“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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April is drawing to a close, but not before another selection of fabulous fasab facts.
Here’s the latest random bunch to improve your knowledge.
Hope you enjoy.
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There are more possible iterations of a game of chess
than there are atoms in the known universe.
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Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs sacrificed money
and stayed in college four extra years
instead of going directly to the NBA
because in her last days his dying mother made
him promise to graduate college with a degree.
(Good on you Tim!)
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England’s King George I
was actually German.
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A study conducted by Swiss University
showed that stockbrokers
are more reckless and manipulative
than diagnosed psychopaths.
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In his youth, Andrew Johnson apprenticed as a tailor.
Even as president, he never stopped making his own suits.
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There is a point in the middle of Chile’s Atacama Desert
where rain has never been recorded.
Scientists call this region “absolute desert”.
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Lord Byron kept a pet bear
in his college dorm room.
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If you eat a polar bear liver, you will die.
Humans can’t handle that much vitamin A.
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Dead people can get goosebumps.
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Kim Jong Il wrote six operas.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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The top layer of a wedding cake,
known as the groom’s cake,
traditionally is a fruit cake.
That way it will save until the first anniversary.
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Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat
into a functioning telephone in 1929.
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The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2,
should always be written as QE2.
QEII is the actual Queen.
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If you do not have a child,
you will be the first in your direct lineage,
all the way back to beginnings of human history,
to do so (or not, as the case may be!)
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