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Some interesting facts

• 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.