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In a Peruvian goldmine miners work for 30 days with no pay but on the 31st day they get to bring home as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders.

New York has an official militia called the New York Guard. Anyone 18-62 can join and basic training lasts 1 week. If you're in it, you don't have to pay tolls in New York.

Mount Kosciuszko was thought to be the highest mountain in Australia until Mount Townsend was found to be slightly taller. Rather than re-educating the public that Townsend was the new highest mountain, the New South Wales Lands Department simply switched their names.

The Pony Express only lasted from April 3, 1860 to October 1861, before the telegraph made it obsolete.

The largest anti-smoking ad campaign "Truth" is funded by the tobacco companies as part of a settlement to be exempted from individual lawsuits stemming from harm caused by tobacco.

The playtypus has no nipples, and milk simply oozes from their skin.

Bride Jeni Stepien was walked down the aisle by the man who got her father's donated heart. Arthur Thomas got Michael Stepien's heart & the families kept in touch. When Arthur walked Jeni down the aisle, he suggested that she grip his wrist to feel the pulse from her father's heart.

Golfer Cameron Tringale asked to be disqualified from the PGA Championship after he passed his putter over his ball and felt he may have misreported his score by not counting it as a shot. His honesty cost him $53000 in tournament earnings.

There is one person still living who was born in the 19th Century - Susannah Mushatt Jones, born July 6, 1899

The term "kangaroo court" comes from travelling judges "hopping from place to place, guided less by concern for justice than by the desire to wrap up as many trials as the day allowed."

Hackers broke into Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter account. They say his password was 'dadada'.

The Australian rower Bobby Pearce once stopped during a rowing race in the 1928 Olympics to allow a family of ducks pass, and still won out of eight competitors in that round

Long-distance swimming is unique among the world's various athletic competitions. It is one of very few endurance sports where there are women's records that beat men's records under equal conditions, especially as the distances increases.

Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can't drive cars.

The brain takes 13 milliseconds to process an image. In other words, you live at a ping of 13.