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North Korea's space agency is called "NADA", which in Spanish means "nothing."

I learned that when playing an Amin chord, I don't have to play all the strings when playing claw hammer banjo.

Otters have pocket-like folds of skin under their armpits.

King Charles VI of France had a mental illness now known as glass delusion. Apparently he believed he was really made of glass or was as fragile as glass. He wouldn't let people touch him and wore special clothes so he wouldn't "shatter".

Leif Erikson is regarded as the first European to land in North America, nearly 500 years before Columbus.

The world economy falls short of $227 billion every year from lost productivity among adults who need glasses.

Benzaiten was the Japanese Goddess of art, music, and dancing, a War Goddess, and also the protector of Japanese culture.

She was also the only female deity of the Schichi Fukujin (The Seven Lucky Gods of Japanese Folklore).

Iceland is the only NATO member with no standing army. Its lightly armed coast guard is in charge of defense.

Kevin Costner refused to star in the movie Platoon because he believed it was insulting to American soldiers, since his own brother was a Vietnam veteran.

During the Veitnam War American soldiers would throw Ace of Spades death cards on the bodies of the Veitnamese soldiers they killed as a form of psychological warfare to the Veitnamese.

Today at a local village with a tidal river (Near the sea) I heard a lady say that they sometimes saw the wake of some large creature, and a few days ago at around 0600am the lady saw something gulp an adult duck straight down and then dissapear back into the water. This is in a little village (Actually classed as a small town due to historical importance due to its castle etc) in Wales, UK.

Brazil's capital, Brasilia, took just 41 months to build, from 1956 to 1960.

I learned some interesting facts about the benefits of black caviar.
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