In 1846, a 14 year old French peasant girl named Angelique Cottin was found to possess extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and even shock people near her.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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A man named Ziona Chana lives in a 100 room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram and has the world's biggest family with 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!
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In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
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