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• Poker is illegal in Alabama because its a chance game, yet horse/dog races are legal because they're skill games.
• There is a place in outback Australia where New Year's Eve occurs thrice every year due to the intersection of 3 timezones.
• Russia Today (RT) is owned and run by the Kremlin. 
• After seeing the x-ray of her hand for the first time, the inventor's wife proclaimed "I have seen my death!" 
• George Bernard Shaw is the only person to ever win a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award. His play Pygmalion which he won is Academy Award for would later be adapted into the Broadway Musical My Fair Lady.
• Parrot fish eat coral and poop sand, which has helped to create many small islands and the sandy beaches of the Caribbean. 
• Design of a cigarette filter is meant to imitate a cork. Cork was first used as a cigarette filter when the smoking was found to be harmful.
• Darth Vader was indeed able to eat via feeding straws in his collar, intravenously, or orally while in his hyperbaric chamber. In public however, he claimed to never eat or drink.
• Osama bin Laden Had 24 Children.
• An Indian man traveled from India to Sweden on a bicycle to meet his Swedish wife in 1978. The journey took him 4 months and through eight countries. 
• NASA has lost or misplaced more than 500 of the moon rocks its Apollo astronauts collected and brought back to Earth.
• MIT’s youngest ever professor is Erik Demaine, a mathematician who received a PhD at the age of 20 for pioneering work in computational origami.
• In 1861, the entire student body of the University of Mississippi enlisted in the Confederate Army as a single company. They suffered a 100% casualty rate during the Civil War.
• Evidence suggests Neanderthals used boats before modern humans.
• Google Images was created in response to Jennifer Lopez wearing a Versace dress to the Grammy's in 2000, which subsequently resulted in Google's "most popular search query" they had seen to date: Jennifer Lopez's green dress.

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• Park Ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning seven times (estimated as a 1 in 10 octillion chance), even once reporting that he "saw a cloud following him and tried to run away but was struck." He later committed suicide.

• In the ancient Olympics, only men of Greek heritage were allowed to participate, a requirement so stringent that it almost prevented Alexander The Great from participating. 

• Barry Allen's father in 'The Flash' (2015) is the same actor who played the flash in the original 1990's show. 

• Yale University was successful largely because of Jeremiah Dummer, but the trustees of the school did not want it known by the name "Dummer College" opting to name it after Elihu Yale instead.

• The usage of the word "Juggernaut" originated as an allegorical reference to the Hindu temple cars/chariots from the Jagannath Template in Puri, which crushed devotees under their wheels.

• Russel Brand was able to claim 22 million dollars after he divorced Katy Perry, but chose not to for moral reasons.

• There is a volcano in Indonesia that erupts blue lava.

• Just before he was killed in a drive-by shooting, rapper Tupac Shakur (AKA 2pac) was supposed to audition for a role as Mace Windu in Star Wars Episode I.

• Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to recite his inauguration address entirely from memory.The speech was 3,329 words long. 

• The U. S. Constitution contains no express right to privacy.

• A dog from Maryland accidentally ran a half marathon and raised $13,000 for charity!

• A narwhal's 'horn' is actually a single large tusk, technically meaning it's a giant tooth.

• There is a language called Griko that is a hybrid of Greek and Italian and is spoken by roughly 20,000 people in southern Italy.

• The capital of Mongolia was only settled permanently after changing location 28 times, each location chosen ceremonially.

• One of the largest frogs in the world is named " Mountain Chicken"

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• The color now known as "School bus yellow" was especially formulated for use on school buses in North America because this yellow is noticed quicker in peripheral vision than any other color.
• Pure honey is the only food that will not rot. Jars have been found dating back over 3000 years that were still perfectly edible.
• A secret nuclear fallout shelter was built under The Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia to house congress in the event of a nuclear war, the vault doors were hidden around the hotel behind fake walls.
• Pumice can form free-floating rafts so large that they can be mistaken for islands and that animals can migrate between landmasses on them.
• The noises made from the Sarlacc Pit in Return Of The Jedi were made from alligator hisses and upset stomachs of the film crew. 
• If you give a spider different types of drugs, each drug will effect the way the web looks differently. 
• Thanks to an Act of Congress, non-alcoholic beer in the United States can actually contain up to 0.5% alcohol.
• We're the only planet to experience total solar eclipses. And it's entirely coincidental, because the sun just happens to be 400 times larger than the moon while also being 400 times farther away. 
• Making them appear the same size in the sky.During the 1980 Boston Marathon, a woman named Rosie Ruiz was declared the winner with a time of 2:31:56. But soon, it was later discovered that she took the subway rather than finish the entire course.
• Tyrannosaurus Rex is believed to have had a life span of around 28 years.
• Alaskan salmon fisherman feared Bald Eagles were a threat to the salmon population. As a result more than 100,000 bald eagles were killed in Alaska from 1917 to 1953.
• A Billionaire hedge fund founder payed 800 New York teachers an extra $15,000 due to poor teacher salaries.
• The largest known black hole, S5 0014+81, has a diameter of 236.7 billion kilometres, or 47 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto. 
• George Washington's net worth at the time of his presidency (1789-1797) is estimated to have been equivalent to $1 billion today.
• During the Great Fire of New York firefighters were unable to access water because of cold temperatures, so the Marines used gunpowder to blow up buildings in the path of the fire to halt its spread.

