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+ "fact": "A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds."
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+ "fact": "A Flemish artist is responsible for the world’s smallest paintings in history. It is a picture of a miller and his mill, and it was painted onto a grain of corn."
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+ "fact": "A Japanese explorer named Maomi Uemura was the first man to reach the North Pole alone, on April 29, 1978, after his eight-week journey."
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+ {
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "According to the Guiness Book, the fastest restaurant in the world serves the client's food within 13 seconds after the order is made. The name of the restaurant is Karne Garibaldi and is located in Guadalajara, Mexico."
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "Did you know that there is a world record for seeing how many times you can attempt a world record?!"
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+ {
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+ "fact": "Did you know that there is a world record for seeing how many times you can attempt a world record?!!"
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+ {
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "Hans Langseth had the longest beard at a record length of 17 1/2 feet long! When he died, his beard was given to the Smithsonian Institute."
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+ {
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "Hold on to your hat! The fastest wind speed ever recorded was 231 miles per hour on Mount Washington, New Hampshire on April 12, 1934."
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+ {
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "Portugal is the world's largest producer of cork. The country has regulations protecting cork trees dating back to 1320. During the 1920’s and 30’s, it became illegal to cut down the trees other than for essential thinning and removal of old non-producing trees."
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "Roy Sullivan, A U.S. park ranger, was struck by lightning seven times during his life and lived to tell about each of those strikes!"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "Sir Edmund was the first to climb Mt. Everest and return back."
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "The biggest bell is the \"Tsar Kolokol\" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To \"save\" it, caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed, as the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever."
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+ "fact": "The biggest frog is the appropriately named Goliath frog (Conraua goliath) of Cameroon. They reach nearly 30cm (a foot) and weigh as much as 3.3 kilograms."
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+ "fact": "The biggest hog ever recorded was a creature named Big Boy who weighed in at 1, 904 pounds."
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+ "fact": "The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan."
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "The largest baby to be born so far weighed in at 15 pounds, 5 ounces!"
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+ "fact": "The largest ball of twine in the world resides in Cawker City, Kansas, USA. It is over 12 feet in diameter, weighs 8+ tons, and never stops growing. More"
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "The largest book in the Library of Congress is John James Audubon's Birds of America, containing life size illustrations of birds. The book is 39.37 inches high."
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+ "fact": "The largest canyon system in the Solar System is Valles Marineris on Mars. It is more than 3,000 miles (4,827 km) long, reaches 3 miles (5 km) in depth, 200 miles (322 km) in width, and would stretch from California to New York."
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+ "fact": "The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan."
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "The largest city in the United States with a one-syllable name is Flint, Michigan."
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+ "fact": "The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people."
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+ "fact": "The largest ketchup bottle is a 170 feet (52 m) tall water tower."
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+ "fact": "The largest living thing on earth is a tree named \"The General Sherman Tree\" in Sequoia National Park. It is 275 feet (84 m) tall and 37 feet (11 m) wide at the widest part of the base."
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+ "fact": "The largest mountain in the Solar System is Olympus Mons on Mars. At 372 miles (600 km) across and a height of over 16 miles (26 km), it is nearly 3 times taller than Mt. Everest."
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+ "fact": "The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets."
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+ "fact": "The largest object that was ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle."
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+ "fact": "The largest painting on earth is a 116,000-square-foot (35,356 m) whale mural, 11 stories tall, and 1,028 feet (313 m) in circumference encircling the outside of the Long Beach Convention Center painted by Robert Wyland."
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+ "fact": "The largest pyramid in the world is not Egypt but in Cholulu de Rivadahia, Mexico. It is 177 feet tall and covers 25 acres. It was built sometime between 6 and 12 A.D."
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+ "fact": "The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick."
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+ "fact": "The largest school in the world is a k-12 school in the Philippines, with an enrollment of about 25,000."
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+ "fact": "The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet (91 m) long by 23 feet (7 m) high."
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+ "fact": "The largest stick of incense ever created was nearly 15 feet long and 6 inches in diameter."
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+ "fact": "The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis."
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+ "fact": "The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's."
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+ "fact": "The largest tumor ever removed intact weighed 303 lbs."
