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Stars on Brazil flag are arranged as they were on November, 15th. 1889 at 8:30 AM, proclamation of the Republic of Brazil.
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Rasputin, Russian mystic healer, was killed by cyanide poisoning, beating, execution blank range, and finally thrown into an icy river. His autopsy revealed that it was the river that killed him.
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In 1958, a five-year-old female rhinoceros named Cacareco won Sao Paulo’s council elections.
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Earth's rotation speed, for something located on the equator, is 1,040 mph.
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Baruya people venerate sperm, so much that women have as much intercourse (marital or extramarital) as possible when they're pregnant, in order to give birth to a strong baby.
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The first music video ever broadcast on MTV was the Buggles' “Video Killed The Radio Star”.
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The construction of a shadow Paris intended to lure the Germans had been initiated during WWI.
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Mill Ends Park (Portland, US-OR) is the world-smallest park and covers a total area of 452 sq in (0.292 m2).
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The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris Montmartre has been the host of a continuous prayer since 1885.
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Qwerty keyboards were created to slow down the typing (and to split apart the letters often used consecutively).
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A municipal decree forbids flying saucers to fly over and to park in Chateauneuf-du-Pape (France).
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Almost a thousand horses died in the Lake Ladoga when the water suddenly froze.
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There is a shellfish which does not only parasite a fish but literally replace its tongue. This is the only known case of complete replacement of an organ.
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In Switzerland, if you fail too many times your driving test you might have to consult a psychologist to check your ability to drive.
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The Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry (and was not made in Bayeux).
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Castaways from the ship Utile have survived 15 years on the small Tromelin Island, which is only 200 acres almost without any vegetation.
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The forerunners of roller coasters were called “Russian Mountains”. In Russia, they were and are still called “American Mountains”.
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In 1964, the French TV anchorwoman, Noëlle Noblecourt, was fired for showing her knees.
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The greek playwright Aeschylus was killed by a tortoise, dropped on his head by an eagle.
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Selling Jack Daniel's is illegal in the county where it is produced.
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Teresa of Ávila died in the night of the 4th to the 15th of October, 1582.
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Le Train de Nulle Part (The Train from Nowhere) is a French novel written without a single verb by Michel Dansel in 2004.
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The only state which does not want to join the U.N. is Vatican City.
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The full name of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is : Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.
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While watching at the sun, you will see it as it was 8 minutes ago.
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The famous distress signal SOS (· · · — — — · · · in morse code) does not mean anything! For sure, it has no link with Save our souls which is a backronym.
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Whether a circle is composed of 10, 100 or 1000 people, everyone has to step back 11 inches (28 cm) in order to fit one new person in the circle.
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The famous anecdote that explains the absence of a Nobel prize in mathematics by the fact that Alfred Nobel's wife cheated on him with some mathematician is false!
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A swift can fly 2 or even 3 years without landing, which makes it the world champion of nonstop flight…
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The famous red telephone booth has been inspired by the dome of a tomb.
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An adult octopus can easily swim through a hole the size of the space between its eyes.
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The first French satellite was called Asterix. It was launched on 11/26/65.
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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is the fear of the number 666.
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Consumption of beer worldwide is estimated to be around 125 billions liters per year, i.e. not less than 50,000 Olympic pools.
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Statistically, there are a bit more than two Popes per sq. km in the Vatican City State.
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The famous sign “Peace” (☮) was the insignia of the Wehrmacht 3. Panzer-Division (1941–1945).
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Considering a group of 40 people, there are 89% chances that two of them are born the same day.
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According to a 1990 US Study, the more educated a person is (ie. the higher the degree the person obtained), the more he / she masturbates.
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The success of the arcade game Space Invaders caused a shortage of 100-yen coins in Japan, which forced the government to increase their production subsequently.
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Orson Welles asked Walt Disney to make an adaptation of “The Little Prince” with him. Walt Disney refused.
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The highest point of Maldives is lower than a basket on a basketball court.
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In 2009, there was an average number of 62 Lego bricks per human being on the planet.
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The male Bonellia viridis, or Green Spoonworm, is so small that he lives inside the female!
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In Chinese, Kung Fu means “Freedom” (literally “achievement of the human effort”).
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In 2006, the Audi R10 TDI achieved victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This was the first time ever that a car powered with a diesel engine won that race.
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In Spain, apes have been granted rights similar to humans since June 2008.
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Hiroo Onoda was one of the last japanese soldiers to surrender after the defeat of Japan in World War II. He was ordered to lay down his arms on the island of Lubang in 1974 (29 years after the end of WWII).
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Nicolas Sarkozy never graduated from Sciences-Po (French School of Political Science) due to an insufficient command of the English language.
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Purring releases endorphins that help cats to ease the pain and reassure themselves.
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A strong kiss can cause an imbalance in the air pressure between the two inner ears and lead to a broken ear drum!
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In France, wearing a mustache is finally not mandatory for gendarmes since 1933.
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Papua New Guinea has more than 800 languages. It is actually more than any other country.
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The sample “It Began in Afrika” from the title track of the Chemical Brothers released in 2001 has been used by IAM (a french hip hop band) in 1991 for the title “Red, Black and Green”.
