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Credit card EMV chip technology has been around since 1986. It was first implemented in France, with Germany following shortly after.
The odds of being born on February 29th are 1 in 1461.
People who donate blood in Sweden are sent a text message each time their blood saves a life.
In the U.S., around ¾ of all houses possess at least 1 jar of peanut butter.
30 of the first 31 popes were murdered. Most of them were martyred, but not all causes of their deaths are known.
The average U.S. household has 300,000 things, from paper clips to ironing boards. U.S. children make up 3.7% of children on the planet but have 47% of all toys and children’s books.
The commonly known phrase “to a T” means something that fits just right. Interestingly enough, this expression derives from a similar phrase “to a tittle,” which is a small mark that is used in spelling norms, like the dots of i’s or j’s, or an accent mark.
About 25% of all blood from the heart goes into the kidneys.
In Israel, it is illegal to bring bears to the beach.
Rednex, the band that remixed and popularized Cotton Eye Joe, is not Southern but Swedish. They all have Southern-sounding stage names.
BuzzFeed sponsored content costs about $20,000 for five or six “articles.”
Comets only reflect 4% of the light that falls on them, the rest is absorbed.
The name for the shape of Pringles is called “Hyperbolic Paraboloid.”
Writing down your worries before taking an exam can help combat test anxiety, improve performance and boost your test scores.
The highest body count in film history goes to “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” with 836 on-screen deaths.
There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
While filming Rocky IV, Lundgren hit Sylvester Stallone for real, and he ended up in the hospital for nine days.
For almost 15 years, Vermont was technically its own country before joining the United States in 1791. It had its own coins and postal service.
An adult’s kidney weighs about 5 ounces (142 grams) and is the size of a fist.
Without saliva, humans are unable to taste food.
The German Autobahn has no speed limits because Western Germany saw them as a Nazi relic. This became effective in 1972.
If you ate nothing but rabbit meat, you would die from protein poisoning. This would be a mixture of too much protein and an absence of fat in the diet.
The loudness of a monkey is relative to the size of its testicles. Researchers found that the smaller the testicles, the louder the monkey.
Every Pixar movie contains a reference to the Pixar movie that comes after it.
Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46 and is known as the “happiest prisoner on death row.” He went into the gas chamber with a smile. It turned out he was innocent.
There exists a plankton, Dinoflagellates, which, if consumed, reverses your feeling of hot and cold – as well as hallucinations. Symptoms can last from weeks to years.
Red pandas have no living relatives – they aren’t even related to giant pandas.
After Christianity, the largest religious affiliation in the U.S. is Judaism.
Ewok Jerky was a popular snack across the Outer Rim in the Star Wars Universe.
Italy built an entire courthouse to prosecute the Mafia. They charged 474 members in a trial that lasted from 1986-1992. To date, it was the biggest trial in the world.