“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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It’s another “Did You Know” day on the fasab blog.
More random facts to get your head around.
Enjoy.
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The first Dunkin Donuts and the first Howard Johnson’s
were both in Quincy, Massachusetts.
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The Pennsylvania Dutch are not really Dutch.
They are a people of German ancestry living in
southeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in Lancaster County.
“German” in German is “Deutsch.”
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The Gateway Arch in St. Louis
is as wide at its base as it is tall (630 feet).
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Ohio State offers a course called “Sports for the Spectator.”
Students are taught how to be
“an informed and appreciative sports spectator.”
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Telephone cards first took off in Hawaii,
since long-distance charges from the far-flung state
were higher than anywhere else in the country.
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What day were you born on?
Apparently Tuesday is the most popular day of the week for giving birth,
a fact that has nothing to do with Nature
and everything to do with hospital staffing;
elective C-sections and induced labors
are often scheduled during traditional working hours.
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The majority of the text in the Monroe Doctrine
was actually penned by John Quincy Adams.
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Despite its reputation as a cosmonaut staple,
freeze-dried ice cream only made one mission to space.
In 1968, it provided instant sugar rushes to the astronauts of Apollo 7.
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In car design circles, a hood ornament is properly called a “mascot.”
The first American automobile to sport a mascot was the 1912 Cadillac.
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Albert Einstein never received a Nobel Prize
for his theory of relativity.
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On November 18th, 1913, pilot Lincoln Beachey was the
first person to make a complete loop-de-loop in an airplane.
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The first man to appear on the cover of Playboy
was the actor Peter Sellers.
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West Virginia is no longer the coal-mining capital of the U.S.,
nine of the ten top-producing coal mines are currently located in Wyoming.
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The popular game Bingo was originally called “Beano”
because players used beans to cover the numbered squares.
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Cruise control and automatic transmissions were invented
by a blind engineer named Ralph Teetor.
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Modern scholars believe that Jericho,
settled around 10,000 years ago,
was the first walled city in the world.
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The human bone most often broken is the clavicle (collar bone).
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Swearing to tell
“the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”
dates back to English Common Law.
Interestingly enough, there were no penalties for perjury until the 1600s;
prior to that time, it was believed that the fear of God’s wrath
was enough to keep witnesses honest.
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According to doctors, humans have an average
of 14 episodes of flatulence per day.
(I always knew I was above average!)
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The Harlem Globetotters were originally a Chicago based team (1927).
They did not play a game in Harlem until the 1960s.
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