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Some interesting facts

• 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.