10 INTERESTING FACTS THAT YOU NEVER HEARD BEFORE

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  1. Brad Pitt was banned from entering China for his role in the movie Seven Years in Tibet (1997).

    He was banned along with Director Jean-Jacques Annaud and co-actor David Thewlis for portraying the Dalai Lama in positive light.
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  2. Speaking of patents, Halliburton Company once tried to patent patenting.

    The company filed for a patent on "patent acquisition and assertion by a (non-inventor) first party against a second party."
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  3. The world's largest family stays in India. The husband has 39 wives and 94 children.

    Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.
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  4. However, it has less population than the small country of Bangladesh.
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  5. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.

    Pluto is 2370 kilometres (1473 miles) across, which can easily fit within Russia’s largest east-to-west radius of 10,000 km and the north-to-south size of 4000 km.
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  6. Worldwide, women earn US$18 trillion but spend US$28 trillion.
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  7. The 110-acre 'Snake Island' in Sao Paulo has 4,000 snakes. Which is one snake for every 6 square yards. It is one of the world's deadliest islands. It is also home to Golden Lancehead. Its venom is capable of melting human flesh.
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  8. Once Global Warming helped settle a land dispute between India and Bangladesh. The area in question was New Moore, or South Talpatti. But the island drowned because of global warming in 2010.

    No land left, no dispute left.
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9.Prince Charles & Prince William always travel in separate planes in case there is a crash, one needs to survive.
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10.In 2011, a woman named Aimee Davison purchased a 'non visible' piece of art for $10,000. She was promised an entire wing of the museum named in her honour & a title card with a description of the piece. The artwork in question was "Fresh Air".
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Do comment down below which fact you like the most.

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Well in that case I have a lot of fresh air around here. Someone get me gazillion USD.. HAHAHAH

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That was a very informative post

Really...didn't knew most of these..wow

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