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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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In 1996 a physicist submitted a paper full of word salad and gibberish to a postmodernist journal and it actually passed peer review and was published. This is known as the Sokal Affair. “feminist and poststructuralist critiques have demystified the substantive content of mainstream Western scientific practice, revealing the ideology of domination concealed behind the […]
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In the 50s and 60s both American and Soviet films were banned in Yugoslavia, so instead they imported films from Mexico, who were going through their cinematic golden age. This created a Mexican craze in Yugoslavia where Yugoslav singers would dress like mariachis, sing songs in a Mexican style.
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The US provided Laos with funds and concrete to expand an airport which could serve as a base for US fighter jets during the Vietnam War. But as the funds and concrete arrived before any contract was signed, Laos decided instead to build a memorial to soldiers who died in World War II.
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Koalas refuse to eat anything but Eucalyptus, a mildly toxic plant that gives them almost no energy, which is why they sleep so much. Also, if you stripped the tree and put it on a plate, the koala would stare at it and starve because it can’t recognize it as food.
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