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Fact Republic is where curiosity meets clarity. Discover random, history, and uncommon facts about everyday life. Uncover the unbelievable and unknown
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1. King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the United States should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.
01. In France, they have short story vending machines in public locations. You can select 1, 3, or 5 minutes, and the machine prints a story on a strip of paper for free. #france #actor #popular #famous #celebrity
1. Sex traffickers have been known to implant their victims with RFID chips similar to the RFID chips implanted in pets that help identify pets if they are lost.
01. The London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito, which is more aggressive towards humans than its surface-dwelling relative. #london #underground #subspecies #animal #science #knowledge #education #bizarre #strange
01. Charles VIII of France fell in a coma after he hit his head on the lintel of a door while leaving a game of Tennis and died hours later.
1. In 1840, the average age of onset of menstruation for girls was 17. By 2000, this age had dropped to 12 years old.
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1. Keith Richards went to court expecting a multi-year jail sentence but ordered to give a benefit concert for the blind instead.
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1. About 1 in 50 people can't visualize images in their head. It's called Aphantasia, and if you have it you can't even visualize things such as your own house or your best friend’s face.
01. “Burrito” is Spanish for “little donkey”. It is named so because it can hold many things, like a donkey can. #food #health #fitness #didyouknow #people #interesting #fascinating #women #female #humans
1. About 1 in 50 people can't visualize images in their head. It's called Aphantasia, and if you have it you can't even visualize things such as your own house or your best friend’s face.
01. In 2015, scientists detected, for the first time, the merger of 2 black holes in a galaxy 17 billion lightyears away by measuring the gravitational waves emitted by the collision. As they spun around each other violently, they released more energy in the form of gravitational waves than the combined light from all the stars in the Milky Way in 4400 years.
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