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An Italian atheist group wanted to advertise on buses “The bad news is that God does not exist. The good news is you don’t need it”. When they were refused, they changed it to “The good news is there are millions of atheists in Italy. The excellent news is they believe in freedom of speech”.
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A psychic sued her hospital for neutralising her psychic powers with a CAT scan. A jury agreed and she won $988,000.
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-40° is the only temperature that is the same in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
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The four kings in a deck of cards represent real rulers. The King of Diamonds shows Julius Caesar, the King of Clubs displays Alexander the Great, the King of Spades depicts David of Israel, and finally the King of Hearts shows Charles of France.
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On November 7 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term as President. The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was later passed in 1951, limiting a president’s tenure in office to two terms of four years each. As a result, Roosevelt remains as the only President to have served for more than two […]
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The currency US-Dollar is indirectly named after the Czech town Jáchymov. The town’s German name is Joachimsthal and the coins produced here were called “Thaler”. The Dutch called those coins “Daler”, which then later turned into “Dollar”.
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The UK sits under 5 different air masses, creating unpredictable weather patterns and mimicking both tropical and polar climates. Although on the same latitude as Canada the UK often gets rain instead of snow throughout the year and humidity compared to that of a rainforest in summer.
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During the heyday of The Sopranos FBI wiretaps of the real mafia revealed that the show was so realistic the real mobsters thought there was a connected guy feeding story lines for the show.
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In 2003, Beyoncé came under fire from the Grant Monument Association for dancing in a “patently inappropriate” way on the steps of the tomb of President Ulysses S. Grant. President Grant’s great-grandson defended her saying, “If the old guy were alive, he might have enjoyed it.”
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By tradition astronomers name lunar lava planes after states of mind, such as “Sea of Tranquility”. However when Soviets discovered a new mare, they named it Moscoviense, after Moscow. This caused strife among astronomers, until it was agreed that Moscow is, in fact, a state of mind.
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