“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Looks like another day of random facts.
Hope you find something that you like.
Enjoy.
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A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
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White chocolate technically isn’t chocolate.
It contains no cocoa solids or cocoa liquor.
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The science of kissing itself is called philematology.
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Elephants aren’t afraid of mice
but they are afraid of bees
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The Mauryan Empire was founded by
Chandragupta Maurya in 322 B.C and was
the largest empire ever on the Indian subcontinent.
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In 2007, While attending a dart-throwing convention
at a Minneapolis hotel, Josh Hanson (heavily intoxicated)
fell out of a window, plummeting 160 feet and
slamming into the ledge of the first floor.
He sustained a broken leg, two collapsed lungs and
a few bruises but lived to play darts again.
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Humans have more brain cells at the age of two
than at any other point in their lives
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Images for picture stamps in the United States
are commissioned by the
United States Postal Service Department of Philatelic Fulfillment.
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It takes a lobster approximately
seven years to grow to be one pound.
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Bobby Leach was one of the greatest dare devils to ever live.
He would regularly perform death defying stunts
and was only the second person in history
to go over the side of the Niagara Falls in a barrel.
One day, however, while walking down
a quiet street in New Zealand,
Leach slipped on an orange peel, broke his leg,
and died due to complications that he developed afterwards.
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The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding.
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At latitude 60 degrees south you can
sail all the way around the world.
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King Goujian of Yue placed a row of
convicted criminals at the front of his army.
Before the battle they would all cut off their own heads
to show the other army how crazy King Goujian’s army was.
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The “Calabash” pipe,
most often associated with Sherlock Holmes,
was not used by him until William Gillette (an American)
portrayed Holmes onstage.
Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in
his mouth while he spoke his lines.
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In 2006, American Film Institute
named Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as one of the best American musical films ever made.
Yeeeehaaaaaa!!!
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