The Soviet special forces were issued ballistic knives, capable of being fired up to 16 feet at up to 39mph, due to knife-throwing training being considered overly time-consuming.
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The lion’s roar can be heard from 5 miles away.
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Who’s Who in the CIA was a book published in East Berlin during the height of the Cold War, probably by the Stasi. Namebase says of this book “nearly impossible to find. It even has a habit of disappearing from U.S. libraries.”
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On April 30, 1961, Dr. Leonid Rogozov removed his own infected appendix at the Soviet Novolazarevskaja Research Station in Antarctica, as he was the only physician on staff. The operation lasted one hour and 45 minutes.
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Using ‘~’ before a word in Google searches includes synonyms of that word in your search.
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It takes eight hours to mow the White House lawn.
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The pain caused by kidney stone is worse than childbirth and gunshot wounds.
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In 2005 a 13 year-old baby was born after cryogenics had kept it frozen as an embryo.
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Due to the speed of its orbit and rotation, Mercury’s days are longer than its years.
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The United States Navy has 80 bottlenose dolphins that are highly trained and are currently being used to guard a facility that houses nuclear warheads.
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Johnny Cash was the first American to know of Stalin’s Death.
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There is the list of weird personal names. Some are really crazy like Born God Supreme Thompson or Dick Assman.
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Out of the top 10 countries in the world with the fastest internet, five are in Eastern Europe.
