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    Amazing
    In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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    Animal
    It has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
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    Religion
    Jews account for 20% of all Nobel Prize laureates, despite being only 0.2% of the world’s population.
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    Space
    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    TV & Film
    John Hughes shot The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off back to back to save money. He also used the same crew and sets, including the high school with the same posters on the walls.
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    Science
    A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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    Interesting
    If you're one in a million, there are about 7,234 people just like you.
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    Animal
    When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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