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During Japan’s period of self-imposed isolation, it was illegal to travel beyond the borders of the country, upon pain of death. There was almost no contact with the outside world, except on a tiny island situated in the harbor of the city of Nagasaki. Its name was Deijima, and it was here that a small community of individual were allowed to trade on behalf of the Dutch colonial powers. Here, they taught practices of Western medicine, traded European goods and even kept concubines from the local population. Intrigued? Check out the spellbinding novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacbod De Zoet by David Mitchell to delve into this intriguing historical anomaly.

Tetley is the biggest tea company in the United Kingdom and Canada. The founders were the Tetley brothers who got their start by selling salt before later selling tea as well. They had so much success with the drink that they changed their offerings and called themselves "Joseph Tetley & Co."

How does Santa Claus manage to deliver all the Christmas presents in just one night? According to calculations, his sleigh would have to move at 3,780,000 kph and he would have to make roughly 1,000 deliveries per second. At such speeds, his reindeer would instantly be burned into a crisp, and Santa himself would be squashed into a pulp.