“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yes, the fact file is open again.
Another random selection covering science, music, history, archaeology, nature and even brain surgery!
Enjoy.
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Women blink twice as much as men.
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Picking up baby birds and returning them to their nests
will not cause their mothers to reject them.
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It takes food approximately seven seconds
to get from your mouth to your stomach.
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The brain has no pain receptors so it doesn’t feel anything.
This is why doctors are able to perform open brain surgery
on patients that are still awake.
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But brain surgery is not something new.
In the past some cultures practiced “trepanation”,
or the act of drilling holes in the brain
to alleviate pain and cure sickness.
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More than 5 million people live in areas
that are considered to be “contaminated”
with radioactive material from the Chernobyl disaster.
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The body of the last English King to die in battle, Richard III,
was finally found buried under a Leicester car park
in what was one of the most astonishing
archaeological discoveries of the last few decades.
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The Chinese government
attempted to crack down on gift giving
by banning certain luxury commercials.
The economy immediately started falling.
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Disney Park employees are required to point
with either the whole hand or using two fingers.
This is because some cultures see pointing
with one finger as disrespectful
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Dropping a penny from the top of the
Empire State Building would not kill someone
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Lemur comes from a Latin word that means
“spirit of the dead”.
The person that named them cited their
nocturnal nature as a source of influence.
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For many years scientists couldn’t figure out
how the Earth’s solid inner core spins one way
and the liquid outer core spins the other.
Scientists at Leeds University recently found
that the answer lies in a simple “equal and opposite” reaction
based around Earth’s magnetic fields.
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The word “Addict” comes from ancient Rome
when soldiers were awarded slaves known as “addicts”,
which is the Latin word for slave.
It eventually came to refer to a person
who was a slave to anyone or anything.
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Air Force One is not the name of a specific plane,
but the name of any plane carrying the president.
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The Beatles still hold the record for the
most number-one singles in the Billboard Charts.
They had twenty in all
and their biggest seller was “Hey Jude”.
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