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Twitter has enough money in the bank to run for 412 years with current losses.

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Frank Sinatra never formally learned how to read music.

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A study found that right-handed individuals have better oral hygiene and the lower incidence of caries because of their better manual dexterity and brush efficiency.

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Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon, claimed that "Aliens have contacted humans several times”.

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Papua New Guinea is the world's most expensive place to take a shower, with the cost of a typical 8-minute rinse approaching US$3.50. That's 70% of an average person's daily income.

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The Eiffel Tower is not fully illuminated 24/7. Since 2013, it shuts off the lights at 1AM to conserve power.

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Tupac Shakur's godmother was convicted of killing a police officer, escaped prison, and fled to Cuba where she has been living since 1979.

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The oldest known customer service complaint —which was about inferior copper ingots— was written on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia 4000 years ago.

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The man who invented the McDonald's Big Mac burger in 1967, Michael "Jim" Delligatti, died in 2016, aged 98.

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Costa Rica became in 2012 the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport.

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Dinosaurs didn't roar; they may have mumbled with their mouths shut, research suggests.

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Group singing has been scientifically proven to lower stress, relieve anxiety, and elevate endorphins.

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The Canadian Province of Alberta has been rat-free for over 50 years.

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Pelota purépcha, is one of many pre-Hispanic games Mexico hopes to revive, like hockey but played with a flaming ball.

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Indonesians are the world's shortest people.

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The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica took Isaac Newton 2 years to write. It was the culmination of more than 20 years of thinking.

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As a result of the Holocaust, about 20% of Italian Jews lost their lives.

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Denmark charges a tax of 150% on all new car purchases.

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From 12 March 1944, Britain barred all travel to Ireland in order to prevent the leaking of the date of the D-Day landings.

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Inside the Berlin Wall ended up the ironically-named the Church of Reconciliation. GDR authorities ordered the church to be dynamited in 1985.

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About 2 in 3 Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they are 70.

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Some captive female sharks have been known to reproduce without the aid of a male, essentially cloning themselves.

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A refereeing decision in a soccer match between Argentina and Peru in 1964 led to a riot in which 300 fans were killed.

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Only 1600 victims were identified of the 2749 present when the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11.

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African elephants can disperse — with their dung — over 2000 seeds of diverse plants per square kilometre, every day.

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Tumucumaque National Park, situated in northwestern Brazil inside the Amazon Rainforest, is the world's largest tropical forest park. It's bigger than Belgium.

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In 1492, the Catholic monarchs of Spain issued a decree banning all Jews. Sultan Bayezid, a Muslim, then sent the Ottoman navy to rescue them.

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Japanese Death Row inmates are not told their date of execution. They wake up each day wondering if it might be their last.

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160,000 U.S. children miss school every day due to a fear of bullying.