Useless trivia and facts

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Big Ben's clock stopped at 10:07 p.m. on 27 May 2005, most likely due to extremely hot temperatures.

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Walt Disney currently holds the most Academy Awards.

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There's a fruit that tastes like chocolate pudding. It's called black sapote, and it's native to Central and South America. Apparently it tastes like chocolate and sweet custard.

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Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic. When she was 16, the Queen joined the British employment agency at the Labour Exchange and learned the basics of truck repair.

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The Easter Island heads have bodies. In the 2010s, archaeologists found that two of the Pacific Island figures actually had torsos that measured as high as 33 feet.

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M&Ms are named after the businessmen who created them. But what do the Ms stand for? Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie.

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Pigeons can tell the difference between Picasso and Monet. What?! A 1995 study shows that the birds can differentiate between the two artists.

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The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe. The 'octo' refers to the eight points in the symbol, but according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the 'thorpe' part is a mystery.

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The actors who voiced Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life. Russi Taylor (Minnie) and Wayne Allwine (Mickey) tied the knot in 1991.

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You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from over two miles away. Blue whales weigh an average of between 130,000 and 150,000 kg, with their hearts weighing roughly 180 kg.