When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, the empty space it left on the wall attracted more visitors than the painting had.

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Leonardo da Vinci claimed to have dissected more than 30 people in his pursuit to further understand human anatomy, and his more than 240 detailed drawings and over 13,000 words of observations revealed many then unknown characteristics of our bodies. However, all this remain unpublished. 

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Back in 1999, you could sign into any Hotmail account by the password 'eh', which was a security flaw.

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There’s an opera house on the U.S.–Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.

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In 1958, a man decided to name his son “Winner”. Three years later, he had another son who he named “Loser”. “Winner” became a hardened criminal and “Loser” became a detective

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In 1995, scammers based in Nigeria defrauded the director of a Brazilian bank out of $242 million, including selling him a fake airport. 

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Since 2010, Google has been acquiring an average of one company every week

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If you are trying to sleep, avoid the color blue. Blue decreases the production of melatonin (one of the hormones resonsible for sleep) because it is the color of the sky, making the brain believe that it is day time and not time for sleep.

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Ace Greenberg, former CEO of Bear Stearns, donated $ 1 million so that poor, impotent men could have Viagra.

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In 1986, an Indian flight attendant named Neerja Bhanot was on plane that got hijacked. The terrorists were targeting Americans, so Bhanot hid the passports of 43 Americans on board, helped passengers escape, and died while shielding three children from a hail of gunfire.

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The most expensive pizza in the world costs $12,000 and takes 72 hours to make.

#Food

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Nuns were accused of embezzling half a million dollars from catholic school to gamble in Vegas.

They went straight from "What would Jesus do" to "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"😂😂

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Paul walker was in a jewelry store one day when he noticed a young U.S. military veteran with his fiancee shopping for a wedding ring. Paul went to the manager and said: "Put that girls ring on my tab."

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In 2013, two men tried to rob a restaurant but were told by the owner to come back after an hour. When the men returned back after an hour, they were arrested.

😂😂🤦‍♂ Hilarious Stupidity

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Due to a clerical error, the state of Missouri assumed that a man named Mike Anderson was in prison, serving his thirteen year sentence for armed robbery. Its only when they began preparing for his release did they realise that law enforcement had forgotten to take him to jail.

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Jack Nicholson was raised by his grandparents while his birth mother, June Nicholson, pretended to be his sister. He only found out who his real mother was when he turned 37.

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Recent study by the university of Pennsylvania shows that women find bald men more attractive,dominant and confident than men with hair.

On my way to the barber shop✂️✂️

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In 1988, a Brazilian magazine jokingly announced that a monkey was a mayoral candidate for Rio de Janeiro. He got 400,000 votes and came in third place out of 12 candidates.

Imagine losing a statue😂😂

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LeBron James opened a new public school to help at-risk students in his hometown. It's called the "I Promise School," and the students have 8-hour days, a longer school year, and receive free meals, bikes, and tuition.

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