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

  Mar 23, 2019   82

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

  Feb 26, 2019   117

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

  Dec 5, 2018   211

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   176

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

  Oct 26, 2018   461

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   133

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

  Oct 26, 2018   262

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

  Oct 26, 2018   169

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

  Oct 26, 2018   253

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

  Oct 26, 2018   251

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

  Oct 26, 2018   153

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

  Oct 26, 2018   147

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

  Oct 26, 2018   191

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

  Oct 26, 2018   256

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

  Oct 26, 2018   139

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   222

The New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, went to a doctor and a vet to confirm that he is a human being and not a shape shifting lizard from space.

  Oct 26, 2018   154

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

  Oct 24, 2018   151

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   139

Male kangaroos flex their biceps to impress females.

  Oct 15, 2018   88

In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.

  Oct 15, 2018   202

The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

  Oct 15, 2018   97

A 'quidnunc' is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.

  Oct 15, 2018   72

An alleged Virginia bank robber denies robbing a bank because he asked the teller 'politely'.

  Oct 15, 2018   164

A cyclist was removed from the World Naked Bike Ride in Kent after being spotted with an erection from getting 'overexcited and aroused'.

  Oct 15, 2018   171

A British Airways flight to Dubai was forced to return to Heathrow Airport because someone took a dump that smelled so bad it was unbearable for passengers.

  Oct 15, 2018   95

You could cover the Great Wall of China 8 times with the number of jars of Nutella sold in a year.

  Oct 15, 2018   117

Krusty the Clown was originally created to be Homer Simpson's secret identity.

  Oct 15, 2018   320

A 'butt' was a unit of measure for wine in Medieval England.

  Oct 1, 2018   101

Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert.

  Sep 28, 2018   193

In 2005, a Chinese cosmetics firm used skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe.

  Sep 28, 2018   91

In 2009, Nigerian Police detained a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.

  Sep 28, 2018   107

Despite his profanity-laced songs, Eminem does not allow swearing in his home.

  Sep 28, 2018   92

Licence plates in the Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.

  Sep 28, 2018   272

Eggs boiled in the urine of young virgin boys are a spring delicacy in Dongyang, China.

  Sep 27, 2018   119

Facebook changed their 'feeling fat' emoji to 'feeling stuffed' after thousands of people signed an online petition to protest.

  Sep 27, 2018   223

Toe wrestling is a national sport in Britain. It involves 2 opponents who lock feet and attempt to pin the other's foot down.

  Sep 27, 2018   221

Mobile phone throwing is an international sport that started in Finland in 2000. Participants throw mobile phones and are judged on distance or technique.

  Sep 27, 2018   106

Studies have shown that people really do take longer to leave a parking spot when someone's waiting for it.

  Sep 27, 2018   90

Puppy pregnancy syndrome is a psychosomatic illness where the sufferer believes that they are pregnant with puppies after being bitten by a dog.

  Sep 27, 2018   69

Puppy pregnancy syndrome is a psychosomatic illness where the sufferer believes that they are pregnant with puppies after being bitten by a dog.

  Sep 27, 2018   150

South African scientists have discovered that 400-year-old tobacco pipes excavated from the garden of William Shakespeare contained cannabis.

  Sep 27, 2018   73

The IKEA HQ in Delft, Netherlands had to stop offering their 1 Euro breakfast on weekends because the highways couldn't handle the traffic it attracted.

  Sep 27, 2018   132

The word 'Gorilla' comes from a Greek word that means 'A tribe of hairy women'.

  Sep 27, 2018   175

Google offers employees free condoms that come in blue, red, green, and yellow and have the phrase 'I'm Feeling Lucky!' printed on them.

  Sep 27, 2018   163

Students at China's University of Electronic Science and Technology are forced to write out 1,000 emojis every time they are late for class.

  Sep 27, 2018   105

In the U.S., staged wrestling is called 'professional wrestling' while real wrestling is called 'amateur wrestling'.

  Sep 27, 2018   81

A pet penguin in Japan named La La walks into town by himself with a backpack every day to collect fish from the local market.

  Sep 26, 2018   165

If you Google search 'askew', the content will tilt slightly to the right.

  Sep 26, 2018   115

A California man who made a personalized license plate that said 'No Plate' and received more than 2500 parking tickets.

  Sep 26, 2018   124

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