“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Welcome to another fasab fact day.
Random as always, but hopefully interesting as well, here is the latest batch of facts.
Enjoy.
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The maximum weight
for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
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On August 6, 1920 in a game between
the Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees,
Carl Mays (Yankees) pitched a ball towards Ray Chapman (Indians)
that hit him on the head, fatally wounding him.
Chapman is the only major league baseball player
to be fatally injured during a game.
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If you could compress the Earth down to the size of a marble
it would collapse on itself and become a black hole.
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The most valuable chocolate bar in the world is a
Cadbury’s chocolate bar that’s over a 100-years old
and went on Captain Robert Scott’s first
Discovery expedition to the Antarctic.
The bar, which was 4 inches long,
wrapped and uneaten, was bought for $687 by
an anonymous buyer at Christie’s, London in 2001.
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Your brain is actually more active
while you are sleeping.
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In her first solo skydiving jump, Shayna Richardson’s
main and reserve parachutes failed to deploy
and she fell 10,000 feet at 50 mph towards the ground.
She slammed into the asphalt face-first,
shattering her skull and pelvis.
Miraculously, she survived.
Even more miraculously,
the baby she carried
(which she found out about at the hospital)
survived as well.
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If you hear “code V” over a radio
in DIsney it means Vomit.
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October 4, 1957 is an historic date to be remembered,
it is the day the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 was launched.
On the same day America launched
the TV sitcom ‘Leave it to Beaver’.
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From the 19th to 20th century the French Empire
was the second largest in the world,
next to the British Empire,
extending to over 12 million square kilometers
and including territory in Africa and Southeast Asia.
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Cryptophasia is the name given to
secret languages spoken by twins.
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Austrian Hans Steininger was famous
for having the world’s longest beard.
One day there was a fire in town and being in a hurry
he forgot to role up his beard.
He accidentally stepped on it,
fell down, and broke his neck.
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One spoonful of matter from a neutron star
would weigh about a billion tons.
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According to new scientific studies,
eating chocolate can prevent pregnancy problems.
The chemical theobromine found in chocolate
may reduce preeclampsia, a major pregnancy complication.
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Tragedy comes from the Greek word “tragodia”
which means “song of the male goat”.
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Michael Di Lorenzo,
who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover
is one of the lead dancers in
Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” video.
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