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• [Places fact 1] The names of the territories of Greenland translate to "much ice", "center", "south" and "darkness."

  Countries, Placessource

• [Places fact 2] In 1955, 14 government employees flying to Area 51 died after their plane crashed into a nearby mountain. In 2016, a memorial was constructed in their honor, containing “many hidden messages.”

  Government, Placessource

• [Places fact 3] There is a Carbook golf course in Australia with full-grown bull sharks living in the water hazards.

  Animals, Games, Placessource

• [Places fact 4] Sleep Country Canada and Sleep Country USA are unaffiliated but they share the slogan “Why buy a mattress anywhere else?”

  Placessource

• [Places fact 5] At one point 90% of the world's needles came from a Worcestershire town called Redditch.

  Misc, Placessource

• [Places fact 6] More people have been to the moon than to the bottom of the ocean’s deepest point, Mariana Trench.

  Places, Spacesource

• [Places fact 7] In 1992, a UK regulation required dance clubs to provide free water and chill-out rooms in response to a number of Ecstasy-related injuries and deaths

  Death, Placessource

• [Places fact 8] China has planted the biggest artificial forest in the world to stop the spread of the Gobi desert and plans to expand it to 2,800 miles by 2074

  Forest, Placessource

• [Places fact 9] The Spanish Inquisition lasted 356 years, more than 100 years longer than the United States has been an independent nation (241)

  Places, Religionsource

• [Places fact 10] Painless Parker was an early 20th-century street dentist who pulled 357 teeth in 1 day (he wore them on a necklace) and ran the Parker Dental Circus. A bucket of teeth he pulled is on display at Temple’s Historical Dental Museum. The ADA called him “a menace to the dignity of the profession.”

  Humanbody, People, Placessource

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