“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Welcome to another fact finding day on the fasab blog.
Fifteen more very random but hopefully interesting facts that you probably didn’t know.
Enjoy.
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If you live in France,
and happen to own a pig,
it is illegal to name it ‘Napoleon’.
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50 of the 83 restaurants
featured on Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
have been sold or shut down.
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In Turkey, it is illegal for a man
over 80 years old to become a pilot.
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It took 127 beers to make Andre The Giant
pass out in a hotel lobby;
he was so big, hotel management couldn’t
move him and left him there until the next day.
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If you have the plague you are not
permitted to flag down a taxi in London.
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If a set of identical twin women
married a set of identical twin men
and subsequently had children,
their kids would genetically be siblings.
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Every year Louis Vuitton burns
all of its unsold stock of bags.
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It is against the law in Barbados to wear any camouflage clothing,
but, hey, if it’s good enough whose going to notice?
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Sean Connery wore a wig in every
one of his Bond performances.
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Whilst chewing gum in Singapore is not illegal,
importing it, or selling it,
or spitting it on to the pavement definitely is.
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Peter Sellers was paid $1 million for his
part in the movie Dr. Strangelove,
55 percent of the film’s budget.
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In Canada stores are not
legally required to accept coins
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The United Arab Emirates donated a laptop
to every high school student in Joplin, Missouri,
after the city had been devastated by a tornado.
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Astronaut Pete Conrad’s first sentence on the moon was
“Oooh, is that soft an queasy”,
said in order to win a $500 bet.
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And speaking of the Moon,
the Moonwalk predates Michael Jackson by at least 50 years,
having been performed by James Brown, David Bowie,
Dick Van Dyke and Cab Calloway.
(MJ is still the best at it though.)
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127 beers? That’s a lot of beer!!! Love the moonwalk video … plus I wanted to stop by to say hello.
You’re always welcome. That sure is a lot of beer but look at all the size of the can in his big mitt! Sadly I can’t moonwalk no matter how many beers I have 😦
I have the same moonwalk-beer correlation quotient as you.
I think a lot more people should know positive things like the United Emirates thing!
Strange things do happen. Remember in a previous post Saddam Hussein got the freedom of Detroit because he donated hundreds of thousands of $$$ to a church there 🙂
That much beer? Didn’t they have a wheelchair? (not that I would know anything about that…)
I once met Sean Connery at an LA Country Club in the 90s. He wasn’t friendly, either, but he did try to smile (I didn’t have the nerve to talk to him.) 🙂
Is it possible that 007 is his score on social skills? Or maybe his martini had been stirred not shaken that day 🙂
Oohhh! I love that. Yes, he is a distinguished gentleman, so maybe that was his problem. heh heh