“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Talk about random. Today’s selection certainly lives up to that description.
Hope you can find at least a few facts in this lot that you like.
Enjoy.
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The Swiss flag is square.
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All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York
were originally weighting stones
put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.
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There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.
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If you come from Manchester,
you are a Mancunian.
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The most remote inhabited place on Earth, Tristan de Cunha,
a small archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean
thousands of miles from both South Africa and South America,
has a population of only 271 people and mail only arrives a few times per year.
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At the last official census,
the hottest constantly inhabited region in the world
is Dallol in Ethiopia.
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The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm
and often hid the fact by posing with his hand
resting on a sword, or by holding gloves.
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A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands
has an upturned shell at its neck
so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.
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The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team
to win the World Series after being relocated.
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The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is ‘Live Free or Die’.
Ironically these license plates are manufactured
by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
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The common goldfish is the only animal that can
see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
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If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat
it measures 87 feet long.
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Camel’s milk does not curdle.
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A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan;
this is the only palindromic nationality.
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Hang On Sloopy
is the official rock song of Ohio.
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fasab 
Fascinating as always. I assume the Milwaukee Braves factoid is in regards to the modern era.