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"Hello Kitty was originally created to sell shoes. But now she’s EVERYWHERE."

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"Nobody actually knows how to spell Shakespeare’s name. In fact, his name has over 80 different spelling variations and there are actually no records of him ever spelling his name as William Shakespeare, as he is known today."

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"Double Stuf Oreos contain only 1.86 times the amount of creme as a regular one. We’ve been lied to!"

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"An experiment featuring 8 pigeons found that after training, they could differentiate between the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet. The birds were able to correctly guess the artist over 90% of the time, with a success rate higher than humans’."

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"Dogs “play-sneeze” when they’re having a good time."

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"Benjamin Franklin fought hard to make the turkey America’s national bird because he believed bald eagles had “bad moral character” and that turkeys were “much more respectable.”"

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"Rats, squirrels, and other rodents can’t vomit. Their brains lack the neurological circuits associated with vomiting."

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"On the fifth floor of the US Supreme Court building, there’s a full basketball court. Constructed in the 1940s, it was jokingly dubbed “The Highest Court in the Land.” "

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"Outback Steakhouse was founded in Florida by 4 Americans who had never visited Australia. They came up with the concept for the restaurant due to the surge in popularity of Australian culture following the release of Crocodile Dundee."

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"Cher’s “Believe” is the first song to use auto-tune, although her producers denied it for years."

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"China owns all of the pandas in the world. Even if you see one at the zoo, it’s still owned by China."

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"Yoko Ono was so fascinated by Salvador Dalí’s work that she offered him $10,000 for a single piece of hair from his mustache. He originally obliged but after thinking about it, Dalí decided that he didn’t want to because he believed that she was a witch who would use his hair in a spell. So he got his assistant to send her a dried blade of grass instead."

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"Hummingbirds are one of the few bird species that pee. Other birds exert urine in solid form but since hummingbirds consume so much water through nectar their urine is liquid."

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"Pizza didn’t become common in America until after World War II. Soldiers stationed in Italy loved pizza so much that they brought it back to America and made it mainstream."

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"Goldfish can distinguish music by different composers. Scientists played music by Bach and Stravinsky and found that the fish could identify the correct composer about 75% of the time."

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"When Lance Armstrong was found doping and stripped of his Tour de France wins, the committee decided to award the win to the next-place finisher. However, they found that so many bikers were doping that they had to declare no winner for the seven successive races."

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"The astronauts aboard the Apollo didn’t have a space toilet so instead, they had to use a plastic bag that they stuck to their bodies. After they were done, they had to add disinfectant to the bag and then knead it by hand until it was all mixed together. And, yes, it all made its way back to Earth with them."

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"Before city parks became common, people would picnic in cemeteries. This is because in the 19th-century, cemeteries started planting gardens and incorporating flowers in their headstone designs instead of skulls."

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"During the Great Depression, Cameroon sent $3.77 in relief money to the United States to show support despite the fact that they were facing its effects as well."

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"Planning a vacation creates more happiness in your brain than going on the actual trip does."

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"During NASA’s Gemini 3 missions, astronaut John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich on board. While he hid it from other crew members, someone ratted him out for being a sandwich smuggler so NASA banned sandwiches from future missions."