“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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More interesting facts today.
Hats definitely off to James Harrison, but my favorite is Bill Morgan.
Enjoy.
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We’ll start with one in honor of the recently passed St Patrick’s Day.
St Patrick’s given name was Maewyn Succat.
After becoming a priest, he changed his name to Patricius,
from the Latin term meaning “father figure.”
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Esperanto is an artificial language,
but is spoken by about 500,000 to 2,000,000 people,
and 2 feature films have been done in the language.
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After the bible,
the most translated book in the world is
Pinocchio.
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Hall of fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight
because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring.
After a priest and minister convinced him to fight, Robinson went into the ring
and killed his opponent Jimmy Doyle.
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The German word for birth control pill is ‘antibabypille’
and in Switzerland they have pregnancy tests
called ‘MaybeBaby’ in vending machines.
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After 9/11, 1600 people died in automobile accidents
after they switched travel plans from flying to driving.
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If officials awarded Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France title
to the next fastest finisher who has never been linked to doping,
they would have to give it to the person who finished 23rd.
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When US Army officer Braxton Bragg held both the job of
the company commander and the post’s quartermaster,
he made a request to the quartermaster (that is, himself)
and when he received the request as quartermaster he denied it.
He continued to argue back and forth with himself through letters.
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In 2010 workers at Ground Zero found an 18th century wooden ship
underneath the World Trade Center rubble.
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When child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18,
he found out all his money, $68 million,
had been spent by his mother, who argued
“No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything.
Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents.”
Coogan’s Bill was then passed to protect child actors.
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In Samoa, it’s a crime to forget your own wife’s birthday.
(Isn’t that true for most places?)
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Ryan Gosling was cast as Noah in The Notebook
because the director wanted someone “not handsome.”
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After needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13,
a man named James Harrison, aka “The Man With The Golden Arm”,
pledged to donate blood once he turned 18.
It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen
which cured Rhesus disease.
He has donated blood a record 1000 times
and saved 2,000,000 lives.
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In 1942 in Mississippi there was a man known as the Phantom Barber
who would break into peoples’ houses at night and cut their hair.
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In 1999 an Australian man, named Bill Morgan
was declared dead for 14 minutes after an allergic reaction to drugs
given to him in hospital after a car accident.
To celebrate his survival he bought a scratch card
and won a $27,000 car.
A news team covering the story asked him to re-enact
the scratch card moment for their story,
so he went into the shop, bought another scratch card,
and won $250,000 jackpot.
Here he is….
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Like the guy who cut his finger off at work. Returned and showed a fellow employee how he did it and cut another finger off.
Don’t know how true it is, but have heard it enough to now doubt it.
I content myself in the knowledge that there is at least one person out there dumb enough to do it 🙂