“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Welcome to another fact day and a list of very random things that certainly will increase your knowledge base, if you can remember them.
The only way to find out is to read on.
Enjoy.
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The first explorers who discovered the West Indies
thought it was Southeast Asia.
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At Disney there used to be paint brushes
hidden on Tom Sawyer island
and if you found one,
you could present it to the barge driver and
you and your party would get golden Fast Passes.
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If the average male never shaved,
his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
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Sorry to bust a much believed myth,
but sugar does not actually make you hyper,
the whole idea of a “sugar rush” is not real,
in fact, according to recent science from Yale University
it’s all just a placebo effect.
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Cracking your knuckles won’t lead to arthritis
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The Chernobyl disaster region has become
one of the world’s most unique wildlife sanctuaries
with thriving populations of wolves, deer,
beavers, eagles, and other animals.
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Pamphlet comes from the title of a Latin love poem called Pamphilus
that was supposedly passed from person to person
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A cubic inch of bone is about
four times as strong as concrete.
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The 8 lane, 26 mile long Qingdao Bridge in China
cost 14.8 billion yuan to build
but gets almost no traffic.
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Napoleon was actually taller than the average Frenchman
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Not only is Reno, Nevada, west of Los Angeles,
but so are six other state capitals.
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William McKinley almost always wore
a red carnation on his lapel as a good luck charm.
While greeting a line of people in 1901,
he gave the flower to a little girl.
Seconds later, he was shot by an assassin,
and died eight days later.
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Buck, the slang term for an American dollar
comes from the fact that on the American frontier
deerskins were used as units of commerce.
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The coldest inhabited place on earth is Oymyakon, Russia,
where sometimes the temperature drops
below freezing in mid September and stays there until May.
The average temperature in January is -46 °C.
The village has a population of less than 500 people.
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Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.
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