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Actress Veronica Lake started a popular peek-a-boo hair trend. Women wearing this hairstyle while working in factories during WW2 were getting their hair caught in machinery. The US government asked Lake to her influential hairstyle to something more modest and she complied.
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Luxembourg participated in the Korean War. They sent their entire army of 44 soldiers to assist South Korea in 1951, with 2 deaths and 17 injured in the conflict by the end.
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The first carrier of the blonde hair allele in modern day Europeans lived in Siberia 16,000 years ago. This suggests that migrations from the Eurasian steppe brought blonde hair to the European population.
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The statistic that more people are killed by falling coconuts than by shark attacks is an urban legend, that gained momentum when in 2002 the director of the International Shark Attack File, falsely claimed that falling coconuts kill 150 people each year, compared 5 shark attack deaths.
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Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, ran and won his campaign from prison. Once elected president, he released himself.
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After announcing the discontinuation of the SEGA Dreamcast in 2001, the price was reduced to as low as $49.95. Japanese businessman Isao Okawa forgave SEGA’s debt of $500 million prior to his death and returned $695 million worth of SEGA stock helping the company survive.
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Venezuela is named as such as when discovered by Amerigo Vespucci he noted the civilization lived on distinct stilts houses around the ocean which reminded him of Venice, so he named it Venezuola meaning “Little Venice”.
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