“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Indeed, what better way to end the month of September than with another random selection of facts.
I’m sure there are at least a few things in this lot that you didn’t know.
Enjoy.
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There are more than 100,000 chemical reactions
happening in your brain every second.
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The first machine-made chocolate was
produced in Barcelona, Spain, in 1780.
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A blue whale´s tongue alone
can weigh as much as a single adult elephant
which gives you an indication of the size of the former.
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About 275 million new stars are born everyday.
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Ohio lawyer Clement Vallandigham
managed to shoot himself in a court room in 1871
while demonstrating to a jury how his client’s
alleged murder victim had actually shot himself.
Apparently no one checked the gun.
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The Chinese language (Mandarin/Cantonese)
has about 50,000 characters.
To read a newspaper you would
need to know about 2,000 of them.
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Gum is not sold in any Disney Park.
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The word ‘Lukewarm’ is actually a redundancy.
‘Luke’ meant ‘warm’ in Middle English
so ‘lukewarm’ technically would mean ‘warm warm’.
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The most remote island in the world
is the uninhabited Bouvet Island
which lies somewhere between
Antarctica and Tristan de Cunha.
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Did you know that dolphins are so smart that,
within a few weeks of captivity,
they can train people to stand on the
very edge of the pool and throw them fish?
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‘Linn’s Stamp News’ is the world’s largest
weekly newspaper for stamp collectors.
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The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal,
right next to your temple, is called a ‘tragus’.
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The United States has never lost a war
in which mules were used.
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Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant
of William Clark of Lewis and Clark.
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Running from 1972 through 1983, M*A*S*H*
was one of the most successful shows on television ever.
It won 8 Golden Globe awards,
14 Primetime Emmy awards,
the 1976 Peabody award
and was the People’s Choice winner
for Favorite TV Comedy five times.
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