“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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There seems to be syndromes for just about anything these days/
Maybe that would make a good post on its own.
For today however you will have to be content with just one, mixed in with a lot of other facts too.
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Apparently in San Francisco
it is illegal to dry your car
with used underwear.
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Since the Space Shuttle electronics were
so outdated and nobody made them anymore,
NASA actually resorted to buying spare parts
on websites like eBay
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Only about 226,000 underwater marine species
have been identified and scientists estimate that
there could be up to 25 million marine species
living in the oceans.
This means less than 1% of all underwater
marine life has been discovered.
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Machu Picchu, the Incan citadel set high
in the Andes Mountains in Peru,
was so high in the mountains that it
wasn’t discovered until 1911.
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If it were a country,
McDonald’s would be the 90th richest
country on Earth.
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In the 80’s Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu
had the game of scrabble banned and described it
as “overly intellectual” and a “subversive evil”.
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Discovered in 1852 and named after
the Greek mythological figure Psyche,
16 Psyche is a one of the largest metal asteroids
in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Unlike most of other metal asteroids,
Psyche shows no sign of the presence of water
and is believed to have a purely iron-nickel composition.
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After falling asleep in class and being awakened
by a teacher smacking her palm down on his desk,
a 16 year old’s parents decided to sue the
Connecticut Board of Education
for the hearing loss he suffered.
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The thing that is always used
to measure your foot at the shoe store
is called a Brannock Device.
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Heart attack guns exist.
According to disclosures by the CIA in 1975,
there is such a thing as a ‘heart attack gun’.
It fires a bullet made of ice, dipped in shellfish toxin
that immediately induces a heart attack.
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The first solo person to circumnavigate the globe
using only human power
was Erden Eruc of Turkey who
walked and rowed right around the world!
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Paris Syndrome is a real psychological syndrome
that affects mostly Japanese people when they realize
that Paris isn’t as great a place as they thought it would be.
The Japanese embassy in France even has a
special hotline that tourists can call.
Symptoms include nausea and headaches.
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fasab 
Paris Syndrome – who knew! I suppose it could happen if one is too disappointed on a vacation.
What is it they say… better to travel than to arrive.