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In 2016, Mozart sold more albums than Beyoncé.
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During a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, someone donated $35,000 so that VH1 Classic would have to play “99 Luftballons” on repeat for an entire hour.
THE last Giveaway was on PAGE 489!
“A Boy Named Sue” wasn’t written by Johnny Cash. Shel Silverstein wrote it.
In 2015, Belfast police used ice cream truck music to deter teenage rioters.
The term "Hippie" is derived from the term "Hipster," which described jazz fans in the 1940's. Hipsters were known for pot smoking and sarcasm.
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Extreme weather disasters now affect over 170 million people every year, up from 60 million just three decades ago.
Gatorade was named after the University of Florida Gators.
The special forces unit that rescued Captain Phillips was the same unit that killed Osama Bin Laden two years later.
China didn’t win its first Olympic medal until 1984.
"Stranger Things" was rejected 15 to 20 times by different networks before Netflix picked it up.
The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
The Cleveland Browns are the only team to neither play in or host a Super Bowl.
When Christopher Columbus needed a place to store his loot, he went to the Banco di San Giorgio in Genoa, Italy, the world's first public modern bank.
Wilt Chamberlain is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
Some golf balls are filled with honey.
Spiders can tune the strings in their webs to transmit specific messages.
The greenest, safest and most productive buildings in the U.S. are airports, followed by government offices and hospitals.
Despite taking about three hours to play out, the average baseball game only has about 18 minutes of active playing time.
In Japan, there's a museum of rocks that look like faces.
MLB umpires are required to wear black underwear in case they split their pants.
Phoenix, Arizona, used to be named Pumpkinville.
Bo Jackson refused the teams that originally tried to draft him in both baseball and football.
Both volleyball and basketball were invented in Massachusetts.
No sitting U.S. president has visited Antarctica.
. Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls once went eight seasons (starting in 1990) without a three-game losing streak.
Fewer than 26% of eligible American voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.