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Did You Know? 'The Hunger Games' three fingered salute has become an unofficial symbol of resistance in Thailand against the recent military coup.

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Did You Know? According to the FDA, the stickers on fruit are edible.

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Did You Know? The Postmaster General of the United States is the second highest paid government official after the President.

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Did You Know? A San Francisco Highway Patrol Officer, called Kevin Briggs, has talked around 200 people out of suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge since 1994.

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

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Did You Know? The Wall Street Journal is the only news organization trusted by majorities of both strong liberals and conservatives.

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Did You Know? In the U.S., staged wrestling is called 'professional wrestling' while real wrestling is called 'amateur wrestling'.

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Did You Know? At age 15, Jim Carrey quit school and became a janitor to support his family after his father lost his job. They were living out of a van.

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Did You Know? Asking people for small favors trains their brain to believe they like you.

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Did You Know? When faced with major illnesses, individuals with a great social network are in a better position to survive.

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Did You Know? A flower worn over the left ear in Hawaii signifies that a woman is no longer single.

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Did You Know? 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   0   519

Did You Know? In Japan, the odds of being killed by a gun is about the same as an American's chance of being killed by lightning.

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Did You Know? President Obama gets to watch advanced episodes of 'Game of Thrones' episodes before the rest of the world.

  Sep 26, 2018   0   347

Did You Know? A librocubicularist is someone who reads in bed.

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Did You Know? It is estimated that 1 out of 10 children in Europe were conceived on an IKEA bed.

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Did You Know? Mountain Dew is slang for moonshine. It was originally created as a mixer for moonshine and whiskey in Tennessee.

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Did You Know? The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, ate a spoonful of the stuff every single day.

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Did You Know? The first toothbrush was invented in 1498

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Did You Know? The longest movie made lasts 85 hours and is fittingly titled ‘The Cure for Insomnia‘.

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Did You Know? People in Iceland read more books per capital than any other country

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Did You Know? The Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years

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Did You Know? Both Nicholas Cage and Michael Jackson shared the same wife, Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.

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Did You Know? The largest margin of victory in an international football match was in a 2002 World Cup qualifier: Australia 31–0 American Samoa

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Did You Know? In the early days of football, before penalty shoot-outs were a thing, the winner of a game that ended with a draw was decided by a simple coin flip.

  Jul 2, 2018   0   676

Did You Know? There is a bank in Italy that accepts Parmigiano cheese as collateral for small business loans.

  Jul 2, 2018   0   581

Did You Know? The Nobel Peace prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each other‘s shoulders.

  Jun 26, 2018   0   420

Did You Know? Bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium

  Jun 20, 2018   0   283

Did You Know? 70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer.

  Jun 19, 2018   0   720

Did You Know? Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.

  Jun 19, 2018   0   580

Did You Know? There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive the average car 4 times around the world.

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Did You Know? According to the Guinness World Records, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is the second-most popular song in the English language, following "Happy Birthday to You" and followed by "Auld Lang Syne".

  Jun 19, 2018   0   1727

Did You Know? Alaska law says that you can’t look at a moose from an airplane.

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Did You Know? If a female ferret does not have sex for a year, she will die.

  Jun 14, 2018   0   841

Did You Know? Approximately 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

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Did You Know? The Vatican City is the country that drinks the most wine per capita at 74 liters per citizen per year.

  Jun 14, 2018   0   656

Did You Know? The Statue of Liberty’s full name is a bit of a mouthful ‘Liberty Enlightening The World’.

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Did You Know? The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) owns 1.5% of the world’s Bitcoins.

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Did You Know? The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.

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Did You Know? The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

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Did You Know? McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users”.

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Did You Know? Over 100 million copies of the Bible are sold each year.

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Did You Know? When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

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Did You Know? Steve Jobs father was a Syrian immigrant.

  Jun 13, 2018   0   518

Did You Know? In France it is illegal to name your pig "Napoleon".

  Jun 13, 2018   0   829

Did You Know? The Bible mentions all sorts of domesticated animals – with the exception of the cat.

  Jun 13, 2018   0   508

Did You Know? Norway has a town called “Hell”. It freezes over quite regularly.

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Did You Know? Japan keeps a train station in operation in a small village to enable a single small girl to commute to school. The train goes only twice a day, when she goes to school and when she returns.

  Jun 13, 2018   0   712

Did You Know? If you don’t stand up in a Thai cinema when the national anthem is being played, it is considered a criminal offence.

  Jun 13, 2018   0   778

Did You Know? If you don’t flush a public toilet after yourself in Singapore and get caught, expect a fine of at least 150 USD, and that’s only if you’are a first-time offender.

  Jun 13, 2018   0   1068

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