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    Iceland Has the Most Books Published per Person per Year in the World
    In Iceland, more books are published and sold per person every year than anywhere else in the world. Ten percent of Icelanders become a published author in their lifetime.
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    There are more chickens than people in the world.
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    A third of the human population sneezes when they look at the Sun. Light can signal the ocular nerve near the sinuses and triggers a sneeze.
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    It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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    Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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    When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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    You can't tickle yourself.
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    Vicks inhalers can cause you to test positive for Meth on drug tests.
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