In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies
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The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
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Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
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Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
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A twin was born 34 minutes after her brother, but because daylight savings kicked in, was actually born 26 minutes before!
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A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
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