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If you weighed 150 lbs. (68 kg.) on Earth, you would weigh 351 lbs. (159 kg.) on Jupiter.

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A 15-year-old Lady GaGa appears in “The Sopranos” Season 3.

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An "idiot plot", according to film critic Roger Ebert, is a movie plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots.

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U.S. and EU law requires electric cars to make artificial noise to make them safer for pedestrians.

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In California, you're about as likely to be shot by a toddler than die in an earthquake.

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Experiencing new things slow down our internal sense of time, studies have found.

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The book "Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide", which consists of 266 blank pages, became a #1 best-seller on Amazon in 2017.

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Lynda Carter only had $25 in her bank account when she was cast as Wonder Woman in the 1970s series.

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In Italy there is a fountain that flows 24-hours a day with red wine.

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In 1967, Picoazá, Ecuador, elected a brand of foot deodorant as the town's mayor.

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Dublin is home to Ireland's National Leprechaun Museum.

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Movie-goers eat 28% more popcorn when watching a sad movie.

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Outer space is only an hour's drive away, if you somehow drove your car straight upwards.

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Beer was illegal in Iceland until March 1, 1989. Now, the date is celebrated every year in Reykjavik as Bjordagur, or Beer Day.

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Partly in response to

the civil rights movement

Crayola changed the name of

“flesh” crayon to “peach” in 1962.

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Eight of the top ten largest stadiums in the world are university football stadiums in the United States.

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The oldest razor-like object has been dated to 18,000 B.C. and people have shaved since prehistoric times.

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Microsoft was about to use "Prepare to Fly" as a slogan for Windows XP launch but dropped it because of 9/11.

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The most disproportionately common physical injury diagnosis in Hawaii is "arm injury."

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You can be sued for breaking off an engagement in about half of U.S. states.

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The 1999 Ig Nobel Peace Prize went to the inventors of cars with flamethrowers, used to prevent carjacking.

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Machu Picchu was built around 1450 at the height of the Inca Empire, but abandoned by the time the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1572.

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Stravinsky had an affair with Coco Chanel in the summer of 1920. He was revising the Rite of Spring and she was about to launch Chanel No. 5.

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Aphantasia is a condition in which some people are unable to visualise mental images.

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Three friends in their early 20's were sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1997 for removing a stop sign as a prank in the U.S. and causing the deaths of 3 people.

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Antibiotic resistance could lead to over 10 million deaths per year which could make it a bigger problem than cancer.

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Pineapples were very expensive in the 1700s, so American colonists would rent a pineapple and carry it around a party to show their wealth.

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Dolphins shed the top layer of their skin every two hours.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of a seminal philosophical work on education, gave up his 5 children to a foundling hospital, saying he "didn't have the means to take care of them."

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A transplanted great toe decreases in size up to one third when transplanted to the hand.

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