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Japan’s Kabukicho Robot Restaurant resembles an automated gentleman’s club, complete with raunchy robots.

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In Jamaica, to symbolize growth and connection with the child’s roots, families bury a baby’s placenta and plant a tree on top of it.

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The MahaNakhon in Bangkok was made to appear as though it is pixelated.

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In Paris, it is illegal to distribute images of the Eiffel tower taken at night due to copyright issues regarding the light display.

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In 2013, it was reported that one of Oxford’s Bullingdon Club’s initiation rituals required members to burn a £50 note in front of a beggar.

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Yellowstone National Park is actually a super volcano, and it threatens the existence of life on Earth.

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In 2011, Tokyo's Shiodome Nihon TV Studios recorded one of the greatest human feats of all time, when 21 members of the Caless Dance School squeezed into a Mini Cooper.

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Few people know just how dark California’s history gets.

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In 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a huge cloud of carbon dioxide suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock who lived near the lake.

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Few people know just how advanced and impressive ancient Indian society really was.

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The Bermuda Triangle has claimed countless victims, and has kept its secrets beneath violent waters for centuries—but new evidence finally gives a possible explanation for these ancient mysteries.

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There’s also a weird, dark side to the palace of Versailles: controversial treaties, ghost stories, and even time travel conspiracies have piqued an interest in modern times.



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