London's King's Cross railway station has a platform 9 3/4 in dedication to Harry Potter.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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At YouTube Headquarters, employees can either take the elevator, stairs or slide.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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More books are written, published and sold per person per year in Iceland than anywhere else on the planet. One in ten Icelanders will become a published author in their lifetime.
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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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