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Once you learn about something new, you start noticing it everywhere. It’s called the “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.” Fact source

About US$2 billion in lottery prizes go unclaimed every year in the U.S. Fact source

New York’s subway is the only rapid transit system in the world that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, almost nonstop since 1904. Fact source

Spartan men were not allowed to live with their families until they left their active military service at age 30. Fact source

1 IN 8 American workers has been employed by McDonald’s. Fact source

There’s a teddybear in every Dutch police car, in case something troubling happens to a child. Source