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The Chicago Cubs victory parade of 2016 was the seventh largest gathering in human history.

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The allies considered dropping glue to stick Nazi troops to the ground.

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'Flabbergasted' was first recorded in a 1772 list of new words alongside 'bored'.

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The last war chief of the Crow Tribe captured 50 horses from the Germans in World War II.

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2-1-1 is a U.S. 24/7 hotline run by the United Way that assists people in need by connecting them with assistance programs that may help them.

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An albatross can fly over 600 miles without flapping it's wings.

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About 25% of people in the U.S. with college degrees don't have a job and aren't even looking.

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According to a 2002 study in the U.S., about 45% of homeless adults had worked in the past 30 days.

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Disney makes twice as much money from their theme parks than what they make from their actual movies.

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The world's tallest church, Ulm Minster in Germany, is being eroded away because men keep peeing on it.

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Scientists have nicknamed a caterpillar the ‘Trumpapillar'. Its venomous barbed hairs cause irritation and pain.

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Americans are as likely to believe in Bigfoot as the Big Bang Theory.

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The study of deliberate propagation of ignorance is called agnotology.

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Donald Trump spent about half of what Clinton did on his way to the presidency during the 2016 election.

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Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Sections of NYC's Metropolitan Museum are women, but 85% of the nudes are female.

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McNuggets come in four official shapes: bell, bone, boot and ball.

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Arizona doesn't observe Daylight Saving Time, but residents of its Navajo nation do. However, inside of it there's another reservation that does not.

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Canada's immigration website crashed on U.S. election night of 2016.

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In France, Germany, Austria, Spain and the Netherlands they serve beer in McDonald's.

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A ‘batman' was a unit of weight in the Ottoman Empire.

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The standard service of a Bugatti Veyron would cost you US$21,000.

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A trained person can walk across hot coals because coal is a poor conductor of heat. It takes time for heat to transfer from coal to skin.

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More people work for Walmart than live in Slovenia.

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After an Islamic cleric blamed women who dress provocatively for earthquakes in 2010, 100,000 women joined for a "Boobquake" to test the theory. Nothing happened.

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Google has a comprehensive timeline of everything you do with their products, called "My Activity", including websites you visited with Chrome, YouTube Videos, Music and apps you use on your Android.

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White tigers carry a gene that is only present in around 1 in every 10,000 tigers.

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American commuters collectively waste 5.5 billion hours per year in traffic, releasing into the atmosphere an unnecessary 56 billion pounds of CO2.

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Fidel Castro took personal responsibility for the persecution suffered by homosexuals in Cuba.

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A recent study estimates that mass-adoption of self-driving cars could reduce over 90% of traffic accidents.