A German man was locked in a high-security psychiatric hospital for claiming that a bank was
involved with money-laundering,and was released years later when the bank was raided for money-laundering.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVB#In_the_News

Despite strong intolerance of gays,Pakistan leads the world for "gay porn" searches.

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http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/06/15/despite-strong-anti-gay-laws-pakistan-leads-in-world-for-gay-porn-searches/

A 4 second awkward-silence pause in conversation creats feelings of rejection in the brain.

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http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/30/awkward-silences-4-seconds-is-all-it-takes-to-feel-rejected/

A 66 year old man went to hospital because of stomache pain,to discover he had been a woman (genetically) his whole life.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/man-stomach-pain-discovers-woman-article-1.1363992

Nutella was invented during WWII,when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.

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http://mentalfloss.com/article/50068/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-nutella

According to Amazon,the most highlighted Kindle books are the Bible,the Steve Jobs' biography and The Hunger Games.

Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.

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http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news/2011/02/prairie-dogs-give-a-little-tongue-to-say-hello.html

The deepest swimming pool in the world is in Brussels,Belgium.It has a depth of 33 meters (108ft).

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http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2009/deepestpoolintheworld.htm

Sure this has been put up but as gold has been mentioned

You can  put all the gold ever mined since 2000BC  into three Olympic sized swimming pools

Socrates taught Plato,Plato taught Aristotle,then Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.

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http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/athenians.html

The idea that there isn't enough food to feed everyone in the world is a myth.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/world-hunger_b_1463429.html

During the Cold War,the USSR thought the heavily trafficked building in the center
courtyard of the Pentagon was a top secret meeting room and pointed nukes at it.It
was just a hot dog stand.

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http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=1049

M&M's stands for Mars and Murrie's.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M's

Danno 20 Nov 13 13:04 
The German football team play in green as their away strip, as a mark of gratitude to Ireland who (having been neutral) were the first to agree to play against them after the Second World War.

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Sorry, Danno.  Complete myth.

^^^^Quality find pumpy

There is a small district of Vilnius,Lithuania that has declared itself an independent republic.
It has its own flag,currency,president,cabinet and an army of 11 men.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C5%BEupis

Prostitutes in Brazil are enrolling in free English classes so they can provide a better service for
tourists during the World Cup.

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http://sportige.com/brazilian-prostitutes-getting-ready-for-world-cup-01-2013/

A Nepali farmer was bitten by a cobrathen the farmer bit the cobra back.The cobra died but the farmer didn't.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19348834

In 1642,a man was executed because a deformed piglet looked like him.He was convicted of beatiality.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_George_Spencer

Early humans literally ran their prey to death.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

A man turned himself in to the police after his computer was infected with ransomware that displayed a fake FBI warning accusing him of possessing child pornography,because he actually had a hard drive full of child pornography and thought he had been caught.

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware_(malware)

One of the undisputed fathers of computer science helped develop crypto analytical devices to fight
the Nazis.His reward;a criminal conviction of homosexuality and forced chemical castration.Within 1 year
he became impotent,developed breasts due to hormonal imbalance and committed suicide.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing

Japanese manga publishers allow fans to create and openly sell their own comics based on the popular series,even
if the work is pornographic.The publishers view amateur comics as a form of marketing,not a threat to sales.

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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga?currentPage=all

Subway ticket machines in Moscow accepted 30 squats as payment in 2013

http://newcitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/moscow-subway-squats-600x370.jpg

Sandwiches "taste better" when someone else makes them because when you make your own, you anticipate its taste and become less hungry for it.

25,000,000 of your cells died while you were reading this sentence.


If you search for "askew" in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.


I have just tried it its true

Over 90% of American films made before 1929 are lost, no copies are known to exist.

In older versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl and the wolf eat grandma together.


Actor Jack Nicholson found out his sister was actually his mother when he was 37

The city of Lusail, host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final game, does not exist yet

Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees. The bees are placed in a glass chamber into which the patient exhales; the bees fly into a smaller secondary chamber if they detect cancer.

Scientists have found that honey bees - Apis mellifera - have an extraordinary sense of smell that is more acute than that of a sniffer dog and can detect airborne molecules in the parts-per-trillion range.

Bees can be trained to detect specific chemical odours, including the biomarkers associated with diseases such as tuberculosis, lung, skin and pancreatic cancer.

A Turkish man started wearing a copper wire cage on his head to quit smokinh.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuB0g53qjwc

16% Lithuanian people are HIV resistant.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_people#Genetics