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Each year, Google receives more than two million job applications from around the world.

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Donald Trump was the most Googled person of 2016 in 88 countries, including Mexico, Spain, South Africa and New Zealand.

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In 2014, individual Americans gave US$258 billion to charity —more than twice the amount given by corporations and foundations combined.

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A NY man spent almost 5 months in prison in 2014, unaware that his bail was US$2.

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After Barack Obama visited Kenya in 2015, two women named their sons Air Force One.

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Oral sex

was illegal

in Singapur

until 2007.

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Before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Saddam Hussein had turned over the day-to-day running of the Iraqi government to his aides and was spending most of his time writing a novel.

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One-armed tennis player Hans Redl played at Wimbledon from 1947 to 1956. He served by tossing the ball up with his racket.

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Fidel Castro made Cuba the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere.

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From Dr. No to Quantum of Solace, James Bond has killed 352 people and slept with 52 women.

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Bees know when it's going to rain, so they put in extra work the day before.

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Bacteria have the smallest eyeballs in nature but the largest relative to their size.

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Steve Jobs was scared of buttons.

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In 1964, 57 people escaped from under the noses of East German border guards, through a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.

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1 in 5 American CEOs have clinically significant psychopathic traits.

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Africa is both the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent.

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More than 60% of pandas born in captivity die within a week.

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The big toe carries the most weight of all the toes, bearing about 40% of the load.

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Only 1 in 10 victims of cyber-bullying tell a parent.

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If you weighed 150 lbs. (68 kg.) on Earth, you would weigh 159 lbs. (72 kg.) on Saturn.

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The historic news of the first manned powered flight by the Wright Brothers first appeared in the magazine Gleanings in Bee Culture.

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The famous barbarian leader Attila accepted hefty subsidies in gold in exchange for not attacking Roman territory — then did it anyway.

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Mark Zuckerberg's AI home assistant is voiced by Morgan Freeman.

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A woman in Jacksonville, Florida, sold her urine and positive pregnancy tests in 2016 on Craigslist to pay for college.

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In 1966, a 26-year-old man successfully fasted for 382 days and lost 276 lbs (125 kg).

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A US$300,000 diamond was lost in an F1 crash in 2004. The diamond was attached to the car to promote Ocean's 12 movie and was never recovered after the crash

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Police in Chile arrested in 2009 a woman bound for Spain who was carrying suitcases made from (rather than filled with) 20 kilos (44lb) of cocaine.

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A boulevard is a big, wide street with trees on both sides. A lane is a narrow, often rural road. A drive is long, winding, and scenic.

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Tiger cubs are vulnerable in their first few months, with mortality as high as 50%.

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Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be photographed at his inauguration.

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