“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Another selection of random facts including candle clocks and feral cats, and what could be more random than that?
So here we go.
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Russia sold Alaska to the US for 2 cents an acre
because they thought it was a useless tundra.
(Big mistake comrades!)
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The Chernobyl disaster released
at least 100 times more radiation
than the atom bombs dropped
on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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Up to 200 feral cats live in Disneyland
and are tolerated because they eradicate
mice and rats on the property.
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The largest cell in the human body is the female egg,
and the smallest is the male sperm.
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There are entire cities all over China
with no people living in them!
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In Germany there are fake bus stops outside many nursing homes
to prevent confused senior citizens from wandering off.
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Twelve book publishers rejected Harry Potter,
a very shrewd move on their part since
the sales of the series is now approaching half a billion!
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Before clocks as we now know them,
there were candle clocks that burned a set amount of hours.
If you wanted an alarm or reminder,
you pushed a nail into the candle at the desired height/time length
and when it melted the nail would fall out and the
noise of it hitting the metal holder would alert you.
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Loophole (or murder hole)
originally referred to the slits in castle walls
that archers would shoot their arrows through.
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NASA has lost over 700 boxes of magnetic data tapes
recorded throughout the Apollo program
including original footage of the moon landing.
They ‘think’ some of them may have
‘accidentally been taped over’.
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Harvard University was founded
before calculus was derived.
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Apparently it is possible
to sail a boat from Pakistan to Russia
if you sail in a completely straight line.
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There are some trees alive today that
were alive before the pyramids were built.
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Chester A. Arthur was known for his impeccable attire,
earning him the nickname “Elegant Arthur.”
On his last day in office,
four women offered him their hands in marriage.
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Regarded as his finest song,
David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ purports to tell in only five minutes
a story that can easily serve as the plot to a two-hour sci-fi film.
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