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Did You Know? In Russia, it is forbidden to speak positively about or to defend homosexuality in front of minors.

  Jun 13, 2018   0   448

Did You Know? If you drink and drive in Italy and you reach over a certain limit of alcohol in your blood, you won’t lose just your driver’s license and freedom, you’ll say good bye to your car, too, which will be seized by the state.

  Jun 13, 2018   0   508

Did You Know? If you live in Switzerland in an apartment building, you mustn’t flush your toilet after 10 pm; if you’re a man, you also may not pee standing up after 10 pm – the tinkle is just too annoying for the neighbors.

  Jun 13, 2018   0   1107

Did You Know? It was forbidden to buy or sell condoms in Ireland up to the 1990s.

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Did You Know? More than 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays have been produced, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language.

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Did You Know? According to the IFFHS, Pelé is the most successful league goal scorer in the world, with 541 league goals. In total Pelé scored 1281 goals in 1363 games, including unofficial friendlies and tour games, for which he was listed in the Guinness World Records for most career goals scored in football.

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Did You Know? Camels are the only animals that can carry heavy loads from place to place in the desert because they can go for long periods without eating or drinking water.

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Did You Know? If you kept yelling for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat up a cup of tea.

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Did You Know? When you talk, you spray around 2.5 microscopic saliva droplets per word.

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Did You Know? In Germany, you are allowed to drive your car naked if mood takes you that way, but you may not get out of it naked.

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Did You Know? Black Insomnia is the strongest coffee in the world. Though doctors discourage consuming more than 400mg of caffeine in a day (about 4 cups of regular coffee, 10 cans of soda, or two ‘energy shot’ drinks), drinking a cup of Black Insomnia gives you nearly double that amount, because just one 12oz serving contains 702mg of caffeine.

  Jun 11, 2018   0   526

Did You Know? People once thought amethyst could cure drunkenness. The Ancient Greeks called it ‘amethystos,’ which literally translates as ‘not drunk,’ because they believed it could prevent its owner from intoxication.

  Jun 10, 2018   0   517

Did You Know? Twinstrangers.com is a website where you can try to find your lookalikes from anywhere in the world by uploading photos of yourself, selecting your facial features, and sorting through matches.

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Did You Know? Viganella, Italy is cut off from direct sunlight for 83 days in the winter due to the surrounding mountains, so they set up a giant, computer-controlled mirror on top of the mountainside to reflect the sun’s rays onto the town.

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Did You Know? Only half of Americans consider Christmas a religious holiday.

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Did You Know? The 60-acre Cool Patch Pumpkins corn maze in Dixon, CA, is so big that people routinely call 911 for help getting out, even though they have a map that details every twist and turn.

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Did You Know? Fruit flies drink alcohol when they are sexually frustrated.

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Did You Know? There’s an ‘honest’ weather app called Authentic Weather that swears at you with moody updates about what’s happening outside.

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Did You Know? The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.

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Did You Know? Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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Did You Know? The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.

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Did You Know? The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English.

  Jun 10, 2018   0   954

Did You Know? You're more likely to become the President than you are to win the lottery.

  May 29, 2018   0   494

Did You Know? The ‘Double Tree of Casorzo’ near Piemonte, Italy, is unique because it’s actually two trees in one: a cherry tree growing on top of a mulberry tree.

  May 29, 2018   0   2691

Did You Know? Many of the elaborate background “sets” from the original Star Wars trilogy were actually just detailed oil paintings on panes of glass.

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Did You Know? Dutch trains now run entirely on wind energy. The wind powers 5,500 trips per day, enabling 600,000 daily train passengers to commute without any emissions. Over the course of an hour, a single windmill can power a train for 120 miles.

  May 29, 2018   0   510

Did You Know? Only three films have won the top five awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay): It Happened One Night (1934) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

  May 25, 2018   0   488

Did You Know? At birth dalmatians are always white

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Did You Know? 1 in 28 American school-aged children has a parent in state or federal prison.

  May 16, 2018   0   292

Did You Know? The Unicorn is the official animal of Scotland.

  May 9, 2018   0   298

Did You Know? Cucumbers are 96% water.

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Did You Know? If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn pale.

  Apr 11, 2018   0   430

Did You Know? Polygamy is the practice of having more than one husband or wife at the same time.

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Did You Know? 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros

  Mar 7, 2018   0   328

Did You Know? ‘Venus Observa‘ is the technical term used for the missionary sex position.

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Did You Know? Your decisions are more rational when thought in another language. This is because using a foreign language reduces decision making biases.

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Did You Know? The name ‘Jessica‘ was made up by Shakespeare for his play ‘The Merchant of Venice‘.

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Did You Know? More people speak English in China than the United States.

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Did You Know? A group of pandas is called an ‘embarrassment‘.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   395

Did You Know? In Spanish, the word ‘esposas‘ means both ‘wives‘ and ‘handcuffs‘.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   296

Did You Know? ‘Syzygy‘ is the only English word with three Ys.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   257

Did You Know? There are more English words beginning with the letter ‘s‘ than with any other letter.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   267

Did You Know? The Korean version of ‘LOL‘ is ‘KKK‘, which means ‘Hahaha‘.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   307

Did You Know? There are more people speaking French in Africa than in France.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   272

Did You Know? ‘Murder for a jar of red rum‘ spelled backwards is ‘Murder for a jar of red rum‘.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   247

Did You Know? ‘Was it Eliot‘s toilet I saw?‘ spelled backwards is ‘Was it Eliot‘s toilet I saw?‘

  Jan 23, 2018   0   243

Did You Know? The original meaning of the word ‘silly‘ means ‘blessed‘ or ‘happy‘.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   375

Did You Know? In Japan, Ronald McDonald is known as ‘Donald McDonald‘ to make pronunciation easier for the Japanese.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   281

Did You Know? A ‘palindrome‘ is a word that is spelled the same way from both ends. For example: racecar

  Jan 23, 2018   0   258

Did You Know? The word ‘bae‘ is the Danish word for ‘poop‘.

  Jan 23, 2018   0   265

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