“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yes, I have to admit that many of the facts that I use on these posts are just as big a surprise to me as they possibly are to you.
But I hope interesting, as well.
Here is the latest batch from the archives.
Enjoy.
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There are 13 ways to spell
the “o” sound in French
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There is a planet called HD189733b
where it rains glass sideways.
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The language of the Native American Zuni tribe
has resemblances to Japanese.
Subsequent research confirmed
biological similarities between the groups.
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For a long time the world believed Troy to be a mythical city
and the Trojan War to be little more than legend,
until Heinrich Schliemann discovered the actual remains of the city.
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Despite the common myth that large brains equal more intelligence,
people like Einstein actually had a smaller brain
(only difference is, he used his!)
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Vikings didn’t have horns on their helmets.
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A man named James Boole survived a fall of 6,000 feet
without a parachute with only a broken back and ribs.
It is estimated that when Boole hit the ground,
he was falling at about 100 kilometers per hour.
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There is no such thing as a banana tree,
bananas grow on a banana plant.
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Nuclear rain from the Chernobyl disaster
fell as far away as Ireland
where sheep farmers were banned from
selling their animals for human consumption for a time.
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For years Big Pharma made $millions off selling people
anti-stress drugs to cure their ulcers,
until an Australian scientist proved the ulcers
were quite often caused by bacteria and were easily curable.
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Fourteen of the original rides from
Disneyland’s 1955 opening are still in operation.
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Nice comes from a Latin word meaning “ignorant”.
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Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body
could cover about one square inch.
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When Robert Williams tried to retrieve
a faulty part at a Ford Motor’s casting plant,
the malfunctioning machine reactivated
and its arm slammed into his head, killing him instantly.
He is the first man in history to have been killed by a robot.
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In one of the stupidest decision
in the history of the music industry,
Decca Records turned down the Beatles
because they “weren’t sellable”.
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