“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Another fact filled post for you.
The usual random mixture, so pick out the ones you like best.
Enjoy.
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Until 2001 Disney required that all cast members
playing costumed park characters
share communal underwear.
Talk about getting into your pants!
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Muscle comes from a Latin root meaning ‘little mouse’.
Apparently people used to think muscles
looked like little mice under their skin.
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Scotland is as far north as Alaska.
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NASA lost a Mars orbiter because part of the team
used metric units and the other half used English.
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The Chernobyl disaster remains the only level 7 incident
on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES)
making it the biggest man-made disaster of all time.
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The US government placed some beer
next to an atomic bomb blast
to determine if it was still drinkable.
The good news is that in the event of a
nuclear war beer is safe to drink.
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A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball
(a bit bigger than a cricket ball).
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Calvin Coolidge would occasionally press all the buttons in the Oval Office,
sending bells ringing throughout the White House
— and then hide to watch his staff run in.
Apparently he just wanted to see who was working.
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Men with hairless chests are more likely to
get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
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A fact in honor of the World Cup currently underway in Brazil.
The word Soccer actually originated in the United Kingdom.
Association Football was shortened to “socca”
(derived from the middle of the word association).
This turned into the word “soccer”
that is still used in the US, Canada, and Australia.
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The day of his assassination,
Martin Luther King Jr.
got in a pillow fight in his hotel room.
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Cows have best friends and they tend
to spend most of their time together.
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The Dutch discovered Australia 100 years before the British
but decided to ignore it because they thought it was a useless desert.
Crikey!
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There is a ‘zip bomb’ called 42.zip
that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped,
but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
Be careful clicking on those email attachments!
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4’33? (pronounced “Four minutes, thirty-three seconds”
or just “Four thirty-three”) is a three-movement composition
by American experimental composer John Cage
for any instrument or combination of instruments,
and the score instructs the performer(s) not to play their instrument(s)
during the entire duration of the piece throughout the three movements.
Here it is…… No it’s not. What would be the point of that???
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