“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yes, the usual unusual mixture of facts for you today.
You’ll have a job trying to get Saturn into a bathtub, but in the meantime there are a lot of other facts to explore.
Enjoy.
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If you could put Saturn in a bathtub it would float.
(But you will need a very large bathtub.)
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If saliva cannot dissolve something,
you cannot taste it.
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Your brain accounts for about 2% of your mass
but uses up to a quarter of your oxygen and energy
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Chocolate contains phenylethylamine,
a naturally occurring amino-acid
which is believed to have aphrodisiacal effects
and is even said to be able to “cure” hangovers.
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Roger Woodward goes down in history
as the youngest person to go over the
Niagara Falls unprotected and survive.
It was unintentional and happened
after a boat he was in capsized.
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Marc Okrand, the linguistics professor responsible
for coming up with the fictional language of Klingon,
spent 3 years teaching his son when he was little.
His son went on to forget everything.
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At its height in 480BC the first Persian Empire
covered 44% of the world’s population.
This is the largest percentage of any empire in history.
By comparison the British only had 20%
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Life expectancy in the middle ages wasn’t as low as you think.
The average age was brought down
but that was mostly because of a high infant mortality rate.
Most adults lived well into their 60s.
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Animal Kingdom was supposed to have had
a land devoted to mythical creatures,
but it was abandoned at the last minute.
However, no one thought about
changing the Animal Kingdom sign,
which still includes a dragon
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Gorgias of Epirus, a Greek teacher
was born in his dead mother’s coffin.
The pallbearers heard him crying during the burial.
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Heresy comes from a Greek word meaning choice
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JFK was a huge James Bond fan.
He first met the author of the series,
Ian Fleming, at a dinner party in 1960.
They allegedly bounced around ideas
about how to get rid of Fidel Castro.
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The world’s highest road is the Aucanquilcha mining road.
This mining road was once used by trucks
to climb this Chilean volcano to an altitude of over 6,000 meters.
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In ancient Rome, urine was used as mouthwash.
(Now that really is taking the piss!)
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The musical Grease is one of the highest grossing of all time
with receipts Worldwide of $394,955,690.
I think this is the one that you want….
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