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+ "fact": "The largest web-footed bird is the albatross."
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+ "fact": "The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington."
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+ "fact": "The last Playboy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985. Venice Kong was the model."
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+ "fact": "The longest British reign was that of Queen Victoria who was on the throne 63 years and 7 months from 1837 to 1901."
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+ "fact": "The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long."
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+ "fact": "The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California."
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+ "fact": "The longest banana split was 288,288 inches (732,251 cm) long."
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+ "fact": "The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years!"
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+ "fact": "The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119. The shortest verse in the Bible is \"Jesus wept.\""
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+ "fact": "The longest conga to this date included 119,986 people."
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+ "fact": "The longest ever interval between an original film and its sequel is 46 years - between The Wizard of Oz, and Return to Oz."
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+ "fact": "The longest fence in the world is in Australia and it runs for over 3,436 miles (5,530 km)."
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+ "fact": "The longest indoor corridor in the world is the Grande Galerie in the Louvre, built in 1607 by Henry IV of France. On rainy days the King would clear the entire passageway, move trees, rocks, and grass turf inside, and stage a fox hunt with his entire court down the middle of the corridor."
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+ "fact": "The longest movie made lasts 85 hours and is fittingly titled “The Cure for Insomnia.”"
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+ "fact": "The longest official city name in the world, made up of 164 letters, is \"Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit\" a.k.a. Bangkok, Thailand."
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+ "fact": "The longest one-syllable word in the English language is \"screeched.\""
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+ "fact": "The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotam-eteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-whenu a kitanatahu – a New Zealand hill."
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+ "fact": "The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds"
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+ "fact": "The longest word in the English language is 1,913 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. "
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+ {
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+ "fact": "The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is \"lollipop\" - 8 letters."
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+ "fact": "The longest word used by Shakespeare in any of his works is “honorificabilitudinitatibus,” found in “Love’s Labours Lost.”"
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+ "fact": "The longest word used in Shakespeare's plays was honorificabilitudinitatibus."
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+ "fact": "The loudest sound in history was recorded in July 1883 when a volcano on the tiny Indian Ocean island of Krakatau erupted. The explosion was heard 3,000 miles away in Madagascar. Ash clouds shot 25 miles into the sky. The eruption also created giant tsunami, sea waves, that reached heights of 175 feet, speeding across the ocean at 400 miles an hour and destroyed over 300 towns."
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+ "fact": "The lowest number, when spelled out, that uses every vowel, is one thousand twenty-five (1025)."
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+ "fact": "The record for most snowfall in a day, 78 inches, was made on February 7, 1916 in Alaska."
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+ "fact": "The record for the world’s worst drivers is a toss-up between two candidates: First, a 75-year-old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses, an caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes on October 15, 1966. Second, a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August, 1970 (by that time, she had spent over $700 in lessons, and could no longer afford to buy a car)."
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+ "fact": "The record for traveling from New York to Los Angeles by motorcycle is 45 hours, 41 minutes. It was set in 1968 by Tibor Sarossy, riding a BMW Model R69S. Sarossy made four fuel stops, never slept, fainted twice, and averaged 58.7 miles per hour all the way across."
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+ "fact": "The record number of people crammed into a 1998 Volkswagon Bug and still able to close all doors is 18. They were college students."
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+ "fact": "The tallest man in this world was Robert Wadlow, a chinese man who was 7’1″ tall!"
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+ "fact": "The world record for rain boot tossing is 179.14 feet (54.60 m)."
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+ "fact": "The world record for rain boot tossing is 179.14 feet."
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+ "fact": "The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours."
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+ "fact": "The world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches."
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+ "fact": "The world record for the most people kissed is held by Alfred Wolfram of Minnesota who kissed 11,030 people in 8 hours, at a festival in 1998."
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+ "fact": "The world's fastest ship weighs 112 tons and travels at 102 miles (164 km) per hour."
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+ "fact": "The world's largest Gothic cathedral is in New York City. It is the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue and 112th Street. The cathedral measures 601 feet long, 146 feet wide, and has a transept measuring 320 feet from end to end."
