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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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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Craniopagus conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana can see through each other’s eyes.
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There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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