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Princess Leia's 'side buns' hairstyle was bases on traditional Navajo women's hairstyles.

Princess Leia's 'side buns' hairstyle was based on traditional Navajo women's hairstyles.

The current president of Uruguay (as of this writing), José Mujica, drives around in a 1987 VW Beetle (yes, the VW Beetle was made until 2003, but only in Mexico, as another fun fact, almost a quarter-century after the last one was imported to the USA legally), donates 90% of his annual $12,000 salary to charity, and he waits his turn @ public hospitals.

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have their own data-destruction standard.

the roaring forties are strong westerly winds that occur about between the latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees. they're caused by the combination of air being displaced from the equator towards the south pole, and the earth's rotation, and there are few landmasses to serve as windbreaks. similar but stronger conditions occur in more southerly latitudes and are referred to as the furious fifties and the screaming sixties.

they were a major aid to ships sailing to australia/NZ from europe during the age of sail and it was referred to as the "clipper route." in modern usage they're favoured by yachtsmen on round-the-world voyages and competitions.

No one knows where Pancho Villa's head is.

One of the death masks turned out to be fake.

No one knows how many (many, many) children he fathered, either.

Placenta actually initially meant "a cake".

'Waterloo Teeth' were actual human teeth pulled/stolen from the bodies of French soldiers lying

on the battleground of Waterloo.

The teeth were used to make expensive dentures for the upper class.

Who knew very well where those teeth came from.

The FBI hired its first (two) female agents in 1972- one of them was a former nun.

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Marie Antoinette risked her life to protect her little son from certain execution, shielding him with her own body.

She only gave up when her daughter was brought before her and would have been murdered then and there.

Her son was imprisoned in a room with no light, no sanitation, fed by dishes passed through a slot through the door.

He eventually died of illness and neglect.

If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up every single person on Earth, the entire world population would fit inside a lemon.

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Turkish Van cats love to swim.

"It's been estimated that the internet weighs about the same as a medium-sized egg. The weight of all the electrons in motion that make up the internet at any one moment is equivalent to 50 grams, according to Vsauce, a YouTube channel."