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The full name of the city of Los Angeles is “El pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula”.
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Iran comes second in number of gender reassignment surgery (first is Thailand).
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Plague is not eradicated actually: the WHO took a census of 2118 cases in 2003, among which 182 were fatal.
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Chiropters (commonly known as bats), are the only mammals capable of flying.
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During the American Civil War, the general Lee’s Southern troops called themselves “Lee’s Miserables”, as a tribute to Victor Hugo’s book, Les Misérables.
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It’s only in 1990 that the World Health Organization took the decision to withdraw homosexuality from its list of mental diseases.
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The Porsche 901 presented at the Frankfurt exhibition in 1963 was removed from the market at the beginning of its production in may 1964. Indeed, Peugeot company had already registered all car names with 3 digits and a zero in the middle.
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Titles on the spines of books are oriented differently whether the print is French or English.
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The longest beard ever was 3 meters 30 centimeters long (10ft 11”) and was grown by a Frenchman called Louis Coulon.
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