Walt Disney was a high school dropout and he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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Anuptaphobia is the fear of staying single.
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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