“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Hello folks. Thanks for stopping by.
Here are today’s factoid offerings.
Hope you enjoy.
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You can’t breathe and swallow at the same time.
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There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards
than there are atoms on Earth.
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Africa is bigger than the United States, China, India, Spain, France,
and several other countries combined.
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Norway once knighted a penguin.
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You can get a rough estimate of the temperature by
counting the number of times a cricket chirps in 13 seconds,
then adding 40.
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It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose.
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Quarantine comes from the French “qarante” for 40.
Whenever a ship arriving in port was suspected of being infected
it had to forego contact with the shore for a period of about 40 days.
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On average, astronauts are two inches taller in space.
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Ohio is the only U.S. state that doesn’t share
any letters with the word “mackerel.”
(I have no idea who figured that one out,
but they clearly had too much free time on their hands!)
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Wombat poop is square.
(Ouch!!!)
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There is enough iron in your body to make a 2-inch nail.
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The “S” in Harry S. Truman’s full name doesn’t stand for anything.
His parents couldn’t decide on a middle name for over a month,
so they settled on the letter “S” in honor of his maternal grandfather, Solomon Young,
and his paternal grandfather, Anderson Shipp Truman.
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The girlfriend of the guy who founded Match.com
left him for a man she met on Match.com.
(So that’s why he did it!)
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George Washington was 48 years old
when Beethoven was born.
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The British music group ‘Simply Red’
is named because of its love for the football team,
Manchester United, who have a red home strip.
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Okay, so who tried to hum while holding their nose, come on?
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