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10 months ago
Dark Fact: 170 Swiss troops accidentally invaded Liechtenstein in 2007 after getting lost during a training exercise.
in Liechtenstein
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Charles Darwin married his first cousin and had 10 children. 3 died as infants and 3 were infertile. He was the first to raise the question if incest may cause weaknesses in offspring after studying inbred plants in his garden.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Male spider mites prefer their sexual partners to be dead.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Between 1300 and 1650, up to 500,000 Europeans (mostly women) were executed for allegedly practicing witchcraft.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: As of 2017, every American would have to contribute US$43,503 to pay off the U.S. national debt.
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Dark Fact: Some woodpeckers like to eat the brains of baby doves.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: A NY man spent almost 5 months in prison in 2014, unaware that his bail was US$2.
in New York
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Dark Fact: The Aztecs had penalties for being drunk which ranged from head-shaving to the death penalty.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Chinese scientist Tong Dizhou cloned the first fish in the 1960s, but the Maoist government forced him to abandon his research and become a janitor during the Cultural Revolution.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Long-term stays in space reveal issues with bone and muscle loss in low gravity, immune system suppression, and radiation exposure.
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Dark Fact: The director of the FBI encouraged everyone to cover their webcams in 2016.
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Dark Fact: 50 beavers were introduced into Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, in the 1940s to help start a fur trade. There are now over 100,000, and they have devastated over 16 million hectares.
in Argentina
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Violent dreams may be an early sign of brain disorders down the line, including Parkinson's disease and dementia.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: 1 in 3 people people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: 57 million children around the world remain out of school.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Horse-eating is called Hippophagy.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: In Switzerland, some people still regularly eat dog and cat meat. It's legal in the country.
in Switzerland
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Villa Epecuén, Argentina, has a population of one. Nearly 30 years after a flood submerged the town, former occupant Pablo Novak returned.
in Argentina
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Between 1800 and 2009, tigers killed an estimated 373,000 humans.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: During WW2, the U.S. Navy partnered with the Mafia to protect the country's ports.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: The average keyboard contains 3,295 microbes per square inch.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: In 2007, the CIA released documents that revealed the agency's collaboration with the italian mafia in a failed 1960 attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro.
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10 months ago
Fun Fact: Elvis Presley was 24 years old when he started seeing 14-year-old Priscilla.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: In 1993, Karl Watkins, an electrician, was jailed for having sex with pavements in Redditch, Worcs.
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10 months ago
Dark Fact: Due to a lack of family and friends in attendance at his funeral, the pallbearers of Lee Harvey Oswald's casket were reporters.