“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yes, another fact finding day here at the fasab blog.
Hope you find something of interest in this random selection.
Enjoy.
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There are two credit cards for
every person in the United States.
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There are more confirmed deaths from
drowning in molasses than from coyote attacks.
(21 people died in the 1919 Boston Molasses Disaster.
Only 2 fatal coyote-on-human attacks have been confirmed)
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A full head of human hair is
strong enough to support 12 tons.
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The deepest natural cave is the Krubera Cave, in Georgia;
it is the only known cave on Earth that is deeper than 2,000 meters.
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The deepest man made point is the TauTona Mine in Southern Africa
which at its deepest point is nearly 4,000 meters
beneath the surface of the Earth.
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Emus cannot walk backwards.
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Herbert Hoover’s son had two pet alligators,
which were occasionally permitted to
run loose throughout the White House.
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Stalin hated his son Yakov so much
that when he failed to commit suicide by shooting himself
Stalin’s only comment was that
“He can’t even shoot straight.”
During the war Yakov was captured by the Nazis and
Stalin refused to trade any soldiers to bring him back.
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Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate
Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point.
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When a coffee seed is planted,
it takes five years to yield it’s first consumable fruit.
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If you had a long enough straw,
you could only suction water upwards the length of 10 meters.
After that water spontaneously boils
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There are only three animals with blue tongues,
the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog
and the blue-tongued lizard.
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In 1973 the world’s most isolated tree
– in the middle of the Sahara Desert –
was struck and killed by a drunk driver.
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Naugahyde, plastic “leather”
was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
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In every show that Tom Jones and
Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote,
there is at least one song about rain.
(Couldn’t find a decent link for that. This is better.)
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