1.
The London Underground trains were originally
steam powered.
2. Hundreds
of Jews from Amsterdam were fined for being late with their rent during their
incarceration in World War II concentration camps.
3. La
Sagrada Familia, in Spain, will take longer to complete than the Great Pyramid
of Egypt.
4. There
is a common Chinese idiom that states, "The ugly wife is a treasure at
home."
5. A
sapiosexual is a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence in others.
6. Kummerspeck
(‘grief bacon') is German for the weight put on from eating too much when
feeling sorry for yourself.
7. The
U.S. Embassy in Moscow caught fire in 1977. Sensitive information was stolen by
several fire fighters who were also KGB agents.
8.
Spain has more tourists than residents. 75 million
people visited Spain in 2016, while only 46 million people live there.
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