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Japan has over 21,000 businesses that are more than 100 years old, more than any other country. Among them is Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel founded in 705 AD that holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest hotel in the world.

Finland gives every expectant mother a free "baby box" containing clothes, diapers, and supplies — and the box itself doubles as the baby's first bed.

In Japan, there's a phone booth called the 'Wind Phone' where people can speak to deceased loved ones. It has received over 30,000 visitors since 2011.

In Sweden, blood donors receive a text message whenever their blood is used to save someone's life.

There’s a rare breed of chicken called Ayam Cemani that’s completely black. They have black plumage, legs, nails, beak, and even black meat, bones, and a black tongue!

In 1986, federal prisoner Ronald J. McIntosh escaped during an unsupervised prisoner transfer. Eight days later, he returned in a stolen helicopter and broke out his girlfriend, bank robber Samantha Lopez, from federal prison in a daring daylight rescue.

The penis of a barnacle may reach up to eight to nine times its body size.

Demodex are microscopic arachnids living in nearly everyone's facial pores. Scientists believed for decades that they had no anus and burst when they died, releasing accumulated waste. A 2022 genome study proved this wrong—they do have anuses and excrete normally.

French entertainer Michel Lotito ate an entire Cessna 150 airplane over a 2-year period (1978-1980), and consumed an estimated nine tons of metal during his career from 1966 to 1997.

Dunkin' Donuts in South Korea started spraying coffee aroma into public buses every time their jingle played. Coffee sales increased 29%.

The largest nuclear bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, caused damage up to approximately 1,000km away.

Oasis star Noel Gallagher once took cocaine in a toilet reserved for the Queen in Downing Street.

The Sentinelese are a people who live on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean called North Sentinel Island. For thousands of years, they have refused all contact with the outside world. Using only stones and arrows, they have successfully repelled all invaders and remain one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world.

Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.

On 2nd Nov 2017, President Trump's Twitter account was deactivated for 11 minutes by a departing Twitter employee.

In 2000, the KKK adopted a stretch of highway near St Louis, the MO government responded by renaming the road the “Rosa Parks Highway.”

Nicholas Alkemade, a pilot during World War 2, survived falling 18,000 feet after jumping from a burning Lancaster bomber.

It’s not possible to create a folder named “con” on a Windows computer.

Research shows that verbal intelligence is positively correlated with worry and rumination. Brain scans reveal that both high intelligence and excessive worrying share similar patterns of neural activity in the brain's white matter.

In 2005, paleontologist Mary Schweitzer dissolved a T. rex bone in acid and discovered preserved soft tissue, including blood vessels and collagen proteins—a finding that revolutionized our understanding of fossil preservation.

In 2008, a 13-year-old boy in Florida was arrested for excessive farting in school.

In 2006, the CEO of Whole Foods reduced his salary to $1 a year, donated his entire portfolio to charity, and set up a $100,000 fund for staff facing personal problems.

After being dumped for being poor by his ex-girlfriend seven years prior, a Chinese man spent $40,000 booking four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of Transformers 4 - just to prove her wrong.

In 2008, Russian man Dmitry Agarkov received a credit card offer from Tinkoff Credit Systems. He didn't like the terms, so he scanned the contract, rewrote it to include 0% interest, no fees, no credit limit, and penalties of up to 6 million rubles if the bank violated the terms, then signed and returned it. The bank approved the modified contract without reading it. When the bank later sued him for unpaid fees, a judge ruled the altered contract was valid and Agarkov only owed the principal. The two parties eventually settled out of court.