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The universally used green-circle, blue-square and black-diamond ski ratings were originally created by Disney for a ski lodge that was never built.

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The current CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe and Procter & Gamble all attended the same high-school in Hyderabad, India.

The average modern high-school sprinter would have won gold in the 100m at the 1896 Olympics. The winning time back then was 12.0 seconds.

In the Scottish court system, alongside Guilty and Not Guilty, the jury can also deliver a “Not Proven” verdict — a unique third option that acquits the defendant but signals the jury wasn’t convinced.

Nobody knows how to properly pronounce “Halley’s Comet” – historians still debate on whether Edmond Halley pronounced his last name HAL-lee, HAY-lee, or HAW-lee.

The least populated capital city in the world is Ngerulmud, Palau, with an official population of 0.

There are no weight classes in professional sumo. Some wrestlers end up facing opponents more than twice their size, relying on technique instead of mass.

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