“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yes indeed, here are the facts. Another random selection for your enjoyment.
I hope you find them interesting, maybe even educational.
And, of course, you’ll find out a little later why your whole childhood was a lie.
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The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf
are one in sixty-seven million, 1:67,000,000.
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Another word for hiccups is ‘singultus’.
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require
a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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The only poisonous birds in the world are the three species of Pitohui.
The Hooded Pitohui from Papua New Guinea is the most deadly out of the three
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In 1955, only 330 Volkswagen Beetle’s were sold
at a price of $1800 each in the United States.
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The Chihuahua was named after
the Mexican state where they were discovered
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There are more than 640 muscles in the human body
(and as you get older they all start to hurt!)
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The odds of having quadruplets are 1 in 729,000
(for men the odds are much higher!)
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The destruction of the Berlin Wall began when private citizens
started to demolish entire sections of the Wall without interference
from government officials on November 9, 1989
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France is known as the perfume capital of the world
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Since its introduction in February 1935,
more than two hundred million Monopoly board games
have been sold worldwide
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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL
with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
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When former Texas Governor James Hogg was on his deathbed
he made a special request that a pecan tree
be planted at the head of his grave instead of a tombstone.
The governor passed away on March 2, 1906,
which is Texas Independence Day.
The pecan tree is now the state tree of Texas
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In 1477, the first diamond engagement ring was given to
Mary of Burgundy by Archduke Maximillian of Austria
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The smallest frog is the “Brazilian baby frog”,
which is smaller than a dime
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India used to be the richest country in the world
until the British invasion in the early 17th Century
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium,
died of radiation poisoning
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The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered “fool’s gold”
because it looks very similar to gold.
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In 1759, St. James’s Gate Brewery (where they brew Guinness)
was leased for to Arthur Guinness for 9,000 years for 45 pounds per year.
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A Roadrunner’s top speed is 20 mph
while coyotes can reach speeds of up to 43 mph
– so let’s face it folks, your whole childhood was a lie!
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