Mathematical proof that 1+1=2 takes 162 pages to explain in the three volume work “Principia Mathematica”.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.
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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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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
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The famous aphrodisiac 'Spanish Fly' is made from dried beetle remains!
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In Korea, if you do not receive any gift on Valentine's day then all the singles go to Korean restaurants and eat black noodles to celebrate (or mourn) their single status.
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