“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yes, here they are.
Fifteen more fabulous facts for you.
Hope you find something of interest in this selection.
Enjoy.
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When Canada’s Northwest Territories considered renaming itself
in the 1990s, one name that gained support was “Bob.”
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Some cats are allergic to humans.
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The largest flag ever made was unveiled in Romania on May 27th 2013;
it weighed 5 tons and used 44 miles of thread.
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Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland
in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
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George Washington insisted his continental army be permitted
a quart of beer as part of their daily rations.
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In Japan,
letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry
is considered good luck.
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Alaska is so big you could fit 75 New Jerseys in it.
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Sunglasses were actually invented by the Chinese but not to block the sun.
They were used by judges in courtrooms to hide their emotions.
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In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family
$16 million for the film of JFK’s assassination.
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The last widow of a Civil War soldier died in 2003.
Gertrude Janeway was 18 when she married 81 year old John Janeway in 1927.
When she died she was still receiving a monthly check for $70
from the Veterans Administration for a military pension
earned by her late husband on the Union side of the American Civil War.
The amount spanned three centuries.
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Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
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The Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders
who watered down beer would be executed.
(And quite right too.)
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During WWI, British tanks were initially categorized into “males” and “females.”
Male tanks had cannons, while females had heavy machine guns.
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Bikini designer Louis Reard said
a two-piece bathing suit couldn’t be called a bikini
“unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.”
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Sigourney Weaver actually made that
‘impossible’ basketball shot in, Aliens: Resurrection.
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Jeez, Sigourney actually MADE that shot? Wow – I am now, officially, more in love with her than I was. And that’s hard to believe, considering she is THE gold standard of insanely hot kick-ass heroines! 😀
So, if there were 75 Jerseys in Alaska, would Christie close all their bridges, too? Or just the ones to nowhere? 😉
I don’t know about the bridges but you’d need the jerseys to keep the cold out 😉
Things I did not know again! I’m getting quite an education here.
That’s what it’s all about. I just wish I could remember all this stuff 🙂