Fact of the Day

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Cayo Blanco del Sur, a tiny island off the coast of Cuba, may still technically belong to East Germany, which doesn't even exist anymore.

Bloody Hell, I didn't know that and I've actually been there! Well, almost, we never actually set foot onshore, but anchored of it's south coast to sit out a couple of days of northerly gales in February 2015; it's now or at least was called Ernst Thälmann Island and sits between Cayo Largo and Mainland Cuba.

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Ravens suffer from paranoia.

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Arthur Guinness, founder of Guinness Brewery, had 21 children with just one wife.

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Bruce Lee could perform push ups using only his thumbs.

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More people died in Auschwitz than the British and American losses of WW2 combined.

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Norman Borlaug, an agricultural scientist, developed new strains of crops which yielded 4 times as much food . He is said to have saved the lives of over a billion people, making him one of the most influential men in human history.

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Harvey R. Ball, the strongest claimant to having invented the smiley face, was paid just $45 for the design.

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The average thickness of ice in Antarctica is about 1 mile.

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Guinness estimates that 93,000 liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone.

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The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded alcohol during the last few days of his life.