“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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No dirty facts here. That’s someone else’s job.
Just good clean fun with another selection from the fabulous fasab fact file.
Enjoy.
..Oh, and spare a thought for poor Betty Stobbs who for one split second thought she had made it.
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Dirty Harry’s badge number is 2211.
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Frisian, a language native to the Netherlands,
is considered the easiest foreign language
for English speakers to learn
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The amount the U.S. military spends annually
on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.
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The Milky Way has four spiral arms, not two.
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The main ingredient for chocolate are technically cacao beans,
but they are known throughout the cocoa industry as cocoa beans
because of a misspelling.
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Cacao has been around for millions of years and
is probably one of the oldest of nature’s foods.
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It has been calculated that in the last 3,000 years
there have only been 240 years of peace in the world
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During the An Lushan rebellion in China in the mid 700s
nearly 40 million people died.
This was 1/6 of the world’s population.
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Your brain is the fattest organ in your body at around 60%
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Curfew comes from a combination of two French words
– “couvrir” and “feu”. Literally this means to “cover fire”.
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In 1999, Betty Stobbs, 67, of Durham, England,
took a bale of hay to feed her flock of sheep
on the back of her motorcycle.
Her hungry sheep, however, charged her bike and
knocked her into a deep ravine.
She survived the fall but was killed
when her bike landed on top of her.
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Andrew Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels,
most of which were fought to defend the honor of his wife.
Not surprisingly he was shot multiple times during his life.
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Alexander the Great is famous for a spying technique still used today.
He had all his soldiers write home to their families
and then intercepted the letters.
Whoever didn’t have something nice to say was executed.
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If you are referred to as a “treasured guest”
in Disney don’t get carried away.
That means you’re an asshole and
workers are being warned about you
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The voices of Yoda and Miss Piggy
were done by the same person.
His name is Frank Oz.
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