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1 of 15The Internet is full of totally useless information. Some of that useless information is incredibly fascinating. We're not going to pretend that all of the facts in this gallery are going to make you a better person, but there are plenty of cool anecdotes in here that will help you say something more interesting the next time you are at the bar with your buddies. Keep clicking for The More You Know...Internet Edition.
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2 of 15If you find a lost driver's license, you can drop drop it in any mailbox as is. The Postal Service will take it back to the driver.
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3 of 15It would take 76 8-hour workdays to read all the terms and conditions you agree to in a year.
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4 of 15Guinness stout actually has fewer calories than skim milk, orange juice, and a lot of other beers.
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5 of 15More lasting relationships have come out of The Biggets Loser than The Bachelor or Bachelorette.
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6 of 15In 1372 architect Yi Kaizhan was hired to build a fort along the Great Wall. He ordered the exact number of bricks he needed. When his judgement was questioned, he added one more. The extra brick was never used.
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7 of 15When Michael Foot was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee, The Times' headline read: Foot Heads Arms Body.
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8 of 15OpenCola is an open source soda, the instructions for which are freely available. Anybody can make, modify, or improve it as long as they make their recipe freely available too.
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9 of 15Japanese honeybees kill hornets by surrounding them in a ball and then shaking so fast they cook the hornet.
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10 of 15As a struggling young writer, Harper Lee once got a year's wages as a gift from a friend with a note, "You have a year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas." She wrote To Kill A Mockingbird.
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11 of 1525 hospitals have special messages strategically placed near the ceiling that can only be read from above. They're part of an ongoing study of people's claims regarding out of body experiences.
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12 of 15In 2008, the Dutch voted "Swaffelen" as the word of the year. It means to repeatedly smack one's penis against something.
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13 of 15Between the time it was discovered and the time it was unclassified as a planet, Pluto did not make one full revolution around the sun.
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14 of 15After ancient Persians debated ideas, they liked to get drunk and debate them again. Just to make sure they were right.
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15 of 15Next: Amazing True FactsJapanese trains are so punctual that a delay of over 5 minutes usually gets an apology and a delay certificate for passengers heading to work. Delays over an hour might even make the news.