded back in 1997.

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Japanese Kamikaze pilots were allowed to return if they didn't find a suitable target. One pilot was shot after his ninth return.

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There is more money loaded on Starbucks cards and the Starbucks mobile app than some banks have in deposits.

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Small animals such as flies and hummingbirds experience time in slow motion, which is why they can avoid your newspaper swats.

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A multipart study found that beautiful people are more likely to be involved in unstable relationships.

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The U.S. government initially reacted favorably to the Cuban revolution, seeing it as part of a movement to bring democracy to Latin America.

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One litter of baby hedgehogs can have several fathers.

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A Belgian minister arrived by bike to a news conference to promote cycling in 2017, only to find it had been stolen when he left half an hour later.

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Even after "That '70s Show" made her famous, Mila Kunis worked at a Rite Aid ice cream counter.

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In 2013, it was reported that there were only around 30 women who are citizens of Vatican City.

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St. Julian the Hospitaller is the Catholic Church's patron saint of circus workers and fiddle players.

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Overbooking is not illegal and every airline does it to maximise their revenue.

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Over $43 billion worth of unopened, edible food is thrown away in the U.S. every year.

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Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith. He was 28.

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“Derealization” is a dissociative phenomenon that causes the external world to feel dreamlike. 74% of people have experienced it.

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Easter will be on April Fool's Day in 2018.

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Christopher Columbus's strained relationship with the Spanish crown led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500.

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All cats, including tigers, have a distinct scent associated with them due to their individualized scent glands.

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Crete has 40 million olive trees, around 60 per inhabitant.

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In Gibraltar, where Jews have lived for about 650 years, there's a special recipe for Passover's charoset replacing apples: the dust of real bricks .

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100 million years ago, 6.5m-long primitive crocodiles were good swimmers but were also capable of galloping across the plains.

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