The Boston Marathon is one of the oldest annual marathons.

The marathon race commemorates a legendary run in ancient Greece.

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There is a word in Japanese, 'tsundoku', meaning buying books and never reading them.

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The Magna Carta influenced later democratic principles.

Fact #616 · Culture

The America's Cup is the oldest international sporting trophy, first contested in 1851.

Fact #4991 · Culture

The CIA’s Project ARTICHOKE preceded MK-Ultra in studying interrogation methods.

Fact #1056 · Culture

Project Blue Book investigated reports of unidentified flying objects.

Fact #1047 · Culture

The CIA's Operation Ajax helped orchestrate a coup in Iran in 1953.

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Pianos have over 12,000 individual parts and are considered both string instruments and percussion instruments.

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