“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yes, time for some more facts to feature here at the fasab blob.
Hope you find something interesting in this selection.
Enjoy.
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Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man
all have seven neck vertebra.
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There have been many legends about the Northern Lights.
Some North American Inuit tribes call the aurora „aqsarniit“
(meaning “football players”) thinking it is the spirits of the dead
playing football with a head of a walrus.
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The feeling you get when something is so cute
you can’t help but want to squeeze it
is called “cute aggression”.
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The Ivory Coast is by far the world’s leading producer of cocoa beans.
About 37 percent of all the cocoa beans in the world come from here.
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On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass,
the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo
called a heilgenschein (German for halo.)
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Your brain continues to develop until your late 40s.
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According to the Guinness Book of World Records,
the largest sausage was made by J.J. Tranfield on behalf of
Asda Stores Plc, at Sheffield, United Kingdom in October 2000.
With a length of 36.75 miles (59.143 kilometers),
it’s almost the width of Rhode Island.
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The McKinley Building on the American University campus
has been used for the development of several hazardous products,
such as Mustard Gas and preliminary work on the Manhattan Project.
The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual architecture.
If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building,
the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material.
The building now houses the Physics Department.
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There is a language in Botswana that
consists of 5 primary click sounds
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Window washer Chris Saggers was working on the 22nd floor of the
Salford Tower Blocks in Britain when he fell off of his scaffold,
plunging down 220 feet, and landing on top of a car.
Miraculously, after the fall, he simply stood up and told the on lookers “I’m fine”.
A medical exam revealed that Saggers’ only injury was a broken elbow.
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The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for
running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.
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Born in 1921 in Connecticut, Haroutune Krikor Daghlian, Jr was
an Armenian American physicist who worked for the Manhattan Project
(research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs).
He accidentally irradiated himself in August, 1945, during a critical mass
experiment at the remote Omega Site facility in New Mexico.
He died just 25 days later.
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All porcupines float in water.
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Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan
carries the designation M-1, named so
because it was the first paved road anywhere.
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The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati
wore a band-aid in every episode.
Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
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