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The same person who created Wonder Woman also created the lie detector.
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The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was developed in just two days in January 2020.
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Until 1878, it was not known whether a horse ever has all four feet off the ground at any part of its stride. High speed photography proved that it does.
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Helium was detected on the sun before it was detected on Earth. That's why it was named for Helios, the Greek god of the sun.
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China has its own version of the "Emperor Has No Clothes" story. The Chinese story is sometimes called "point deer make horse". In the Chinese version, a powerful man brings a deer to court, calling it a horse. People are forced to answer whether it is a deer or a horse. Later, all the people who were honest are put to death.
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Quizmaster
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Jan 21, 2021
Credit to @SirPhilippines for 586.
HornetTF666
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Jan 21, 2021
In 1873 (during the Cantonal Rebellion), the government of Cartagena, Spain, wrote a letter to President Ulysses S. Grant asking to join the United States.
YouLoveEagle
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Jun 28, 2022
USA should of just accepted
SirPhilippines
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Jan 21, 2021
3 facts lets goo.
SirPhilippines
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Jan 21, 2021
Don't mean to be nitpicky, but isn't the story called "The Emperor's New Clothes"?
gewehr6628
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May 11, 2021
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kasnevone
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Mar 11, 2024
yeah that's how I learnt it
sacheth9
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Jan 21, 2021
The red colour in the Target logo is trademarked and is illegal to use.
Basaball
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Level 52
Nov 19, 2025
So is T-Mobile’s. #ec0074
HornetTF666
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Jan 21, 2021
The first Indian restaurant in the UK was opened 50 years before the first fish and chip shop. (Hindoostane coffee house, in 1810)
MG17
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Jan 21, 2021
From the top of Mount Etna, in Catania province, converge ten Italian municipalities. Credits to HelveticaBold.

Baxtergrad
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Jan 21, 2021
Ook gurg urg that map makes me mad!
MG17
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Jan 22, 2021
😜
SirPhilippines
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Jan 21, 2021
The band "A-ha" is from Oslo, Norway
SirPhilippines
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Jan 21, 2021
Rihanna is from Barbados
mundidades
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Jan 22, 2021
Bakken, located in Klampenborg, North of Copenhagen (Denmark), opened in 1583 and is currently the oldest operating amusement park in the world. The park claims to have over 150 attractions, including a wooden roller coaster built in 1932.
SirPhilippines
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Jan 22, 2021
The most common word in the bible is "Lord"
Malbaby
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Jul 26, 2021
'The' is the most common word in the Bible. 'Lord' is the most common amongst a selected group.
TheLocalMilkMan
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Jan 23, 2021
The Austrian Military once invaded itself on accident causing 10,000 casualties
Baxtergrad
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Jan 23, 2021
It was over beer. I'm not kidding.
Chunkydonkey
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Apr 9, 2021
May I ask when and where was that incident?
Leafsnationguy
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Apr 15, 2026
I've heard of the battle of karansebes in the war against the Turks, but maybe that's not what they're referring to
1ProximaCentauri
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Jan 23, 2021
Strom Thurmond gave the longest Filibuster by a single person in history. It was on the civil rights act of 1957, and lasted 24 hrs and 18 min. He even decided he needed a bucket in front of him, in case he needed to urinate, because at the time, the senator filibustering had to keep one foot on the podium at all times.
Gorpik
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May 22, 2025
This is no longer true. Cory Booker broke this record in April 2025. Interestingly, Thurmond spoke against the Civil Rights Act, while Booker is a Black senator.
turnbacktwo
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Jan 23, 2021
Some cats have an allergy to humans
turnbacktwo
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Jan 23, 2021
US wasabi isn't really wasabi
SirPhilippines
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Jan 23, 2021
It's not, and I knew that. The reason that is is because you need to eat real wasabi within 20 minutes time, so you can't transport it. So it STAYS IN JAPAN.
WashingMachine
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Jan 24, 2021
Unless you make the wasabi in America..
SirPhilippines
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Jan 24, 2021
...but you can't. The climate is not suitable for wasabi plants.
Quizmaster
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Jan 25, 2021
Certainly you can grow wasabi somewhere in the United States. I'm pretty sure I've had real wasabi in U.S. restaurants. But it is extremely rare.
yellowbomb
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Feb 9, 2021
Wasabi is being grown in Oregon, USA.

Also, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, Thailand, New Zealand, Iceland, the Netherlands, Hungary, and the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi#Cultivation

Malbaby
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Jul 26, 2021
A wild Wasabi was shot in the Australian outback but managed to escape. It is thought to be living in a billabong in the Simpson desert.
SirPhilippines
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Jan 23, 2021
Walmart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard. Harvard has a 4.6% percent rate and a job at Walmart in Washington D.C. is 2.6% acceptance rate

Sources:1 2 3

TravelingMama
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Jul 3, 2021
Walmart is also much more useful to society.
Leafsnationguy
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Apr 15, 2026
Not very difficult to be.
turnbacktwo
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Jan 23, 2021
Black apples exist
Baxtergrad
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Jan 23, 2021
Sure, but only after that fool Thompson was transporting those apples through the paint department...
JetPunker180
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Jan 24, 2021
Technically, the shape of Ka'aba is not Cube.
SirPhilippines
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Jan 24, 2021
Its all in the "Technically"
JetPunker180
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Jan 24, 2021
Mai received mangoes from the Pakistani foreign minister, mangoes become a sign of loyalty to Mao. Rallies were organize honoring mangoes. One man was executed because he compared mango to sweet potato
JetPunker180
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Jan 24, 2021
*Mao
JetPunker180
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Jan 24, 2021
High atmospheric pressure affects the bubbles in your coffee. If the bubbles are closer to center, except rain or stormy weather
LuffySanji
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Jan 24, 2026
didn't know coffee has bubbles
Baxtergrad
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Jan 24, 2021
20% of people on the Pitcairn Islands are on the territory's legislature, the Island Council.
Baxtergrad
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Jan 24, 2021
Or, another way of saying it is.. one in five people are on the council.
cuotak
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Jan 25, 2021
The "powerful man" in #590 is Zhao Gao, who was the imperial chancellor of the second emperor of the Qin dynasty (221 BC - 207 BC). The story goes like this: Zhao was originally the tutor of the 18th son of first emperor of China, Qin Shihuang. When Qin Shihuang died while travelling outside the capital, Zhao hid the news of his death and concealed his body with seafood to hide the smell. He then sent a fake royal decree ordering the death of the crown prince, and set up the 18th son as the next emperor. When returning to the capital, many officials in the royal court distrusted Zhao, and he brought out the deer trick to get rid of his enemies.
Leafsnationguy
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Apr 15, 2026
That is nothing similar the "the emperors new clothes". In the emperors new clothes the emperor gets tricked by some thieves into going about wearing no clothes and everybody had to pretend like he was.
LuigiDood227
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Apr 6, 2022
The end of 590 sounds like something the CCP would do
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