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•  Benjamin Franklin designed one of the first U.S. coins and instead of "In God We Trust" it said "Mind Your Business".
• Monopoly is based on The Landlord Game, a socialist board game all about the evils of monopolies with socialist messages.
• US wanted to switch completely to the metric system and is still going slowly towards it.
• There is a village in Nebraska with only one resident.She acts as mayor, and even pays taxes to herself.
• Engineers in Canada receive an Iron Ring to to remind them of the importance of humility. It is in memory of a bridge that collapsed twice due to incorrect calculations involving iron.
• When Saint Lawrence was condemned to death by the Romans he was tied on top of an iron grill over a slow fire that roasted his flesh little by little. His last words were "turn me over, I'm done on this side!". 
• There is a chemotherapy drug that erases your finger prints as a side effect.
• It is illegal for pet stores in Beverly Hills to sell dogs and cats that are not from a shelter or rescue.
• Santa Claus in the Marvel Universe is the most powerful mutant ever detected by Cerebro.
• Steve Jobs wife is the largest shareholder in The Walt Disney Company.She have more shares in Disney than in Apple.
• Cats can become addicted to tuna and refuse to eat anything else. Veterinarians refer to these cats as 'tuna junkies.'
• The Vikings were considered overly concerned with cleanliness for bathing once a week.
• A spaceship accelerating at 1g will reach close to the speed of light in about a year.
• Malaria is thought to be responsible for the death of about half of all people who ever lived.
• Astronauts have to sleep near a ventilator fan or they risk suffocating in a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide

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• A Blue Whale's Tongue Weighs More Than An Elephant.

• The Statue Of Liberty's Index Finger Is Eight Feet Long.

• Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein published a best-selling romance novel that spawned a twenty-episode TV series and a stage musical.

• The name Gary has almost died out. In 2013 there were only 450 new Gary's in the US, in the UK just 28.

• Eton College - one of the most expensive schools in Britain - was originally founded to provide free education to poor boys.

• Sliced bread was originally advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".

• Chess in a mandatory subject in Armenian schools.

• Scotland is #1 cocaine consuming country in the world.

• CIA Project to Overthrow the King of Egypt was Called Project FF (Fat F**ker).

• There is a marine park in Japan where you can shake hands with otters.

• The only Japanese person who survived titanic lost his job because he was known as a coward for not dying with everyone else.

• In 2011 an elderly woman in Georgia cut off Internet access for 90% of Armenia while digging for scrap metal.

• A football mascot, H'Angus the Monkey, ran for mayor as a publicity stunt.

• He was not only elected, but he went on to win a further two terms.

• Welsh government uses Klingon to respond to serious questions about UFOs.

• There's a mountain gap in Mexico that channels the wind, causing 80+ kph gusts called the Tehuantepecer.

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• There is a Moonwalking Bird, called the Manakin.

• Canada Post has an official Santa Claus letter-response program, assisted by about 11,000 volunteers; also Santa Claus has his own Canadian postal code: "H0H 0H0".

• At one point Moammar Gadhafi had a net worth of over $200 billion

• Abraham Lincoln was the only US President who had a patent.

• A tortoise that met Charles Darwin in the 19th century lived until 2006.

• The oldest mosque outside of Mecca/Medina that's still standing is in Guangzhou, China

• Bit stands for Binary Digit.

• Billy Bob Thornton has a phobia of antique furniture.

• WWE Star The Undertaker Fears Cucumbers.

• John Lennon recorded most of the lyrics to "Revolution" while lying on the floor, in an attempt to make his vocals sound different.

• Pornhub asked people to stop uploading the Germany vs Brazil match, as their 'public humiliation category is full'.

• The little dot on top of the letter ‘i’ is called a 'tittle'.

• Albert Einstein's eyeballs are in a safety deposit box in NYC, 'owned' by his eye doctor Henry Adams.

• Abraham Lincoln was a wrestling champion of his county in Illinois back in 1830.

• In 2010 Sir Christopher Lee released and sang in a heavy metal opera all about Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne.

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• In the Japanese localization of "Inside Out," Pixar replaced the scenes involving broccoli with bell peppers, because Japanese kids don't think broccoli is gross.
• Patrick Stewart lost all of his hair at age 18 and thought that no woman would ever be interested in him again.
• President Harry S Truman's middle name is just the letter S.
• There exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.
• Michael Jordan had a contract clause called "For the Love of the Game" allowing him to play pick up games whenever he wanted to.
• Drinking One Soda A Day Can Increase Diabetes Risk By 22%.
•  Bill Gates was Hired to Write the Original Code for Atari but Took too Long and Was Fired, Making Them the Only Company to Fire Gates
• To lose 63 pounds for his role in The Machinist, Christian Bale's daily diet consisted of one can of tuna fish, and/or one apple per day, black coffee, and water..
• Star Wars' Imperial March theme song was played when the King of Saudi Arabia visited the UK.
• "Biweekly" means "twice a week" and "every two weeks".
• Women using birth control pills blinked 32% more often than those not using the contraception.
• October revolution in Russia actually happened in November
• “Moby Dick” was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891.
• Sideburns got their name from Civil War General Ambrose E. Burnside.
• There is a proposed HTTP status code 451 indicating censorship, referencing Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 novel.