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    Only humans shed emotional tears.
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    Beowulf Mansion
    Beowulf Mansion
    There's a rentable mansion that's located where Beowulf was based.
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    If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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    Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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    The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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    If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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