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“Never miss a good chance to shut up.” – Will Rogers

• Sean Connery once polished coffins for cash.

• There are 27 moons orbiting Uranus. (pun intended)

• More than 29 years after the Japanese surrendered in World War II, Lt. Onoda Hiro was discovered in the Philippines. He refused to surrender until he was ordered to do so by his commanding officer.

• In Sri Lanka, nonverbal signals for agreement are reversed from those in Western countries. Nodding your head means “no” and shaking your head from side-to-side means “yes.”

• A person can’t be a sumo wrestler in Japan unless he weighs more than 154 pounds and is taller than five feet seven inches.

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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchill

• President. James Garfield was shot by an assassin in 1881. Six doctors attempted to treat the wounded president, but several probed the wound with their bare fingers, introducing a fatal infection into his body.

• Lloyds of London Paid out $3,019,400 in insurance claims to the families of the victims who perished in the Titanic disaster.

• Ermal Fraze invented the pop-top aluminum can in 1963, he received U.S. patent number 3,349,949 for the design.

• Approximately 75% of what we think we taste is actually coming from our sense of smell.

• Couples married in the first three months of the year tend to have higher divorce rates than those married in the later months.

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“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.” – Lao Tzu