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Electricity was first installed in the White House in 1891. It was such a new concept that President Benjamin Harrison and his wife both refused to touch light switches due to their fear of electrocution- so the White House staff had to follow them around and turn the lights off and on for them.

Many years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson was quite the opposite. He would often wander the House turning off the lights in empty rooms where they had been left on. This earned him the nickname ‘Light Bulb Johnson.’

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It’s been estimated that there are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on earth, but there are more atoms in one grain of sand than there are stars in the Universe.

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there is more lewd SU fanart saved on my computer than there is atoms in the universe.

The red planet (Mars) has blue sunsets. Just as colors are made more dramatic during Earth sunsets, Martian sunsets make the blue around the sun look more prominent, because all the fine dust in the atmosphere is the perfect size for scattering blue light across the sky more efficiently than any other color.

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There is a huge black hole and a star cluster in the rough centre of the Andromeda Galaxy.

In Tonopah, Nevada, there’s a Clown Motel that shares a lot with an abandoned cemetery, where most of the 300 buried either died in a mine fire or the 1902 ‘Tonopah Plague.’

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Antonio López de Santa Anna chewed a natural gum called chicle. Thomas Adams first tried to formulate the gum into a rubber suitable for tires. When that didn't work he made the chicle into a chewing gum called Chiclets, which is still produced today.

The three most notorious rulers of modern Europe were each either foreign to, or from fringe minority groups in, the nation they ruled.

Napoleon wasn't a Frenchman, but a Corsican (the island only became part of France in Napoleon's own lifetime).

Hitler wasn't a German, but an Austrian.

Stalin wasn't an ethnic Russian, but an Ossetian from Georgia (middle eastern type people in extreme southern Russia). In fact when Stalin gave the equivalent of his inauguration speech in Red Square members of the Central Politburo couldn't figure out WTF he was talking about because Stalin's command of the Russian language was so bad.

The name of the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent (or Toshkent) means "stone city."

Uzbekistan's recently deceased dictator, Islam Karimov, had an Uzbek father and a Tajik mother.

It was forbidden for recording artists in Uzbekistan to show up in public without the above mentioned Karimov's permission and, if they said anything critical of him in their songs, they were in big trouble.

It is now believed that Stalin's mindset resembled that of an Islamic ruler more than that of a European Marxist, which stands to reason now in light of where he originally came from.

Napping for just 6 minutes can improve your memory.

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