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The longer you spend dating somebody before marrying, the less likely the marriage is to end in divorce.
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It costs almost $290,000 per year in fees to run a hot dog cart near the Central Park Zoo in New York City. This does not include cart incurred costs.
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Around 15% of active Twitter accounts are social bots. This means there are nearly 48 million accounts that are not controlled by humans.
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Contrary to popular belief, only 45% of the London Underground is actually underground.
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In 2013, a plant was genetically spliced that grew tomatoes above ground, and potatoes underground. It is called the TomTato.
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In Indonesian, there is a word, “Jayus,” that means “A joke told so poorly, and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh.”
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Overwhelmingly, red states have the highest rate of dog ownership, while residents of blue states are more likely to keep a cat as a pet.
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Frederick Douglass was the most photographed man of the 19th Century. He wanted to ensure an accurate depiction of Black Americans during the Civil War.
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Apple seeds, cherry apricot, and peach pits contain cyanide, but it takes a large amount of each to actually make you sick or kill you.
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In Australia, there are nearly twice the amount of kangaroos as there are humans.
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During the Prohibition era, the U.S. Government allowed Whiskey to be sold through pharmacies. As a result, Walgreens grew from 20 retail stores to almost 400.
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15% of iPhone users use an iPhone with a broken screen.
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Baby owls are called “owlettes.”
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The EU didn’t want to showcase any country over another, so the architecture on each EU banknote was created by a computer to make neutral designs.
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Elephants can die of a broken heart if their mate dies.
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The average person takes 12 seconds to count to 24.
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It’s an Australian tradition to eat sausages at polling places on election day called Democracy Sausages. For many communities, this is the biggest fundraising event of the year.
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For her part as June Boatwright in the 2008 movie “The Secret Life of Bees,” Alicia Keys learned to play cello within 4 weeks.
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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has such severe dyslexia that he didn’t read his first novel until he was 38.
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Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was also the voice of Shredder from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
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The fear of cooking is known as Mageirocophobia and is a recognized phobia.
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In Cambodia, rats are being trained to sniff out land mines. They can clear 200 square meters in less than 35 minutes, which usually takes 2-3 days with a de-miner.
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10% of Filipinos (approximately 10 million people) live overseas. The country with the highest amount is the United States, with almost 4 million Filipinos.
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The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.
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President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested while in office. He was charged, booked, and released for speeding on a horse and had to pay a fine.
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Paddington Bear has 2 birthdays (just like the Queen). Paddington celebrates his birthdays on June 25th and December 25th.
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Dogs have a total of 42 teeth when they are fully grown.
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Originally, cigarette filters were made out of cork, the look of which was incorporated into today’s pattern.
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In the early 1900s, there was a pod of killer whales who helped humans hunt down other whales in Australia. They would do this for the fins and tongues of the captured whales as rewards, and this agreement was known as “The Law of Tongue.”
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During 9/11, some fighters took off without live ammo, knowing that to stop the hijackers, the pilots might have to crash their fighters into the planes.