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A female president's husband would be known as "First Gentleman".
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Portuguese is spoken more in Angola and Mozambique than it is in Portugal.
A Russian scientist attempted to achieve immortality by transfusing his blood with that of young people. He died after accidentally transfusing his blood with that of a malaria victim.
New York's subway is the only rapid transit system in the world that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, almost nonstop since 1904.
McDonald's paid Justin Timberlake about US$6 million to sing the "ba-da-ba-ba-bah" jingle in the first U.S. "I'm Lovin' It" TV spots.
Spartan men were not allowed to live with their families until they left their active military service at age 30.
An estimated 80% of available jobs in the U.S. never get posted or advertised.
Sunscreen SPF is a very nonlinear metric. An SPF of 15 blocks 93% of incoming radiation, SPF 30 blocks 97% and SPF 50 blocks 98%.
5 million Americans play video games for 40 hours a week, the equivalent of a day job.
Almost all of the 30 countries with the highest birth rates are in Africa.
Mexican scientists turned a shot of tequila into diamonds by heating it to 800˚C.
Henry Ford tried to build an American industrialist utopia in the Brazilian jungle, "Fordlandia", to secure a source of cultivated rubber for his cars.
No U.S Navy submarine is ever considered "lost" if it does not return. It's considered to be "still on patrol."
Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. Ronald Reagan had them removed.
A five-year-old boy passed a Microsoft exam in 2014 to become the youngest person to become a Microsoft Certified Professional.
Gender equality in the workplace could add US$4.3 trillion to the U.S. economy by 2025, a 2016 study found.
Arabic numerals, like the ones we use today in English, were actually invented in India.
Currency shaped like knives was in circulation in China from 770 to 220 BC.
During WW2, most people believed Germany would quickly crush the Soviet Union in 3 to 6 months. It took three and a half years and they lost.
Dubai man Mohammad Basheer bought a lottery ticket before boarding an Emirates flight that crashed. He escaped the crash and won the lottery.
Tigers wait until dark to hunt. Their night vision is six times better than that of humans.
In the Saxon Kingdoms of Britain, 240 "sterlings" were minted from a pound of silver, hence the currency "Pound Sterling."
Stonehenge was built at least 300 years before the Egyptian pyramids.
Eddie Eagan is the only person to ever win gold medals in both the Winter and Summer Olympics: boxing and bobsled.
Jupiter doesn't orbit the sun's center. It orbits a spot in empty space between it and the sun called the barycenter.
In Korea, everyone is one year old from the time they are born, and everyone gets a year older on New Year's day.
The air pressure weighing down on you at any given time is the equivalent of a small car about 1 ton.
The Waldorf Astoria Hotel once had its own private railroad track at Grand Central so that its guests could clandestinely enter and exit New York City.