“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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In truth nothing much to do with August, except that’s the months we are now in and you have to call these posts something.
But don’t let that deter you from finding out a few more interesting facts.
Here they are.
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You have over 100,000 km of blood vessels in your brain.
That’s enough to wrap around the world 4 times.
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Poinsettias are not lethal.
If your pet is silly enough to eat one,
it may upset its stomach but it won’t kill anything.
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Allan Pinkerton,
famous for creating the Pinkerton detective agency
died of an infection after biting his tongue
when he slipped on a sidewalk.
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Your ears secrete more earwax when
you are afraid than when you aren’t.
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Chewing gum doesn’t take 7 years to digest.
It actually can’t be digested at all
and will pass right through you as is.
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It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years
to travel from the core of the sun to the surface.
Then it takes just 8 minutes
from the sun’s surface to your eyes.
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The radiation leak from the Chenobyl nuclear reactor accident
caused the nearby forest to turn a bright ginger color,
thus the forest was named the “Red Forest”.
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The Tinkerbelle that flies across the sky during the
Disney fireworks show is sometimes a man.
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According to researchers,
who have not been there and don’t know what they are talking about,
the center of our galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum.
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According to astronauts,
who have been there and do know what they are talking about,
space smells like seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes.
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On Sept. 2, 1944, George H W Bush was flying over Japan
when his aircraft was shot down in the Pacific.
Bush and another crewman were able to bail out,
but the other man’s parachute malfunctioned,
and he went down with the plane.
Bush was eventually rescued by a
submarine off the coast of Chichi-jima.
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There are roughly 7,000 languages
estimated to still be spoken on Earth.
About 2,400 of them are in danger of going extinct.
In fact, one goes extinct every 14 days.
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War comes from a Germanic root
that meant “to confuse”
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For a long time people speculated over the identity
of the secret informant behind the Watergate Scandal,
codenamed “Deep Throat”.
Recently he was revealed to be
former FBI associate director Mark Felt.
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Michael Holmes, the youngest man
to have ever received a skydiving instructor certification,
saw his young career almost come to an end
when on December 2006 a skydive jump went horribly wrong.
Due to faulty ropes, Holmes’ main and reserve parachutes
failed to deploy sending him spiraling out of control
towards certain death.
However, thanks to a blackberry bush,
Holmes was able to survive the fall
with only a punctured lung and a shattered ankle.
This horrifying experience was all captured on camera.
Here it is….
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