“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Indeed, it’s time for another factoid feast.
I would say that this is an unusual selection, but the truth is they are usually unusual, if you see what I mean.
I try to make the whole thing as random as possible so there is at least one or two things that you find interesting.
So here goes this week’s offering.
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Many Japanese golfers carry “hole-in-one” insurance,
because it is traditional in Japan to share one’s good luck
by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an “ace.”
The price for what the Japanese term an “albatross”
can often reach $10,000.
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Those sunbeams that you see shining down
through the clouds are called ‘crespucular rays’.
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A-1 Steak Sauce contains
both orange peel and raisins.
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The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ symbolizes
‘two women living under one roof’.
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Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of
their unwanted people without killing them
use to burn their houses down
– hence the expression “to get fired.”
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The naval rank of “Admiral” is derived from
the Arabic phrase “amir al bahr”,
which means “lord of the sea”.
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Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips
than the entire country of Holland.
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Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H)
was the only member of the cast who
actually served as a soldier in the Korean war.
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Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama
has the world’s largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath),
and the largest stalagmite forest in the World.
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The word ‘pixel’ is a contraction of
either ‘picture cell’ or ‘picture element.’
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Back in the mid to late 80’s, an IBM compatible computer
wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible
unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
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If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico
during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb),
your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
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Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
(I can’t say I’m surprised he changed a crappy name like that.)
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The word “samba” means “to rub navels together.”
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