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If you're in Iceland beware of the phrase 'I will find you on a beach': this idiom (or threat) means, ' I'll get my revenge,' or 'don't make me hurt you.'♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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85 million years before butterflies existed, there was another insect that looked and acted exactly like a butterfly.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Potato aphids will not have sex if they detect a drop in air pressure.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A party boat carrying sixty men and women capsized in Texas in 2012 after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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94% of the women surveyed who work in the U.S. entertainment industry say they've experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Warren Buffet won a ten-year bet about index funds outperforming hedge funds.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The only difference between fog and mist is visibility: if you can't see more than 100 metres ahead, it's fog, not mist.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Prior to 1868, eating meat from four legged animals had been prohibited in Japan for more than a thousand years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Al Pacino turned down the role of Han Solo.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Russell Crowe turned down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Dutch army had only one tank during WWII.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Most Americans can buy an AR-15 rifle before they can legally buy a beer.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Japanese manufacture Toto built a motorcycle that runs on poop.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Porsche's first car, in 1898, was electric.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A nurse in Italy was accused in 2014 of killing 38 patients because she thought they were “annoying.”♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, once hired 420 mimes artists to make fun of traffic violators because he believes Colombians fear ridicule more than being fined.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A study says 13.9 Million people call in sick or arrive late to work the day after the Super Bowl.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Nazis are believed to have sterilised 400,000 Germans deemed to have lives not worth living.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There cities of Jericho, Luxor, Damascus, Byblos and Beirut have been continuously inhabited for more than 5,000 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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One of the oldest species of animal still with us are the horseshoe crabs who appeared 445 million years ago. They've survived for 75% of the entire span of animal life on the planet.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" was originally called "Who's S-S-Scared?"♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Nigerian film industry, or Nollywood, is the second largest in the world in terms of numbers of films produced.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A study found that 99% of all participants in multi-level marketing schemes lose money.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1996, Australia enacted strict gun laws. It had no mass shooting since.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In Sweden, up to 63,000 people, mostly women, were sterilised under a racial purity programme approved by the state until 1976.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Farmers are encouraged to test soil quality by burying their underpants and digging them up two months later. In good soil they are eaten by microbes; in poor soil untouched.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Throughout his life, JFK had four spinal surgeries, two of them nearly resulting in his death.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Judaism emphasizes that sex is a deeply holy act to be performed regularly, and insists that it be pleasurable for both members of a married couple.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 19th-century Maryland, it was illegal to sell mineral water on a Sunday.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2014, a pair of underpants donated by the mayor of Brussels was stolen from the Brussels Underpants Museum.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
