If It’s Facts You Want Here They Are!

“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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