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The chief translator of the European Parliament speaks 32 languages fluently.
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Most Medieval Europeans were illiterate and needed visual reminders of hell to get them into church, so gargoyles were invented.
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"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"
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Research shows that all blue-eyed people may be related.
The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
On April Fool's Day in 1976, BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.
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David Bowie helped topple the Berlin Wall.
Cherophobia is the word for the irrational fear of being happy.
The static on TV is referred to as "myrornas krig" in Sweden, meaning "war of the ants."
How you serve food and drink matters in the perception of taste. Hot chocolate tastes better in orange cups, scientists found.
There is a stadium in Brazil in which the midfield line lies on the Equator, making each team defend one hemisphere.
Charles Boycott, an English land agent, was so hated by the community he became a verb.
In 1973, Le Duc Tho became the first and only person ever to voluntarily refuse a Nobel Peace Prize. He negotiated a ceasefire in the Vietnam War but peace was not yet established.
Nearly 30,000 rubber ducks were lost at sea in 1992 and are still being discovered today.
"Death from overwork" is so common in Japan there's even a word for it: Karoshi.
Ants can accidentally misinterpret the chemical trails left by other ants and start walking in circles. If too many members of the colony join in, it can kill the whole colony in what is sometimes known as the 'Death Spiral.'
The inventor of the frisbee was turned into a frisbee after he died.
There's a bridge exclusively for squirrels.
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Noah Webster learned 26 languages, including Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit, in the process of writing "An American Dictionary of the English Language."
Subway footlongs aren't always a foot long.
Humans are born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds. Every other fear is learned.
Sean Connery was once pulled over and fined by a British police officer for speeding. The officer's name was Sergeant James Bond.