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Countries

The official name of "Mexico" is the "United Mexican States."

Special Girls

 A German girl has worn corsets everyday for the last 3 years to compete for the smallest waist in the world. Her waist is 21 inches

 A Japanese model underwent 30 cosmetic surgeries to look like a French doll.

 A Japanese. She has already spent more than $100,000 to get the look of her dream and plans to undergo more surgeries to achieve that.

Media

 X-men has often compaired to the African-American Civil Rights movement, with Xavier as MLK and Magneto as Malcolm X.

 BBC staff openly smoked marijuana at the cororation's headquaters during 1960's and 70's and play school presenters even went on-air stoned.

Mathew lewis wore a fat suit, fake teeth etc... through most of the Harry Potter films to make Neville Longbottom appear more unattarctive.

Did you know about media?

 X-Men has often been compared to the African-American Civil Rights movement, with Xavier as MLK and Magneto as Malcolm X.

 BBC staff openly smoked marijuana at the corporation's headquarters during the 1960's & 70's and play school presenters even went on-air stoned.

Mathew Lewis wore a fat suit, fake teeth etc... through most of the Harry Potter films to make Neville Longbottom apear more unattractive.

Did you know about construction?

Every house in Bermuda produces its own water supply by using rain-catching roofs and a filtration system.

Food

 German Chocolate Cake is named after its creator, Sam German and in fact has nothing to do with Germany.

Chocolate Milk was invented in Ireland.

Writers

 Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay titled "Fart Proudly", an entire essay about flatulence.

Tolkien did not want the third LOTR publication to be called 'Return of the King', as he felt it revealed too much of the story. This title was chosen by the publisher.

A Japanese Consul in WWII saved 6,000 Jews from Hitler by writing them all Visas to Japan even after the government told him not to.

Information Technology

Sweden has a nuclear bunker system under stokholm that has some of the biggest servers hosted at. E.g wiki leaks and The Pirate Bay.

Micro USB cables are designed to absorb the mechanical wear of the connection, so that after thousands of connections and disconnections only the cable needs to be replaced instead of wearing out the port on the device.

Astronomy

Internation Space station usually sees the sun "rise" once every 90 minutes.

The Sun has completed 18-20 orbits of the Milky Way galaxy since its birth but it has only completed 1/1250th of its orbit since the dawn of humans.

Medical Science

It is beneficial to lick your wounds. A variety of compounds in human saliva actually do speed up healing.

 Every unborn baby grows a moustache in the womb, which then spreads to cover the entire body. The baby then eats this fine hair, called lanugo, and excretes it after birth with their first bowel movement, which is a substance called meconium.

 Highly stressed people are more prone to chronic insomnia.

 Magnum condoms are designed for most men to fit into so that most men get an ego boost.

 In 2012, scientists found 1,458 new species of bacteria living in the belly button, everyone's belly button ecology is unique like a fingureprint, and one volunteer's belly button harbored bacteria that had previously been found only in soil from Japan, where he had never been.

 There is an ancient "second brain" in our stomachs that is neurologically active and responsible for feelings like "butterflies in the stomach."

 Because vinyl was so scarce and expensive in the USSR, bootleggers figured out a way to print records on old discarded X-ray films.

Prescription drugs kill more people than heroin and cocaine combined.

Did you know? Finance

 Ross Perot is "the biggest individual loser ever on the New York Stock Exchange": in April 1970, he lost $450 million in a single day.

When Ernest Seton turned 21, his father charged him for all of the expenses associated with his childhood, including the fee for his delivery at birth. He paid the bill, but changed his name and never spoke to his father again.

Canadian lottery winner Sharon Tirabassi blew through her $10 million winnings in less than 10 years and now lives paycheck to paycheck.

A Texas Hospital billed a woman $4800 after she was in an accident. Once the hospital found out she received an insurance settlement they sent her a new bill for $20,000+ and filed a lien against her property to get it.

Do you know? General Knowledge

 Bill Murray wanders around New York, ramdomly crashing parties and giving fatherly advice to people.

 Valentine Tapely promised to never shave again if Abraham Lincoln was elected again president. He died in 1910 with a 12 foot long beard.

 Chocolate Diamonds are nothing more than unwanted diamonds just marketed well.

 The shortest correspondence in history is between Victor Hugo and his publisher. Hugo was on vacation when les Minserables was published. He telegraphed the single-character message "?" to his publisher, who replied with a single "!".

 When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that "women's bodies were not designed to got at 50 miles an hour." And that "uteruses would fly out of their bodies as they were accelerated to that speed."

Mini golf was invented in 1867 because women couldn't play 'real golf' because Victorian manners meant women couldn't raise clubs over their shoulders on backswings.

An Australian guy Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes. He somehow survived. To celebrate his survival, he bought a scratch card & won a $27000 car. The media/news asked him to re-enact the scratch card monent so he bought another card & won another $250,000 jackpot.

A woman painted the man of her dreams two months before meeting him in real life

Chloe Mayo, an amateur artist from Surrey, England, painted a depiction of her dream man two months before meeting him on an online dating site. She was so shocked by the resemblance that she hid the painting for fear he would think she was a stalker. They are now married for three years.

Chloe Mayo, an amateur artist from Surrey, England

Chloe Mayo, an amateur artist from Surrey, England

In 1786 when Louis XVI had bodies removed from France's Saints Innocents Cemetery into the Catacombs, many of the bodies had decomposed into fat. The fat was then collected and turned into candles and soap.

 When spinning a standard U.S. penny the chances of landing on tails is 80%, contrary to the popular belief that there is a 50/50 chances either way.

 Soy sauce contains 10 times the antioxidants of red wine. Also, ingesting a quart of soy sauce in one go can send you into a coma.

In 1979, 4.000 people in Australia rioted because a pub closed.

A size 8 at "Banana Republic" is a size 2 at "The Gap".