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Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, a native of Brazil, renounced his US citizenship in 2011 to avoid paying $700 million in taxes.
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In 2010, there was a traffic jam in Beijing, China that lasted 9 days and 100km.
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Mussolini was expelled from school when he was 10 for stabbing a classmate. He did the same thing at his next school.
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Spider’s webs are traditional Polish Christmas decorations, as the spiders wove a blanket for Jesus according to a polish legend.
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The first known illegal act on the internet was committed in 1973 by one of the first ARPANET engineers. He sent a request for return of his electric razor following a conference in England. At that time, personal use of the internet was unlawful
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Due to its placement on a prominent tectonic fault, Tokyo is referred to by geologists as ‘the city waiting to die’.
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A hen turns her egg nearly 50 times each day to keep the yolk from sticking to the side.
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The world record for the most non-stop push-ups is 10,507 , set by a man named Minoru Yoshida in 1980.
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Along with being accused of cannibalism, early Christians in the Roman Empire were considered atheists because they denied all the other gods.
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Jupiter’s gravity will eventually cause Mercury to crash into the Sun or to be ejected from the Solar System. This could happen in 3–4 billion years when the two planets fall into sync and Jupiter's gravitational tugs accumulate.
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Morality predates religions and it is exhibited by higher animals.
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Astronauts do not consume sodas or carbonated drinks in space because the lack of gravity to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach leads to a kind of vomiting called “wet burping.”
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving in the USA inadvertently helped popularize pregaming (drinking before going out).
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A pen knife is so named because it was used for sharpening a quill to make a pen nib.
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There is a pill that makes you poop gold and it is sold for $425. They are completely edible and are ideal for people who want to bling out their feces.
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The Earth’s day/night cycle is growing longer year-by-year and 620 million years ago, the Earth day was 21.9 hours long.
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The most expensive Christmas tree was constructed in 2010. It was worth £6,975,880($8,660,206) and was on display at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. It had 181 pieces of jewelry adorning it.
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Sea ice is drinkable because it has a tenth as much salt as sea water does. This is because ice will not incorporate sea salt into its crystal structure.
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The word Christmas comes from the old English meaning Christ’s mass (Cristes maesse).
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A blue whale can consume as many calories in a single mouthful as an average person consumes in roughly 180 days
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The US city of Philadelphia is known as “The City of Brotherly Love” because it’s composed of the Greek words for love (phileo) and brother (adelphos).
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In 2015, the world’s first Christmas card commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in 1843 sold for £8,469 ($10,513.84). The hand-colored card pictured a family drinking wine.
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Justin Bieber was banned from China in 2017 in order to ‘purify’ the nation.
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Calculations requiring more than 10^120 bits are impossible because the universe hasn't existed long enough for such a process to complete, even with near-instantaneous data transmission @googlefactss #funfact
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A co-founder of the Weather Channel said that global warming is a “scam”.
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South Africa has no legally defined capital city. Power is shared between Cape Town (Parliament), Bloemfontein (Administrative), Pretoria (President & Cabinet) and Johannesburg (Constitutional Court).
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The Earth experiences about 760 thunderstorms every hour.
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The average dog can learn 165 words, count up to 4 or 5 and even have a basic understanding of arithmetic.
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Freshwater fish only “drink” water through their skin via osmosis, while saltwater fish also drink water through their mouths.
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