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The Last giveaway was on page #489!
Want to go to Rome? Which one? There’s a city named Rome on six out of seven continents. (You really dropped the ball, Antarctica.)
In 2004, a woman tried to use a fake million dollar bill to buy US$1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart and expected US$998,325 in change.
When visiting Key West, you’re actually closer to Havana than you are to Miami.
Mary, of “Mary Had A Little Lamb” fame, was a real person and the song is based on a true story.
The surname Beethoven meant “beet garden” in Dutch.
“Happy Birthday” was the first song ever played on Mars. Mars Rover Curiosity played the song to itself on its first anniversary on the planet.
In 2010, a Chicago Theatre company presented a version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" in Klingon language and a Klingon setting.
While listening to music, your heart can sync to the rhythm.
There's a book called "Everything men know about a women" that is just 120 blank pages.
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President Nixon was an accomplished musician. He played five instruments, including the accordion.
Houdini drew on his arsenal of magician's tricks to provide special instructions to American troops during WWI.
Got a song stuck in your head? That’s called an “earworm.”
In 1945, an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building. When rescuers attempted to rescue an elevator operator, the cable snapped, plunging her 75 stories down. She survived and still holds the record for longest survived elevator fall.
None of The Beatles could actually read music.
Jack Kerouac typed his novel "On the Road" on a 120-foot roll of paper in 3 weeks.
However, George Harrison could reportedly play 26 instruments.
An artificial intelligence system developed by Google and the University of Oxford can lip read better than humans.
Barry Manilow did not, in fact, write “I Write The Songs.”
Metallica is the only band to perform on all seven continents.
Italy has the biggest gender gap when it comes to carving up chores. Italian women clock up 21 hours more per week than men on housework.
Most department stores tend to play slower music, in order to slow down customers and keep them shopping longer. The opposite is true for restaurants.
In 1949, a flock of starlings perched on the minute hand of Big Ben, slowing it by 4.5 minutes.
Monaco’s orchestra is bigger than its army.
In 2014, Hawaii attempted to combat homelessness by providing one way tickets back to the mainland for any homeless person who wanted one.
A concert promoter once sold a thousand tickets to a Spice Girls concert in Hawaii that was never actually booked. Maybe that’s where they got the idea for Fyre Fest.
Leo Fender, the inventor of the Stratocaster and the Telecaster, couldn’t play guitar.
A Pythagorean cup will automatically empty itself if you fill it too much.