In a room of 23, there is a more than 50% chance that two persons have the same birthday. It's a phenomenon known as the "Birthday Paradox".

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The First woman to run for President of the United States was Victoria Woodhull in 1872. 50 years before women could vote.

She had Frederick Douglass as her running mate, and spent election day in jail due to being arrested for obscenity.

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A 34-year-old man named Rogelio Andaverde was abducted by two armed and masked men from his home in Edinburg, Texas.

Terrified, his wife called the cops, but Andaverde remained missing. Two days later, he showed up at his house unharmed.

Investigators later found out that Andaverde staged his own kidnapping because he wanted to go out with his friends and party.

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Bae is a Danish word for poop.

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Caps on the heads of students, so that they do not write off each other in USA 1950s.

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Beheading was considered one of the cruelest types of execution in Chinese tradition, because the Chinese believed that a person's body was a gift from his parents, and therefore returning a dismembered body to oblivion was highly disrespectful to the ancestors.

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It’s a wedding custom for Turkish brides to spike the groom’s coffee with salt before the wedding, if he drinks it without complaint he’s a keeper.

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Rats are being trained to be sent into earthquake debris wearing tiny backpacks, so that rescue teams can talk to survivors.

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Psychopaths are immune to contagious yawning.

Catching someone's yawn is linked to empathy, and psychopaths are often immune.

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New Zealand has a law that prohibits anyone born on or after January 1, 2009 from purchasing tobacco, which means that one day only one person in New Zealand will be legally permitted to purchase cigarettes.

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Ocular vicarious menstruation is a rare disorder where, a woman bleeds through her eyes during menstrual periods.

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This is Barreleye Fish, and it is the first fish to have transparent head.

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August has the most birthdays while February has the least, and most of the serial killers are born in November.

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The skin of all human beings is covered in stripes from head to toe. They are called Blaschiko's Lines. They are invisible to human eye & are only visible under Ultra violent light.

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Australian scientists have created a device that allows blind people to see.

The developed device is called Phoenix 99. It records images from an external camera and transmits them to the retina using a special bionic implant.

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You meet about 16 killers in your lifetime, but you don't know it.

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