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A volume of the book A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Looking for Lost Time) by Marcel Proust contains one of the longest sentence in French literature: 856 words.
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The American pharmaceutic firm Amgen has been sponsoring the cyclist tour of California since 2006. Amgen is the first producer of EPO worldwide.
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James Brown has served 3 years in prison (from 1988 to 1991). He was convicted of carrying an unlicensed pistol and on drug consuming charges.
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The first anti-smoking campaigns were launched during the Third Reich.
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This French expression has nothing to do with the Beaufort required to make our dear cattle’s horns fly away.
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The DeLorean time machine used in the trilogy “Back to the Future” could have been a freezer!
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Every year, the french cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris has as many visitors as Disneyland Paris.
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King Edward II of England (1284 – 1327) is believed to have been killed by the insertion of a red-hot iron rod in his rectum.
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Since 1997, Steve Jobs has taken home no more than a single dollar for his salary.
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John B. Root, currently known as a pornographer, used to be a children’s book writer.
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In Ancient Greece, a man was considered more virile if he had a small penis.
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Movies are shorter on television than in movie theaters. Nothing is cut off, but the speed is slightly increased.
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Arthur Rimbaud suddenly abandoned poetry in 1875, and was later known as a weapons merchant in Abyssinia.
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France has been using the German time zone since the German occupation during WWII.
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In the USA, a federal law made it illegal to have contact with “extraterrestrials or their vehicles”. Enforcement of the law led to a fine of 5000 dollars or a one year prison term.
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It's usually said that the Great Wall of China is “the only human building that can be seen from space”...actually it's false.
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The famous Hamburger sandwich comes from Hamburg.
The Hot-Dog comes from Frankfurt (name before americanization: Frankfurter)
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only man who survived both atomic bombs (at least the only that was officially recognised)...
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Dark chocolate has the property to reduce the blood pressure level.
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It is impossible to put a finger in the nose, one in the anus and one in each ear simultaneously.
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Charlie Chaplin secretly took part in a Chaplin look-alike competition in San Francisco. He came in third.
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As of 2005, one hundred billion Bic pens have been sold all over the world. It represents enough ink to draw a line from here to Pluto and come back… more than 20 times.
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80 billion human beings have been born on the planet since the first humans, and half of them in the last two millennia !
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A cockroach can live up to several weeks headless before it dies of starvation.
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The motto of the former British Empire (England / United Kingdom) is in French, not in English!
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Peyo invented the word “schtroumpf” (later translated as “smurf” in English) meaning “salt”, as he was asking Franquin to pass it.
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The Eiffel Tower should have been dismantled after the Universal Exposition of 1889 for which it had been built; the Eiffel Tower has especially been saved by telegraphy.
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HP founders tossed a coin to decide whether they would call their company Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
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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 record of the longest beard ever is owned since 1927 by a Norwegian, Hans N. Langseth. His beard mesured 5 meters 33 centimeters long (17ft 6”).
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For the american edition of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, 217 475 trees were cut.
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Mansuetus and Lynx, Spontex administrators, got married in fall 2007.
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The world's smallest book is “Teeny Ted From Turnip Town”, and measures 0.1mm by 0.07mm.
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Most pirates had two eyes in perfect condition, but kept an eye patch on one of them to keep it adjusted to darkness, facilitating night navigation and the passage from the upper deck (in daylight) to lower bridges (very dark).
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In the Star Wars universe, there are spaceships, laser beams, anti-gravitational modules but the holographic communications sound like a 1920's phone.
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Before becoming a battle cry in the mouth of kamikaze, “Banzai” was used to express respect for the emperor, wishing him happiness and longevity, and it is still in use today.
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Osama Bin Laden and Chuck Norris celebrate their birthdays on the same day!
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In 2005, a Welsh rugby fan named Geoff Huish had so little faith in his national team's victory against England that he declared : “If Wales win, I'll cut my balls off.”
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LSD is the most expensive material available. When comparing the price per kilo, LSD is 4 times as expensive as diamonds.
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The optic line of a Compact Disc is 3.5 miles long !
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The longest swimming pool in the world is located in Algarrobo, Chile, and is 1,013 meters long.
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According to a survey, young people consider that music is even more important than sex.
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Coke in a glass bottle tastes better than coke in a can, which, in turn, tastes better than fast-food's one.
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Almost everybody has a number of feet above the average of the population.
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One woman out of two takes up to 50 pieces of clothing in her luggage for only two weeks of holidays.
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The green colour of this flag stands for the Catholics, orange for the Protestants, and white for the harmonious link between both religions.
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A CD has a radius of 4.7 in (12 cm) for a playtime of 74 minutes because it is the playtime of Beethoven’s 9th symphony.
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The eradication of cats, due to superstitions and beliefs about witchcraft, allowed the spread of the plague.
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HARIBO comes from “HAns RIegel, BOnn”, creator of the company, followed by the name of the city where he created it.
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Before starting Apple in their garage, Steve Wozniak (and, to some extent, Steve Jobs himself) used to be quite well known in the Phreak/Blue Box community. Wozniak' nickname was… “The Woz”!
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The modern pizza (as we know it nowadays) has been invented in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito.
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Georges Washington used to grow cannabis in his garden.
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