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Washington Square in New York used to be a cemetery with over 20,000 people buried there.

  Mar 23, 2019   411

Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

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An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

  Mar 11, 2019   140

Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character, including villains, and was the first Disney Princess to be shown killing people on-screen.

  Mar 5, 2019   133

If you keep going North, you will eventually go South but, if you keep going East, you will never go West.

  Feb 26, 2019   503

An egg contains every vitamin except vitamin c

  Feb 14, 2019   124

There are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body

  Feb 7, 2019   100

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

  Dec 5, 2018   706

A heartbroken Argentinian farmer in the town of General Levalle spent decades cultivating the guitar-shaped forest that he created to honor his late wife.

  Oct 26, 2018   452

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.

  Oct 26, 2018   525

The King James Bible has inspired the lyrics of more pop songs than any other book.

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Several global surveys suggest that half of all women who die from homicide are killed by their current or former husbands or partners.

  Oct 26, 2018   385

It's not illegal to go topless in New York City.

  Oct 26, 2018   654

Every year, nearly 4 million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.

  Oct 26, 2018   600

If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.

  Oct 26, 2018   906

Many expensive perfumes contain sperm whale feces known as 'Ambergris'.

  Oct 26, 2018   533

Leonardo Da Vinci was the first to explain why the sky is blue.

  Oct 26, 2018   717

There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people on the planet.

  Oct 26, 2018   500

The word 'bride' comes from an old Proto-Germanic word meaning 'to cook'.

  Oct 26, 2018   647

Residents of Churchill, Canada leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter polar bears.

  Oct 26, 2018   561

There's a species of fish called 'Slippery Dick'.

  Oct 26, 2018   405

The song Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving.

  Oct 26, 2018   470

The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.

  Oct 26, 2018   565

China has secret military-style boot camps for Internet addicts.

  Oct 26, 2018   452

The first webcam was created in Cambridge University to check on the coffee levels of a coffee pot.

  Oct 26, 2018   485

English has only one word for 'love'. Sanskrit has 96.

  Oct 26, 2018   445

In Spanish, the word 'esposas' means both 'wives' and 'handcuffs'.

  Oct 26, 2018   422

A Bonsai Tree planted in 1626, survived the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and now resides in a U.S. Museum.

  Oct 26, 2018   447

During the 18th century, you could pay your admission ticket to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.

  Oct 26, 2018   583

Google was originally called 'Backrub'.

  Oct 26, 2018   857

Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic.

  Oct 26, 2018   396

Hedwig, Harry Potter's owl, is named after the patron saint of orphaned and abandoned children.

  Oct 26, 2018   440

According to the Vatican, Catholics can reduce their time in purgatory by following the Pope of Twitter.

  Oct 26, 2018   362

The Statue of Liberty was originally intended for Egypt.

  Oct 26, 2018   402

From 1814 to 1830, the flag of the Kingdom of France was plain white.

  Oct 26, 2018   737

OJ Simpson was originally cast to play Terminator, but director James Cameron did not feel that Simpson would be believable as a killer.

  Oct 26, 2018   382

After racking up $40 in late fees for a VHS, Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix.

  Oct 26, 2018   412

A 'gut feeling' is a chemical signal that your stomach creates to warn the brain of danger.

  Oct 26, 2018   398

Studies show that apes experience dips in happiness in their middle age, much like people do.

  Oct 26, 2018   373

Since 2011, there have been at least 4 incidents of people cooking meth inside of a Walmart.

  Oct 26, 2018   364

In Mexico, the Tooth Fairy is known as the 'Tooth Mouse'.

  Oct 26, 2018   514

There is a smile activated refrigerator which requires users to flash a smile before it will unlock the refrigerator door.

  Oct 26, 2018   385

In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker, called 'Whipping Tom', who would spank his victims with a rod and shout 'Spanko!' before running away.

  Oct 26, 2018   613

When a giraffe's baby is born, it falls from a height of 6 feet, usually without getting hurt.

  Oct 26, 2018   315

Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.

  Oct 26, 2018   705

In 2012, a China man wore 70 pieces of clothing items on a flight to avoid paying extra baggage charges.

  Oct 24, 2018   419

In 1942, there was a man called the Phantom Barber. He would break into people's houses in Mississippi at night and cut their hair.

  Oct 15, 2018   420

Fidel Castro has slept with over 35,000 women.

  Oct 15, 2018   472

The 'Bio-Bus' is a bus service in the UK that is powered by poop.

  Oct 15, 2018   206

Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.

  Oct 15, 2018   174

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