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8 Hours of Random Useless Facts to Fall Asleep To

Settle in for eight full hours of the world’s most wonderfully random trivia. Tonight you’ll learn why a priceless Stradivarius violin has barely been touched in over 300 years, what a 3,800-year-old customer complaint says, and why a lake in Australia stays bubblegum pink even when you scoop the water into a glass. You’ll discover that European painters once made pigment from ground-up Egyptian mummies, that Liechtenstein sent 80 soldiers to war and came back with 81, and that the Soviet Union once traded 17 submarines to Pepsi for soft drinks.

Along the way you’ll find out why your body…

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