“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Welcome to another selection of fasab’s facts for fun.
A more than random list of unusual facts that may come in handy some day. I wouldn’t count on it, but you never know. It has happened believe it or not!
So read on and enjoy.
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The only U.S. president to have been the head of a union
was Ronald Reagan,
a former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Just proving that not everybody is all bad,
“Pretty Boy” Floyd, one of America’s most notorious bank robbers,
was known for destroying mortgage papers,
consequently freeing hundreds of people from property debt.
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A man in China has kept himself alive with
a homemade dialysis machine for 13 years.
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Divorce is legal in every nation in the world
except in the Philippines and in Vatican City.
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In 1755 Benjamin Franklin organized the first
regular monthly mail packet service
between Falmouth, England, and New York,
and opened the first official post office in Canada
(in Halifax, Nova Scotia), to link Halifax with
the Atlantic colonies and the packet service to England.
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About half the geysers on Earth
are located in Yellowstone National Park.
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Your brain makes imaginary monsters when you stare in a mirror.
(Either that or you don’t look as good as you thought!)
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While most of it lies in Africa,
a small part of Egypt is located in Asia, as well.
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The White House has a variety of recreational facilities
available to its residents, including a tennis court, a jogging track,
swimming pool, movie theater, billiard room, and a bowling lane.
Click here to take an interactive tour
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The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
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A skunk’s smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
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The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wife died
when a dropped match ignited her enormous hoop skirt.
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Alabama was the first state to
recognize Christmas as an official holiday.
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If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean,
the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
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The longest freshwater shoreline in the world
is located in the state of Michigan.
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Carbon monoxide is deadly.
It can kill a person in less than 15 minutes
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In 1876, the first microphone was invented by Emile Berliner.
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When Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnast
to score a perfect 10, the scoreboard wasn’t prepared.
Her score was reported as “1.00.”
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The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek
came from the accent that his mother would use
when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child.
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Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” was written by Shel Silverstein.
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