Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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In Tunisia, you can book an overnight stay in Luke Skywalker’s boyhood home for only $10.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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In Japan, watermelons are grown into the shape of a square so they are easier to stack and transport.
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In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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