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The French military actually has the best military record in Europe. Out of 168 battles fought since 387BC, they have won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10.

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Migrants committed 142,500 crimes in Germany during the first six months of 2016.

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Cockburn

is a town on the border of South Australia.

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Worldwide, people consume 500 extra calories a day from sugar, which is roughly the amount of calories needed to gain a pound a week.

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Jihadists killed 94 people inside the United States between 2005 and 2015. During that same time period, 301,797 people in the U.S. were shot dead.

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Many farmers use llamas to guard their livestock from predators.

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As a war correspondent during the Boer War, Winston Churchill was paid £10k a month in today's money.

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George Washington is also known as the "Father of the American Foxhound," and kept more than 30 of the dogs.

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2.9 million

breast cancer survivors are alive in the U.S. today.

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Japanese Princess Aiko decided to stay home for a few months in 2010 due to bullying from her classmates.

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An MIT-educated biologist, Katharine McCormick, inherited a substantial family fortune and funded the development of the first birth control pill in the 1950s.

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There are more than 100,000 flights globally per day.

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In Argentina, an orangutan was granted the right to life, liberty and freedom from harm.

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Researchers placed an exercise wheel in the wild and found it was used extensively by mice without any reward for using it.

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The average American thinks a quarter of the country is gay or lesbian, when in reality, the number is approximately 4%.

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Miniskirts are illegal in Uganda.

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The average American eats 1 in every 5 meals in the car.

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Elon Musk had to borrow money to pay rent after he invested all US$180 million earned from PayPal on SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City.

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The largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, was 1,400 times more powerful than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

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Every month, U.S. residents send US$2 billion across the border to family in Mexico,

which accounts for almost 3% of the Mexican economy.

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Research has found that the more visually creative a person is, the lower the quality of their sleep.

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Astronaut Scott Kelly grew 2 inches after being in space for a year.

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Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics just so that he could play Spider Man in his own produced movie.

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In Roman times, men held their own testicles as a sign of truthfulness while bearing witness in a public forum.

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You can fit over US$20 million in a mattress.

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1749 out of 1750 species of cacti are native to only the Americas.

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People who play video games are more likely to be lucid dreamers, having control over their actions in dreams, than those who don't.

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The people of Shitterton, UK, banded together to buy a big rock to put the name on, as people kept stealing the sign.

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King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for an estimated 10 million deaths in the Congo.

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The seven sins according to Gandhi: "Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without principle."

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