Useless trivia and facts

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More than two-thirds of millennials sleep nude.

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The average person, older than 10 years, has four to six dreams a night.

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During World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster due to the metal shortage. It was done for three years.

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Barbed wire was invented in 1845. That was responsible for putting cowboys out of business since it provided cheap and easy fencing.

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The first written instance of “OMG” that we know of was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.

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Pablo Picasso carried a revolver loaded with blanks, which he would fire at whoever asked him what his work “meant.”

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Ernest Wright’s 1939 novel Gadsby does not contain the letter “e.”

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The designer of the Eiffel Tower built an apartment in the tower itself, but he didn’t live there. Instead, he used it to entertain guests.

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Bluetooth is actually named after 10-th century Scandinavian king Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson.

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Pirates wore eye patches so their eye would always be acclimated to the darkness, allowing them to see in the darkness below decks in an instant.