In 1726, Surrey, England, a woman named Mary Toft managed to trick doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. Mary did this by shoving the rabbits up her vagina before pushing them out and 'birthing' them.

The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross.

There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.

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