Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, is also the Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The film '2012' was banned in North Korea solely because the year 2012 coincides with Kim Il Sung's 100th birthday.
Scientists have discovered a naturally occurring protein that can be used to create ice cream that doesn’t melt.
India's first President Dr Rajendra Prasad only took 50% of his salary, claiming he did not require more than that.
After writing an 80,000 word thesis on SMS messaging, a woman named Caroline Tagg received a PhD in text messaging.
When the houses on the artificial island Palm Jumeirah in Dubai were available to the public, all 4,500+ of them were sold in 3 days.
When you use GPS, you're indirectly finding your way with quasars. GPS satellites orient themselves using extremely bright, extremely distant galaxies called quasars. Because of parallax, they're the closest thing there is to a fixed point in space.
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