In 1999, Norway granted refuge to a U.S. drug smuggler because the Supreme Court declared that U.S. prisons do not meet “minimum humanitarian standards.”
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More than 200 million tons of human waste goes untreated every year.
One particular individual likes to roll it in between his fingers and share it on the internet.
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You can save 2,190 gallons of water per person per year by only flushing the toilet once a day.
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According to a 2009 list in the Ethnologue, there were 6,909 distinct languages spoken by humans.
What do these things have in common?
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Dubai man Mohammad Basheer bought a lottery ticket before boarding an Emirates flight that crashed. He escaped the crash and won the lottery.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of a seminal philosophical work on education, gave up his 5 children to a foundling hospital, saying he “didn’t have the means to take care of them.”
