North Korea does not use the normal Gregorian calendar like most of the world. Instead it uses a different calendar system called the Juche calendar for numbering the years and year one of this calendar began on Kim Il Sung’s (The founder of North Korea) birthday.

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The Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. It was built by the ancient Romans in the 16th century AD under Emperor Hadrian.

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A Californian couple named Helen & Les Brown were both born on December 31st, 1918. They married for 75 years and both lived to the age of 94 until they both died in 2013, one day apart.

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Over the rivers of Russia, the wooden churches of Kizhi, built in 1714, use no nails, with 22 domes. Frozen winters preserved them. They’re a UNESCO marvel.

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Shima Hospital (島病院, Shima byōin) is a Japanese hospital, now clinic, in Hiroshima, Japan. It was the exact location where the atomic bombing of Hiroshima took place on August 6, 1945. Shima Hospital is considered to be ground zero.

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Within the forests of Brazil, the Kayapo tribe uses body paint from genipap fruit, a practice from 1000 AD. Patterns ward off spirits. Their culture resists Amazon development.

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Pregnancy testing can be dated back to an ancient Egyptian papyrus from 1350 BCE. Their medical professionals asked potentially pregnant women to urinate on bags of wheat and barley, claiming that germination of the grain indicated pregnancy: wheat for a boy and barley for a girl.

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Coke in two-liter plastic bottles first appeared on the market in 1977.

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There is almost no street crime in Japan.

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The FedEx logo has won over 40 design awards and was ranked as one of the eight best logos in the last 35 years. The white arrow in the logo was an intentional design choice, created by blending two different fonts together.

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South Africa's Mponeng Gold Mine is the deepest mine in the world. It reaches a depth of 2.5 miles below ground Level, and it takes over an hour to reach the bottom of the mine from the surface. Illegal miners sneak into the mine and hide there for months at a time. Deprived of sunlight, their skin turns gray, and they are called "ghosts."

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Spacesuits take 5,000 hours to make and cost around $1 million.

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Nordlingen, Germany, is buil|t inside a 15-million-year-old meteor crater.

The town has integrated parts of the meteor into its structures, including St. George's Church, which is encrusted with meteorites and microscopic diamonds.

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Strawberries are deadly for people allergic to birch pollen, doctors warn.

The proteins in the berry are similar to those in birch pollen and can cause a severe allergic reaction.

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The skin of all human beings is covered in stripes. They’re called Blaschko’s Lines, and they cover the body from head to toe. We just can’t see them.

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Eating dates in the last 4 weeks before labour helps with birth.

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Earthworms are hermaphrodites. Each carries male and female reproductive organs. When mating, two individual earthworms will exchange sperm and fertilize each other's eggs.

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A lobster’s brain is located in its throat, its nervous system in its abdomen, its teeth in its stomach and its kidneys in its head. It also hears using its legs, tastes with its feet, and tends to favor one front limb, meaning they can be right-clawed or left-clawed.

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Yahoo was originally called "Jerry's guide to the world wide web"

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Despite its entire population, only about 200 surnames are used in China.

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