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Pepsi once owned one of the largest submarine fleets in the world!

In 1990, Pepsi and the Soviet Union made one of the most famous and interesting trades ever. In exchange for Pepsi products, the Soviets gave Pepsi Stolinchnaya Vodka and a ship fleet consisting of 10 commercial ships, 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer!

The agreement reportedly was worth $3 billion, and it allowed Pepsi to expand their bottling network in the Soviet Union and it also helped the Russian Vodka market expand in the US.

In case you were wondering, Pepsi was not prepping for an attack. The ships were unusable and they were sold for scrap as a way to pay for shipping the Pepsi syrups to the Soviet Union.

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The sum of a tree's branches equals the thickness of its trunk!

It’s also called Da Vinci’s Rule of the Trees; and knew about this rule 500 years ago and it was recently validated by scientists who used ‘a lot of grad students’ to measure it. The rule hadn’t really been tested until recently.

Now scientists are trying to figure out *why* this holds true. There are currently two leading explanations for why this is true: One is that it’s because this ratio is conducive to effectively transporting sap.

The second, and the one that a new paper has given a lot of credence to, is that it’s the optimal size for resisting wind damage. They built sophisticated computer models that simulated a full tree, and then measured how thick branches had to be to minimize wind damage, and the Da Vinci rule always seemed to be validated.

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Porn actors are 80% less likely to have an STD than other people their same age!

A lot of people associate filming pornography with risky sexual behaviors. The truth of the matter might be quite the opposite. Because having to end your career due to an STD would be bad business, most studios have very tight controls over their actors’ health.

In fact, professional porn actors are 80% less likely to have an STD than members of the public of the same age. Here’s some more facts about this industry:

• 20% of men admit to watching porn at work.
• 25 to 33% of people who watch Internet porn are women.
• However, only 2% of paying porn subscribers are female.
• Female performers earn between $600 to $1000 per scene. Men usually get less than $150.

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As a reward for winning the Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr got a house filled with unlimited beer!

In 1922, Niels Bohr - a renowned scientist at the time, and perhaps one of the greatest scientific minds that ever lived, received The Nobel Prize for his investigations into the structures of atoms and his early work in Quantum Mechanics. Bohr essentially advanced chemistry to the point where his studies had changed chemistry forever.

After receiving this prestigious award, Bohr became a national treasure, and was famed throughout Denmark. In fact, people respected him so much, Bohr found himself receiving gifts left right and center. One such gift was from the Carlsberg Brewery, which gave him a house in a plot of land beside the brewery.

Why was this gift so special? Well, the house came with a pipeline that went directly to the brewery, and supplied Bohr with FREE beer - for the rest of his life.

Everyone, focus on your education and become a scientist - you may just get free beer out of it.

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Fight Clubs has a Starbucks cup in every single scene!

If you haven't seen Fight Club, it's one of those movies that is so incredibly mind bending that you have to see it at some point in your life. Not only is the film an incredible roller coaster ride of emotion and plot twists, there are hundreds of fun facts within the film.

For example, there is a cup of Starbucks in every scene of the movie. This isn't an exaggeration either, the director, David Fincher, confirmed this fact. In fact, Starbucks had no problem with their name and products being used constantly throughout the film. However, Starbucks drew the line when a coffee shop is destroyed - their logo doesn't appear on the building.

If you've seen the film, you better click the source to read more facts like this one! Careful though, there are a few spoilers.

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