“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Today we have a selection of fabulously fascinating facts.
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Just twenty seconds’ worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.
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Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks! They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year!
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Los Angeles’s full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, LA
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A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
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A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person. (Speak for yourself!)
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100 years from now Facebook will have the accounts of 500 million dead people.
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Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
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A Koala is the only animal that has finger prints.
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The average person spends two weeks of their lives waiting for a traffic light to change.
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A Blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
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A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
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There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.
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Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a $25 fine and trial costs.
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Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years.
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The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles.
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The population of the American colonies in 1610 was 350.
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Termites outweigh humans by almost ten to one.
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Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
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Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 TIMES more effective than Valium. So you have a headache? GREAT!!!
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Babies have no knee caps?? Really? That’s just weird….
Weird indeed!
Love it. One clarification …. Koalas are the only other animal with fingerprints. Blue Whale Tongue Soup would seem to be a delicacy.
Blue Whale Tongue Soup would be a delicacy, but you might need a very big bowl.
But Koalas and what other?
Some primates like gorillas and chimps do as well.
Very good. I wondered about those. Thank you.
The fascinating fact should probably have been that the Koala is the only animal that has fingerprints, not just similar to, but identical to humans.
Sex and a whales tongue, hmmm
Gosh! 😯