“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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I don’t know what it is about the letter ‘F’ but it seems to lend itself better to alliteration than any of the others – if your blog is called Fasab, that is 🙂
Anyhow, here we go with another selection of those fabulously fascinating facts.
Enjoy.
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To manufacture a new car approximately 148,000 liters of water is needed.
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In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball
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The study of twins is known as gemellology
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Dalmatian puppies do not have any spots on them when they are born.
They actually develop them as they get older
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At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,038 miles per hour
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In World War II, the German submarine U-1206 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet
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As a defense mechanism, the North American Opossum closes its eyes and becomes totally limp.
Basically it plays dead, hence the term ‘playing possum’.
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Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year.
These diapers can takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose
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Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom
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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.
These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
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Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city.
Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia.
Not one human being was hurt either time
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When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper
they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment
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Ian Fleming named his character “James Bond” after real-life ornithologist and author
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A Canadian, Troy Hurtubise, spent $100,000 and almost went bankrupt
building a RoboCop style suit so that he could withstand a bear attack
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The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head
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In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt.
The underwire located in their bras acted as a electrical conductors,
and when the lightning bolt hit the bra they left burn marks on their chest
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Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
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Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make
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The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds.
We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall
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Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher.
Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water
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