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The first Zombie Walk took place at Monroeville Mall, which is the location where George Romero filmed Dawn of the Dead.

Since about 1500 AD, there has been an estimated total of 100,000 tons of gold that have been mined.

There is a practice in some hotels in Japan of folding the first square of the roll into origami shapes.

There's a certain way you have to ride an elevator in New York. Doing so in a way they haven't mandated is technically illegal.

The first Olympic Games were held in Elis, a site in Ancient Greece. They were held in honor of the infamous Greek Gods.

Wedding rings have been in use since the time of the Egyptians, though they became widely popular in the 9th Century.

Unlike Easter and Christmas, May Day is the one festival of the year which has no significant church service.

Did you know that most socks in the USA are inexplicably lost in washing machines?

Did you know that on the night of Titanic’s sinking there were six iceberg warnings which were all ignored?

Dr. Pepper is the oldest brand in America for the production of soft drinks! The very first bottle sold in January, 1885.

A whopping 3% of all incarcerated prisoners have managed to escape at some point or another.

The first recorded April Fool's Day was in the Nun's Priest Tales in 1392 by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales author.