“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Facts don’t more random than these selections.
A little something for everyone seems to be the goal, so I hope you find at least one fact in here of interest.
Enjoy.
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People say “bless you” when you sneeze
because your heart stops for a millisecond.
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US gold coins used to say
“In Gold We Trust”.
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Kuwait is about 60% male
(highest in the world).
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Latvia is about 54% female
(highest in the world).
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The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
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Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
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The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice,
but the volume of fresh water compared to
the volume of the earth is a lot smaller.
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For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
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Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.
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John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed
by public hanging for the murder of a child
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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
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Present population of 7 billion plus people of the world
is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
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A man named Charles Osborne
had the hiccups for 69 years!
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A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
(That takes some lickin’)
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The average person laughs 10 times a day!
(But obviously readers of the Fasab blog are well above average!)
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Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by
Marilyn Monroe in the film ‘Some Like It Hot’.
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More than 1,000 different languages
are spoken on the continent of Africa.
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The White House has 132 rooms and
a total floor area of around 55,000 ft²
(5,100 square metres).
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Buckingham Palace in England has 775 rooms and
the total floor area of the Palace, from basement to roof,
covers over 828,000 square feet (77,000 square metres).
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