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+ "fact": "The world's largest McDonalds is located on I-44 at Vinita, Oklahoma. It goes from one side of the interstate to the other, passing over the interstate."
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+ "fact": "The world's largest coffee pot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It measures 24 Feet(7.3 Meters) tall, is made of sheet metal and could hold 150,000 8 ounce cups of coffee."
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+ "fact": "The world's largest collection of preserved human brains is maintained in a WWII era bomb shelter beneath the Runwell Psychiatric Hospital in Essex, England. 8,000 brains collected over the past 40 years are available for researchers to study."
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+ "fact": "The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
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+ "fact": "The world's largest wine cask is in Heidelberg, Germany."
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+ "fact": "The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours."
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+ "fact": "The world's longest hair, grown by Mr. Hook, is 17 feet 2.3 inches (5.24 m) long. Now in his late 80's, Mr. Hook has not had a hair cut since his late teens because he became ill after a trim and a dream warned him against further snips. He washes it once a year."
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+ "fact": "The world's longest name officially used by a person is \"Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior\" which is composed of 28 words or 192 letters."
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+ "fact": "The world's longest snake (by reliable documentation) is the reticulated python, with a maximum length of, perhaps, 30 feet."
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+ "fact": "The world's oldest active parliamentary body is the Icelandic Althing which met first before the year 1000."
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+ "fact": "The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!"
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+ "fact": "The world's shortest river is the \"D\" river in Oregon. It's only 120 feet (37 m). It connects Devil's lake to the nearby Pacific Ocean."
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+ "fact": "The world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, are also the fastest growing. Their growth - about half an inch a year — is caused by the pressure exerted by two of the earth's continental plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate) pushing against one another."
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+ "fact": "The world's two largest dams in terms of height are both in Russia. They are the inguri (988 feet high) and the Nurek (984 feet high)"
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+ "fact": "The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910."
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+ "type": "records",
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+ "fact": "The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!"
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+ "fact": "The world’s largest clams weigh almost 500 pounds."
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+ "fact": "The world’s largest gum drop was 11 lbs, 9 inches tall, and contained 15,250 calories."
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+ "fact": "The world’s largest oatmeal cake was baked and built in Bertram, Texas during Labor Day weekend 1991. The 33-layer cake stood more than 3 feet tall, weighed 333 pounds, and served 3,333 people. I’ve been to Bertram, and it has to be the worst speed trap in Texas."
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+ "fact": "The world’s largest squid was 35 feet long and weighed 2.2 tons."
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+ "fact": "The world’s longest mustache is more than eight feet long."
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+ },
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+ "fact": "The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910."
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+ },
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+ "fact": "The youngest Pope was 11 years old."
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+ },
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+ "fact": "The youngest person to receive a driver’s license is a 14 year 8 month year old by the name of Andrezej Makowski."
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+ },
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+ "fact": "Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a basketball game in 1962, when he played for the Philadelphia Warriors."
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+ "fact": "\"Bible\" comes from Latin biblia, meaning \"books\""
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+ "fact": "A Bible published in England in 1632 missed out the word 'not' in the seventh Commandment, making it 'Thou shalt commit adultery'. It became known as 'The Wicked Bible'."
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+ },
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+ "fact": "According to the Bible, there are 12 pearly gates."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "fact": "All Hebrew orignating names that end with the letters \"el\" have something to do with God."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the books title comes from."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Bethany is the traditional site of the ascension."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Both Esther and Song of Solomon do not mention the word God."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Cain was the first baby born in the bible."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Christianity has a billion followers. Islam is next in representation with half this number."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Delilah had to cut seven tresses of hair from Samson's head to render him powerless."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Dismas and Gestas were the names of the two thieves crucified with Jesus."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Enoch and Elijah are the 2 men in the bible that don't die."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "In a century's time, Islam had converted 1/3 of the world."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "In addition to the animals there were eight people on Noah's Ark. Noah, his wife, his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "In the bible the word girl appears only once."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Jesus is believed to have spoken in Aramaic, the language then in use in the Arabian peninsular where he lived. A modern version of the language is still spoken in Syria."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Jesus was baptized in the River Jordan by John The Baptist."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Jesus was described as 'King of Jews' as a deliberate insult to the Jewish authorities on the part of Pilate, the governor of Judea."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "John Wycliffe wrote the first English translation of the bible. (Middle English 1380's)"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "King James I produced his authorized version of the bible in 1611."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Methuselah lived to be 969 years old, according to Genesis."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Portions of the Bible have been printed in 2,212 languages. A complete Bible exists in 366 languages; an additional 928 languages have a New Testament; and 918 have at least one book of the Bible."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Salome's dance was the only solo dance mentioned in the Bible."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Saul was the first king of the Jews."
