In Japan, watermelons are grown into the shape of a square so they are easier to stack and transport.
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In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around 20 minutes to help improve their learning.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word book titled 'Gadsby' which did not use the letter "e".
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Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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Students at the John Hopkins University collaboratively decided to opt out of their final since the professor set his curve based on the highest score grading it as 100%. They chose to receive a score of zero, making it the highest grade and thereby getting 100%.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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