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No man-made object has survived on Venus for more than 127 minutes.
The average incomes of British pensioners are higher than those of working-age Britons.
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In 2011, United States business entities incurred $29 billion in direct costs because of patent trolls.
Ashton Kutcher is the co-founder of Thorn, an international anti-human trafficking organization that works to address the sexual exploitation of children using software technology.
Saudi Arabia has been ruled by the same family for longer than the United States has been a country.
Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo gave his agent a Greek island as a wedding present.
46% of couples engage in "Netflix cheating," watching Netflix shows without their partner, even when they've agreed to watch it together.
In Finland, people call their country Suomi.
Google's Android logo derives from the Atari Game called "Gauntlet: The Third Encounter".
There are more spanish-speaking people in Los Angeles than english-speaking.
The reason the Pentagon is not a high-rise is because of the steel shortage during WW2.
Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin were good friends.
In 1798, Napoleon invaded Rome, arrested Pope Pius VI, and imprisoned him in France where he died a year later.
Charles Darwin married his first cousin and had 10 children. 3 died as infants and 3 were infertile. He was the first to raise the question if incest may cause weaknesses in offspring after studying inbred plants in his garden.
Infamous crime boss Al Capone played music and wrote a love song while he was in Alcatraz.
When 12-year-old Muhammad Ali's beloved bicycle was stolen, he reported the theft to a police officer who was also a boxing trainer. He helped Ali win his first fight in just six weeks.
If you are nominated to a Nobel prize, you'll likely never know unless you win.
Genghis Khan was in his early 20s when he gathered many Mongol tribes together under his leadership.
The simultaneous translation system developed by IBM allowed the Nuremberg Trials to be conducted 4 times faster than if consecutive translation was used.
Fidel Castro once ran for Congress as a candidate for the opposition Orthodox Party. But the election was scuttled because of a coup staged by Batista.
O.J. Simpson almost played the Terminator, but James Cameron thought his persona was “too pleasant” to portray such a dark character.
There's a secret room inside Lincoln's head in Mount Rushmore that was meant to be a vault of American history, but the sculptor died before it could be completed. Over 50 years later, it was partially completed by 4 generations of his family.
The Vikings buried their dead in boats according to their Norse religion.
Karl Marx was a European news correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune in the 1850s.
The Apollo program employed more than one half a million people.
Rjukan (Norway) and Viganella (Italy) are both situated in deep valleys where mountains block the sun's rays for up to 6 months every year, so they built gigantic mirrors to reflect daylight downwards.
Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane. British Royal protocol is that two heirs should never fly on the same flight together so that the royal lineage is protected.
Albert Einstein renounced his German citizenship in the German Kingdom of Württemberg to avoid military service in 1896 and became stateless for 5 years. He acquired Swiss citizenship in February 1901, Austrian citizenship in 1911, and American citizenship in 1940.