“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Another ‘Did You Know’ day on the fasab blog.
More fascinating facts to ponder over.
Enjoy.
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The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.
A collector of broken laser pointers bought it for $14.83.
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The first recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross award
(for heroism or achievement in aerial combat)
was Charles Lindbergh.
He achieved this feat a year before his famous transatlantic flight.
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The Gideons, who went on to place millions of Bibles
in hotels, prisons, hospitals and military bases,
first did so at the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Montana, in 1908.
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The poinsettia’s red petals are actually leaves.
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Superman’s alter-ego, Clark Kent, originally worked
as a reporter for the Daily Star.
The Star changed its name to
the more familiar Daily Planet in 1940.
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Washington State was supposed to be named “Columbia”
but the idea was scrapped because it was thought
it would be too easily confused with “Columbia City”
(today commonly referred to as Washington, D.C.).
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Neuticles are synthetic testicles for neutered pets.
The tagline: “It’s like nothing ever changed.”
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The Flintstones was sponsored by a cigarette company
during the show’s first two seasons.
The show was intended for adults, not kids,
so few complained about the commercials that depicted
the stone-age characters puffing away on Winstons.
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The hyoid bone is the only bone in the human body
not connected to another bone.
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In 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station.
Three successive crews lived and worked there for more than 171 days.
Knowing a call to the fire department would accomplish precious
little from outer space, NASA and Honeywell International, Inc., developed
an alarm system that would alert the station’s crew to smoke or fire.
The smoke detector used on the space station is the same kind
that is now found in 90 percent of U.S. homes.
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Twitter’s bird logo is named Larry,
for Larry Bird.
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The University of Minnesota
is older than the state of Minnesota.
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While Stephen King sets many of his stories in Maine,
the state actually has the lowest violent-crime rate in the U.S.
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Printing the phrase “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency was a mandate
handed down by Abraham Lincoln’s Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase.
During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt attempted to remove the slogan
because he, as a devout Christian, felt that putting God on money was a sacrilege.
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Syd Barrett got the name Pink Floyd from two American blues musicians,
Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
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