Fact of the Day

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The world's first traffic signal was short lived. Installed in London in 1868, it exploded less than a month later, injuring its policeman operator.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/cont..._feature.shtml

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Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford have never won Oscars as actors.


https://www.imdb.com/list/ls057453867/

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Alfred Hitchcock filmed a documentary about the Holocaust in 1945. It was hidden until 1984.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...tary-screening

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Narcissistic and psychopathic people are not as good at manipulating others online as they are in person, research shows.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0317094737.htm

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Bank robberies in Italy accounted for almost half of such thefts in the European Union in 2009.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...bank-robberies

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The U.S. may have adopted the metric system if pirates hadn't kidnapped the French scientist sent to help Thomas Jefferson persuade Congress to adopt the system.

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-me...metric-edition

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One gram of your DNA could store all of Facebook and Google's data.


https://www.businessinsider.com/a-pa...5-11?r=US&IR=T

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Famous left-handed people include Napoleon, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Einstein, Newton, Bill Gates, Oprah, Obama and Jimi Hendrix.


http://time.com/3107557/top-10-lefties/

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Research on naps, meditation and nature walks reveals that mental breaks increase productivity, replenish attention, solidify memories and encourage creativity.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ntal-downtime/

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A 23% rise in the cost of living in NYC in just five years: from 2009 to 2014.

http://gothamist.com/2015/03/04/no_****.php