British secret intelligence service managed to hack into an Al-Qaeda website and replace certain bomb instructions with a cupcake recipe.

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The Hague city spent pent €150,000 on a bridge to allow squirrels to cross a busy main road.

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English astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, but he originally named it George.

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Match.com founder lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com

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President Calvin Coolidge used to push the emergency buzzer and hide under the table from the Secret Service.

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The CIA attempted to train cats to gather intel in the 1960s.

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Miss Piggy and Yoda were both voiced by the same person.

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The blob of toothpaste that you put on your toothbrush is called 'nurdle'.

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On Friday, April 18, 1930 people from Britain tuned into BBC only to hear: “Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news.”

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You can find a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. The name of the basketball court is - The Highest Court in the Land.

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John Steinbeck's dog, Toby, ate the first draft of "Of Mice and Men"

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Computer programmer Maneesh Sethi hired a woman to slap him every time he tries to check Facebook.

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Unicorn is Scotland’s national animal.

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Dolly Parton entered a celebrity look-alike contest and lost.

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High-heeled shoes were originally designed in the 10th Century, specifically for men.

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Alexander Fleming at first called penicillin “mould juice”.

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A person tried to sue God, but was unable to proceed due to an unlisted home address.

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It could take you 76 work days to read all the privacy policies you encounter on the internet over a period of 1 year.

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Lobsters can communicate by urinating at one another.

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Slow music that was played at a large dairy farm increased the cows’ milk production by 3 percent.

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Cartoon character Winnie the Pooh images are being blocked on social media sites in China.

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the official term for the "fear of long words."

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There's a small village named 'Hell' right next to Trondheim Airport Værnes in Norway.

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Game of Thrones costume designer revealed that Nights Watch cloaks were made from IKEA rugs.

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German chocolate cake does not originate in Germany. It was named after Sam German, who in 1852 invented a type of baking chocolate for Baker's.

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The small town of Dorset, Minnesota elects a major by picking a name out of a hat, once it elected a 3-year-old.

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CDC has a real website dedicated to emergency preparedness for a zombie apocalypse.

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Invisible artwork called "Fresh Air" sold for 10,000$.

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In 2001 there were 300 banana-related accidents in Great Britain.

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You can acquire a unicorn hunting license from Lake Superior State University in Michigan.

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The Twilight movie series has 26 minutes of silent staring.

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Japanese police confront violence by wrapping people in futons.

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A Jiffy is a unit of real-time. A jiffy is how long light takes to travel a distance of one femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a millimetre.

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Chile minted 1.5 million 50-peso coins with a spelling error, they were issued in 2008 with Chile spelled “Chiie”. The error was only noticed a year later.

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Diet soda cans float in the water, but regular soda cans sink due to the difference in density.

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Eggs frightened Alfred Hitchcock.

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To avoid baggage fees on a flight man wore 70 pieces of clothing.

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Art used to be rewarded with medals at the Olympics.

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It officially takes 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

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Israeli and Australian researchers conducted a study that determined - Viagra makes flowers stand up straight.

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There are more barrels of bourbon than there are people in Kentucky.

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There's a musical road in Lancaster, California that plays the song "William Tell Overture" if the cars drive over 55 mph.

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In the state of Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday.

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Jennifer Lawrence has "H2O" tattooed on her hand to remind her to drink water.

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Pistachios are technically considered a fruit.

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Horses only breathe through the nose.

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Researchers who study bovine behaviour have discovered that cows have different accents.

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Cookie Monster has a real first name - Sid.

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Barry Manilow hit song "I Write the Songs" wasn't written by the singer.

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You're more likely to get killed by a vending machine than a shark.

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In 2014 L.A. Times published a study that shows that 1 in every 9 Americans think that HTML is actually a sexually transmitted disease.

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An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain!

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Harvard has a higher acceptance rate than Walmart.

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Eating too many carrots can cause a yellowish discoloration of the skin and turn you orange!

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In the 1830s Ketchup was sold and used as medicine.

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Matt Groening intended for Homer Simpson to be Krusty the Clown, but the idea was dropped.

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Australia exported camels to Saudi Arabia.

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There's a Starbucks cup in almost every scene of Fight Club.

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Engineer Richard James accidentally invented the Slinky when a spring designed to stabilize the device of a ship fell off a shelf.

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Nearly every movie & tv show has to end with a disclaimer saying it's fiction. The disclaimer issue is rooted in a lawsuit against MGM for the 1932 film, Rasputin and the Empress.

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Vladimir Nabokov came up with the concept of emoticons in 1969.

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Ninety Mile Beach in New Zealand is 55 miles long.

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Psychotria Elata is a flower in the rainforests of Central and South America that resembles lips covered in lipstick.

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A man from New Zealand lost a bet and had to change his name to "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova." It took 5 years for the government to approve the change.

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Loofahs are made from vegetables.

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A football fan once dedicated his obituary to disrespect an NFL team.

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Monowi, Nebraska, used to be the only town in the United States with an official population of one person.

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A farmer in Tennessee grew a 910-pound pumpkin and used it as a boat.

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Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal hit over 11000 baskets in his career. Exactly 1 of them was a 3-pointer.

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'The Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort and Tommy Chong shared a cell while in prison.

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Abraham Lincoln was an accomplished wrestler.

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A worker sued his former company for A$1.8m because the worker claimed his ex-boss repeatedly broke wind at him.

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Camels have straight spines, despite their humps.

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The house from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is now a family restaurant called Grand Central Café.

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Anatidaephobia is the fear that a duck may be watching you.

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According to 2014 research done by LifeWay, 7 percent of Christian Americans pray for a good parking spot.

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Ironically Walt Disney had a fear of mice.

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Jennifer Lopez's dress at the 2000 Grammys inspired the creation of Google Images.

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While in graduate school Neil DeGrasse Tyson thought about becoming a stripper to earn extra money.

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In 1893 there was a proposal for a U.S. constitutional amendment, suggesting changing the name of the United States to 'The United States of Earth.'

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