. China tried to build a city that was a replica of Paris, right down to the replica Eiffel Tower, but it’s now a ghost town. –

 During World War II, a German U-boat sank due to a toilet malfunction.

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                                                    There isn’t a single McDonalds chain in Iceland

There are approximately 10 quintillion (that’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000) insects on our planet or roughly 200 million insects for each human

That’s a great one Rocky

 There is a village in Maryland called Accident and that people from Accident are called Accidentals. –

 When Jai Singh, Maharaja of a princely state of India, visited the Rolls-Royce showroom in London, he was affronted when the salesman implied that he couldn’t afford to purchase the car. He purchased ten, shipped them to India, and ordered to use them for collecting and transporting garbage.

 The Greek name for the Mosquito is Anopheles, translating to “good-for-nothing.”

                         Female cheetahs live alone and male cheetahs live in small permanent groups called coalitions. 

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    Death row inmates in Japan are held in solitary confinement and “told [when] they are to be hanged just hours before they are taken to the gallows.”Their families are notified only after their demise. 

There is a Japanese sweet snack called “English toast”, which is neither English nor toast. It consists of two slices of white bread, covered with a layer of margarine, sprinkled with sugar and put together. 

 In Rwanda, plastic bags are illegal and carry with them a 100-$150 fine. In fact, at airport customs all plastic bags are confiscated which has resulted in Rwanda is one of the most litter-free countries in Africa

          Margaret Sanger was jailed for 30 days for establishing the first birth control clinic in the United States. Police confiscated everything 9 days after the clinic’s conception, including condoms. 

Lawyers helped a man who slaughtered his wife’s friend and attempted to murder his wife avoid the death penalty by claiming he had the “warrior gene” which is a gene that a study showed to be linked to aggression. –

                 . There is a fire in a Kyoto temple that has been perpetually burning for over 1200 years. 

     The time machine in ‘Back to the Future’ was originally a refrigerator, but was changed since they were concerned kids would start to lock themselves inside after seeing the movie.

  The last man to cross over Niagara Falls on a tightrope was required to submit his passport to border agents upon arrival.