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1. The largest surviving relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex is the common Ostrich.
1. In Finland, the word 'kalsarikännit' means to get drunk at home, alone, in your underwear.
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1. In 2010, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was deployed to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and provided the island with 200,000 gallons a day of fresh drinking water from its desalination plants.
1. James Cameron offered Matt Damon 10% of the box office earnings from "Avatar," which would have earned the actor over $250 million.
1. To tell twins apart, look at their belly buttons. It's the one thing that's not affected by genetics.
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1. Beyonce employs a "visual director" who records her for up to 16 hours a day and has done so almost every day since 2005. She stores this footage in a temperature-controlled room she calls her "crazy archive," extensively cataloging her public and private life.
1. Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history, with the US secretly dropping an average of 8 bombs a minute for 9 years during the Vietnam war.
1. In 1996, a black teenager named Keshia Thomas, while marching to protest a KKK rally in Michigan, protected a white man, who had an "SS" tattoo and a confederate flag shirt, from the attacks of a crowd. She threw herself on him to deflect the mob's strikes, due to her belief that "nobody deserves to be hurt."
Fact Republic is where curiosity meets clarity. Discover random, history, and uncommon facts about everyday life. Uncover the unbelievable and unknown
Fact Republic is where curiosity meets clarity. Discover random, history, and uncommon facts about everyday life. Uncover the unbelievable and unknown
Fact Republic is where curiosity meets clarity. Discover random, history, and uncommon facts about everyday life. Uncover the unbelievable and unknown
Fact Republic is where curiosity meets clarity. Discover random, history, and uncommon facts about everyday life. Uncover the unbelievable and unknown
1. During World War 2 when General Patton got in trouble for slapping a shell shocked soldier, his punishment was to command an inflatable army of decoy tanks in England to divert Germany's attention from a potential attack at Normandy. This proved to be essential to the success of the D-Day invasions.
Fact Republic is where curiosity meets clarity. Discover random, history, and uncommon facts about everyday life. Uncover the unbelievable and unknown
1. North Dakota didn't technically qualify for statehood until 2012 when a constitutional error found by a 66-year-old man was corrected.
1. Africanized bee, which are also known as killer bees, are breed hybrids that accidentally escaped lab quarantine and since have spread throughout the Americas.