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+ },
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Scholars estimate that the 66 books of the King James version of the Bible were written by some 50 different authors."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Seven suicides are mentioned in the Bible."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic did not contain a way of saying 'many' and used a term that has come down to us as '40'. This means that when the Bible refers to 40 days it actually means 'many days'."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "St.Paul was the main writer of the epistles."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The 27 books of the Bible's New Testament are believed to have been written circa AD 100, about 70 to 90 years after the death of Christ."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Bible consists of a collection of 66 seperate books. These books were chosen, after a bit of haggling, by the Catholic Council of Carthage in 397 AD - more than 350 years after the time of Jesus. This collection is broken into two major sections: The Old Testament, which consists of 39 books, and the New Testament, which consists of 27 books. (Catholic Bibles include an additional 12 books known as the Apocrypha)"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith but over 2,000 verses on money and possessions."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Bible does not say there were three wise men, or magi; it only says there were three gifts. It is believed there were anywhere between 2 and 9 magi."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Bible has been translated into over 2,000 languages"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Bible is actually a library of 66 books, written by 44 authors over a period of about 1500 years"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Bible was the first book to be printed, in 1454"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, named in the Bible's Book of Revelation, are Conquest, Slaughter, Famine and Death."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagent."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Lord's Prayer appears twice in the Bible - in Matthew VI and Luke XI."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The New Testament was originally written in Greek"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Old Testament is almost identical to the Jewish Tanakh"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Pekingese dog was considered sacred among Chinese Royalty. At the court of Li Hsui, one of the last Manchu queens, all court Pekingese had human wet nurses. Each dog had its own eunuch to protect it from other dogs; some even had private palaces, complete with servants."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The Red Sea is not mentioned in the Bible."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The book of Esther is the only book of the Bible that never mentions God"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The book of Kells were found in 8th century in Ireland."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $6,400."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The crucifixion of Jesus took place on Calvary Hill (known as Golgotha in Hebrew)."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The first Bible to be published in America was in the language of the Algonquian Indians."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The first English translation of the new testament was by William Tynedale. (1526 Early modern English)"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The first complete version of the bible actually printed in English was the Coverdale Bible in 1535 compiled by Myles Coverdale."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The first drunk to appear in the bible was Noah."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The longest book in the bible is the Book of Psalms."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The longest name in the Bible is Mahershalalbaz."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The longest verse in the Bible is Esther 8:9"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The most common name in the Bible is Zechariah. There are 33 of them."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The most mentioned woman in the bible is Sarah at 56 times"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The names of the two theives crucified with Jesus were Dismas and Gestas."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The only woman whose age is mentioned in the Bible is Sarah, who bore Abraham a child, Isaac, when she was 90. She was said to die at the age of 127."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The savage Salem witch trials in the seventeenth century were all based on a sinlge line in the Exodus: 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The shortest book in the Bible is 2 John."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The shortest verse in the Bible is John 11:35"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The three wise men were called Balthazar, Caspar and Melchior."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The world population at the time of the Crucifixion was about 200 million."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "The writers of the New Testament used a Greek translation of the OT known as the Septuagint"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "There are 150 Psalms in the bible."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "There are 39 books in the old testament and 27 in the new testament."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "There were 3 decks on Noah's Ark."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Two chapters in the Bible, 2 Kings and Isaiah 37, are alike almost word for word."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "Two chapters in the Bible, 2 kings 19 and Isaiah 37, are alike almost word for word."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "type": "religion",
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+ "fact": "War, Famine, Pestilence and Death were the four horseman of the apocalypse."
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+ }
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+ ]