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A physicist faced with a fine for running a stop sign in 2012 proved his innocence by publishing a mathematical paper. He even won a prize for his efforts.

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The grasshopper mouse eats scorpions, centipedes, snakes and even other mice.

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There are about 120,000 Jews of Ethiopian descent in Israel. Ethiopian Judaism is nearly identical to that practiced 2,000 years ago during the Second Temple Period.

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The idea that "Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day" came from a company trying to sell more cereal during its 1944 marketing campaign.

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Watermelon Steaks are suggested by many cookbooks as a meat substitute for vegetarians.

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Alaska is geographically big enough to fit 19 U.S. states within its borders.

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A white American became a Japanese citizen, and successfully sued a business that refused entry to non-Japanese for racial discrimination in 2001, winning US$25,000 in damages.

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The town of "Sexmoan", in the Philippines, changed its name in 1991 to "Sasmuan" because its sexual connotation.

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In 2015, life expectancy in the U.S. decreased for the first time since 1993.

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Cincinnati is named after Cincinnatus, a ruler of the Roman Empire who saved Rome from crisis and then retired to his farm rather than rule.

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From July to September 2001, heavy downpours of red-coloured rain fell sporadically on the state of Kerala, India.

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In Morocco, goats poop out undigestible seeds which are collected, processed and turned into very expensive cosmetics and food.

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Parrots can die of arrhythmia, heart attack or stroke.

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Typhus killed 90% of Napoleon's soldiers on Russia. Fleas and lice were sufficient to spread the disease and kill more than 500,000 men.

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Jesus' name translated from Hebrew to English would be 'Joshua'. We get the name 'Jesus' by translating the Hebrew name to Greek to Latin to English.

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In 2003, two men stole an empty Boeing 727 from the Luanda International Airport and flew it into the sunset. They have never been found.

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A Swedish woman "married" the Berlin Wall in front of a few guests in 1979. She was devastated when most of it was torn down in 1989.

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A 30-year-old woman from India, who claimed to have fallen in love with a snake, got married to the reptile in 2006.

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A company called LifeGem creates diamonds from the ashes of your loved one.

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Underwater hockey was invented in the 1950s in Britain and is played with snorkelling gear, a stick, and a puck weighing over one kilogram.

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With 190 billionaires and more than two million millionaires, China tags just behind the U.S. in number of high-net-worth individuals.

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Whales are so big, they can take up to 100 years of creatures consuming them to decompose.

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Every year, a half marathon, marathon and a 100K run take place in Antarctica despite an average windchill temperature of -20°C.

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The world's most expensive iPhone 5 was worth US$15 million. It was made of 135 grams of 24-carat gold and the chassis was inlaid with 600 white diamonds.

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