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  • Belle from Disney’s “”Beauty and the Beast”” makes a cameo appearance in Disney’s “”The Hunchback of Notre Dame.””
  • Close to three billion movie tickets are sold in India every year.
  • In Greece, the climate is so warm that many movie theaters do not have roofs.
  • A leech can gorge itself with up to five times its body weight.
  • A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
  • A slug has four noses.
  • Forty-five percent of Americans don’t know that the sun is a star.
  • A pregnant woman was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball in 1985.
  • Kissing is illegal on railways in France.
  • In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on the Sabbath.
  • David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in American law at the time.
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