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On a QWERTY keyboard a typist's fingers cover 20 miles a day; on a Dvorak keyboard it's only one mile.
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You can die instantly after being struck by dropping coconut.
Ernest Hemingway received 36 shock treatments for depression, some of which impaired his memory so badly that he couldn't remember his name.
There's an actual course on Harry Potter being taught at Ohio State University.
The original Oreo cookies have a 71% to 29% cookie-to-cream ratio.
Roald Dahl, author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," was a taster for the Cadbury chocolate company when he was a boy.
"Aha Ha" is a species of Australian wasp.
Cuttlefish can change color almost instantaneously to match their surroundings and avoid predators, despite being colorblind.
Fucking Hell is a beer named after the village of Fucking in Austria.
OpenCola is a brand of open-source cola, where the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable.
Adrian Carton de Wiart served in the Boer War, WWI and WWII; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a POW camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.
The Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Canada and is the most popular pizza in Australia.
Franz Kafka hoped to write budget travel guides, but could not find any funders for this endeavor.
Pennsylvania still charges its citizens an 18% tax on alcohol to pay for damages of the 1936 Johnstown flood.
People who swear more often are more honest than those who don't, a study found.
There is an underground vault in Denmark containing every Lego set ever.