“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Another chance to increase your knowledge with a very random list of facts from fasab’s files.
Have some fun throwing one or two of these into conversations. It will either make you the hit of the party, or you won’t be asked back. Possibly a win-win scenario!
As always, enjoy.
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“I” is the most spoken word in the English language
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“You” is the second most spoken English word
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An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver
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Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
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The average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime
just to pay their taxes
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A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.
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A rodents teeth never stop growing.
They are worn down by the animal’s constant gnawing
on bark, leaves, and vegetables.
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About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians
died by the time they were thirty.
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A Walla Walla scene
is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background
when they say walla walla it looks like they are actually talking.
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
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Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
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Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
(He’d have a fit if he knew I’d told you that!)
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In eighteenth century English gambling dens,
there was an employee whose only job
was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
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In England, in the 1800’s pants was considered a dirty word.
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In the movie “Star Trek: First Contact”,
when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth,
Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible
.. But New Zealand is missing.
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Irving Berlin, who was born on 11 May 1888
and who composed three thousand songs in his lifetime,
couldn’t read music.
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It is estimated that millions of trees in the world
are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts
and then forget where they hid them.
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Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear
while in the French resistance during World War II
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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street
were named after Bert the cop and Ernie
the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
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A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champange
will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
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So what’s the make up of a silver medal? 92.5% bronze?! 🙂
Good point. I always suspected that there was chocolate somewhere in below all that glitz 🙂
So that’s why the winners always crunch down on them… I had wondered about that…
New Zealand was destroyed, in the Eugenics Wars of 1996, by Khan Noonian Singh! According to the files in Memory Alpha.
Thanks you for that. Another Trekkie I think. Good to have you on board. Live long and prosper 🙂
I caught that global mapping mistake too!
You may like this cool tool from an older post that you probably haven’t seen
http://wp.me/p2f8G7-eT
Thank You!
Could the I and you factoids be related to selfishness and blaming others? Good raisin video …. but the real question about the raisin is why?
You could have hit it spot on re the I and the U. As for the raisin, I think it’s a political raisin, has no firm direction, just bouncing about trying to follow where it thinks the most bubbles (ie votes) are 🙂
Well said
I always wondered about Bert & Ernie!
LOL Now you know!
I think the real reason New Zealand is missing from “First Contact” is they had gotten tired of being associated with Australians, and moved the country further east. (You know the old joke – “If you tell an Aussie he’s just like an American, you better duck. If you tell a Kiwi he’s just like an Australian, you better say last rites!”) 😀
I believe the raisin does the dance, compliments of the bubbles getting trapped in the wrinkled skin. If you want to try a large-scale test, you supply the champagne and I’ll supply the wrinkles! (EEWWWW!!!!) 😉
Naw, if I did that I’d have to call you Bob 😉