“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Don’t be offended by the title.
An ‘F’ word here or there never hurt anyone.
So get stuck into the facts (that’s an ‘F’ word too!)
Enjoy.
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In 2011 approximately one third
of divorce filings in the US
contained the ‘F’ word,
yes, that’s the one
“facebook”.
(See, it wasn’t nearly
as bad as you thought.)
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HOT fact:
The temperature of the Earth’s core is
5500 degrees celsius (9900 degrees fahrenheit).
That is the same temperature as the surface of the sun.
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Getting a silver medal in the Olympics
will make you feel worse than getting a bronze
(because you just missed the gold)
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There is actually a beer brewed
from bananas in some countries
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Out of 44 Presidents of the United States,
32 have served in the military.
15 Presidents served in the Army/Army Reserve,
9 served in state militias,
6 served in the Navy/Naval Reserve
and 2 served in the Continental Army.
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Croatian Josip Belušic invented the speedometer.
(How about that for a fast fact?)
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Answering the call of nature is something
Europeans usually associate with the utmost privacy,
which is why American toilets,
with huge bottom and side gaps,
seem so weird to some foreigners.
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The first webcam was actually created
to monitor a coffee pot at
the University of Cambridge.
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Russian spies used to use hollow coins
to pass messages to each other in the US
and one of these coins made it into circulation.
One day a paperboy dropped the coin
and it split open revealing its coded contents.
The code baffled the FBI and CIA
until a Russian spy defected to the US
and interpreted the note.
It was a welcome message from Moscow
…and it was intended for him.
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In Australia there is a river
called the ‘Never Never River’.
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The toaster in your kitchen
contains a more powerful computer
than the one used by NASA
to send astronauts to the moon.
It only had 64Kbyte of memory
and operated at 0.043MHz.
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After the release of the Top Gun movie in 1986,
the US Navy stated that the number of
young men who wanted to become Naval Aviators
went up by 500 percent.
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Speedometer and webcam my favorites in this collection.
Good choices. Thanks for the comment.