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When Facebook acquired Instagram for about $1 billion, the company had just 13 employees.
Espresso has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages, but because the usual serving size is much smaller, the total caffeine content is less than a mug of standard brewed coffee.
Patrick Stewart was so skeptical about the success of "Star Trek" that he didn't unpack his bag for six weeks.
PAGE 456!
HYPE REMINDER!
My hands are freezing!
If it ever went up for sale, the White House would cost anywhere from $90 to $369 million.
About 30% of solar radiation is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed by oceans, clouds and land masses.
Issac Newton invented the ridges along the edges of coins, still in use today, to prevent theft.
To prepare for his role in the film 'The Mask of Zorro', Antonio Banderas practiced with the Olympic fencing team in Spain for 4 months.
Mageirocophobia is the fear of having to cook.
Some people never develop fingerprints.
There are now more U.S. states that have completely legalized cannabis than states that completely ban it.
Marco Polo's trip across Asia spanned 24 years and he didn't travel alone; he went with his father and uncle.
At 16, Walt Disney quit school and, with false documents, joined the WWI Red Cross Ambulance Corps and was sent to France.
Sales Tax Rate (VAT) in Bhutan stands at 50%.
All tortoises are in fact turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises.
Salvador Dalí made a painting for the prisoners at Rikers Island (NY), which hung in the prison dining room for 15 years. In 2003, the painting was stolen by 4 guards.
Christopher Columbus was not a scholarly man and yet, he learned Latin, Portuguese, and Castilian, and read widely about astronomy, geography, and history.
Mozart wrote numerous letters, and even an entire song, focused solely on poop.
In Hong Kong, more than 300,000 domestic helpers – mostly Filipina and Indonesian women – work up to 18-hour days, 6 days a week, for just HK$4,310 (US$ 555) a month.
In 1846, California was ruled by Mexico and the settlers in protest declared the territory an independent country for only one month.
From 1901 to 2012, 863 Nobel Prizes were awarded. Only 43 women were recipients.
Louis Armstrong was arrested at the age of 11 and learned music while in detention for 18 months.
Al Capone never served in the army, even though he claimed his scars were war wounds.
There's a brewery in Germany that's almost 1,000 years old. It has been in continuous operation since the year 1040.
The moveable metal type was not first used for the Gutenberg Bible. Korean and Chinese books were produced the same way centuries earlier.
The Mona Lisa hung on Napoleon's bedroom wall for years.
There are 417 bridges in Venice and 72 of those are private.
Like people, birds that live in the city are louder, meaner, and more stressed out than their country cousins.
J. R. R. Tolkien typed the entire 1,200-page manuscript of The Lord of the Rings trilogy with two fingers.