In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British.

The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old.

Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 people have been injured.

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