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The higher the GDP of a country, the more likely it is that Indian Premier Narendra Modi will hug its leader.
50 people still live inside Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel.
Between the ages of 14 and 17, the writer James Baldwin was a preacher.
The architect Gaudí made an upside-down model of a chapel using bags of lead and string.
Wages in the British Navy did not change between 1652 and 1797.
William the Conqueror was so fat that his body could not fit in his sarcophagus.
The heavyweight boxer Tony Galento once fought an octopus.
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