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Wembley Stadium in England has the most toilets of any one building, at 2618.

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Generally considered to be the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji was written in Japan around AD 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu.

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The first female governor of a U.S. state was elected in 1924.

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During his first month in office, Donald Trump spent an estimated 18 hours on tweets.

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International Men's Day is celebrated every 19 November, focusing on men's and boys' health, promoting gender equality, and highlighting male role models.

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OJ Simpson's father was a well known drag queen and died of AIDS in 1986.

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500 people are declared dead in the US every month due to clerical errors.

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Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper, he used to sneak into a colleague's office after work to play.

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There are almost 4,000 sushi restaurants across the U.S., which bring in over $2 billion every year.

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Stalin's granddaughter lives in Portland, Oregon, where she sells antiques, vintage clothes, and scented candles.

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Globally, women are paid less than men. Women in most countries earn on average only 60 to 75% of men's wages.

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An extra year of education can help a girl earn 20% more as an adult.

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As a symbol of unity between their two countries, Philip II of France and Richard I of England once slept in the same bed.

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Spraying your clothes with vodka can make them smell better, since vodka kills odor-causing bacteria on the spot.

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62 million girls were out of school in 2014.

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In 2016, the median home price in Palo Alto, California was about $2.5 million.

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Between 1948 and 1998, 20,362 Israelis were killed in wars and 20,852 were killed on the roads.

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Esperanto is the only language with no irregular verbs. French, by comparison has 2,238, Spanish and German about 700 each.

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In 1728, the philosopher Voltaire got rich by outsmarting the lottery. The prize money was larger than the cost of all the tickets combined, so Voltaire and his friend formed a syndicate, bought all the tickets, and won several times.

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In Beijing, one million people live underground in basements and air raid shelters.

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Before he became prime minister of Australia in 1983, Bob Hawke got into the 1955 Guinness Book of Records, for drinking two and a half pints of beer in 11 seconds.

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After Switzerland, the world's largest per capita gold reserves are held by Lebanon.

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85% of the metallurgical pieces in Peru's Museum of Gold are fakes.

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The ‘Heil Hitler' salute is legal in Switzerland as long as it's an expression of personal opinion, not for propaganda purposes.

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In ancient Japan, condoms were made from tortoise shells or animal horns.

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Charles Darwin's last book was called The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms.

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"Mouse potato" is someone who spends a lot of time at a computer.

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Borborygmus

is the scientific name

for when your

stomach growls.

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In 2017, a British Airways flight from London to San Francisco was delayed for four hours because someone spotted a mouse.

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When California joined the Union, the capital was San Jose, then they tried to move to Vallejo and finally settled on Sacramento in 1854.

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