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    Anatidaephobia is the weird fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.


    https://www.usnews.com/opinion/artic...er-democracies

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    There's a colony in Brazil founded by 2,000 to 4,000 Confederate refugees who left the U.S. after losing the Civil War.

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    Elon Musk was ousted as CEO of PayPal because he insisted on switching from Unix-based infrastructure to Windows.

    http://fortune.com/2007/11/13/paypal-mafia/

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    Manhattan comes from a word in the Lenape language that means "Island of many hills".

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    During WW2, the U.S. Navy partnered with the Mafia to protect the country's ports.


    http://time.com/4436032/suicide-squa...-war-ii-mafia/

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    The author of Jaws dedicated the last decade of his life to the preservation of sharks to make up for the mass hysteria he helped create.

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    Cats have 32 muscles that control the outer ear while humans have only 6.

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    The U.S. gave Israel US$3.1 billion on foreign aid in 2014. That's almost US$10 per American citizen.

    https://mondoweiss.net/2015/11/spends-billion-foreign/

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    Genghis Khan was originally named Temujin which means "blacksmith."


    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ksmith&f=false

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    Michael Phelps considered suicide after the 2012 Summer Olympics. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation to help other people with mental illness.

    https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/mi...XFHUnTqrATSmK/

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