In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom.

With an average life expectancy of 81.2 years, the people of Okinawa, Japan live the longest.

A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit. The attacker was a passenger's cat, who got out of its travel bag.

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