In Japan, watermelons are grown into the shape of a square so they are easier to stack and transport.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
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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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As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!
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In Iceland, 100% of domestically produced electricity comes from renewable energy.
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