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28 interesting facts about the world you probably didn’t learn at school

With more than 110 thousand followers on Instagram, “Einstein Fact” makes sure that our brains are fed with some fresh ...
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36 lesser-known facts about the world that should be common knowledge

Did you know that at one point in Australia Weird Al Yankovic was more popular than the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, himself ...
Yahoo

12 World Facts That Show How Small Humans Are

Have you ever had one of those moments where the sheer vastness of the world or the universe completely blows your mind? It might happen while lying on the hood of your car, gazing at the stars on a ...
NPR

The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it

When one of the world's most secretive and far-reaching organizations offers to share how it sees the world, it's worth taking a peek. That's the thought I had when I dove into the CIA World Factbook ...
AOL

20 Real-World Facts That Sound Like Glitches In The Matrix

We like to think that the universe follows a strict set of logical rules, but every now and then, we stumble upon facts that seem to suggest the “code” of our reality is a bit buggy. Whether it’s an ...
Hartford Courant

Eulogy for CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, then you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants upon which ...