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• [Places fact 1]  Every banana sold in the UK is a clone of the banana grown at the famous Staffordshire theme park 'Alton Towers.' 

  Food, Places source

• [Places fact 2]  Bruce Lee had to flee Hong Kong for the US after he got into a street fight with the son of an organized crime leader.

  Actors, Places source

• [Places fact 3]  There was an epidemic of Satanic ritual abuse across America in the 1980s that turned out to be completely imagined. People were recalling memories of sexual abuse and cannibalism that never even occurred.

  Places, Religion source

• [Places fact 4]  The Oak Island Money Pit is a mysterious pit on an island in Nova Scotia. Many people think the pit holds buried treasure. The pit has been baffling treasure hunters for over 200 years. There are booby traps, secret tunnels and clues around the island. No one knows what it's hiding, who built it, or when. The excavation started in 1795 but to this day what is at the bottom of the hole remains a mystery.

  Mystery, Places source

• [Places fact 5]  Over 2000 large man-made tunnels, known as "Erdstall", have been discovered across Europe, and nobody knows who made them or why

  Mystery, Places source

• [Places fact 6]  The story of the Chernobyl power plant didn’t end with the tragedy of 1986. There was actually a second fire that broke out on Reactor 2 in 1991, and it wasn’t until 2000 that the last operating reactor was fully shut down.

  Disaster, Places source

• [Places fact 7]  George Washington considered burning down all of NYC.

  Disaster, Places, President source

• [Places fact 8]  During the San Francisco Police Department Strike of 1975, the SFPD clashed with the law and the Mayor. Eventfully a bomb was detonated on the Mayor's lawn with a sign reading "Don't Threaten Us."

  People, Places source

• [Places fact 9]  4 US states have completely banned billboards

  Places source

• [Places fact 10]  A captive killer whale at MarineLand discovered it could regurgitate fish onto the surface of the water, attracting sea gulls, and then eat the birds. Four others then learned to copy the behavior.

  Animals, Places source

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