“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Welcome to another fasab fact day.
Diamonds and chocolate are just two of the delicious facts today.
Enjoy.
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There is a diamond floating in our galaxy
that is bigger than Earth
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Besides Wales, Argentina is the only other country
where Welsh is spoken by a significant minority
thanks to settlers who inhabited Patagonia nearly 200 years ago.
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Your brain was just about as big as it is now when you were born.
That’s one reason that babies have disproportionately large heads.
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Count the capt Jack Sparrows on The Pirates of the Caribbean.
There are usually three.
If you see four, you might actually have seen Johnny Depp
who sometimes hangs out in the ride in full costume for fun
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Malaria comes from the Latin phrase “mal aria” meaning “bad air”
and was used to describe the atmosphere around the swamps of Rome.
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Chocolate was included in WWII soldier rations.
According to army specification, it was designed
to taste just “a little better than a boiled potato”
so soldiers would not eat it too quickly.
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Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated
two years after he had died.
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American playwright Tennessee Williams died in 1983
after he choked on a bottle cap in his hotel room.
Apparently he had been drinking.
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Kaffeklubben Island Belonging to Greenland,
is officially considered to be the northernmost point of land on Earth.
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The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi
is buried in San Marcos, Texas.
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In ancient Egypt, when a ruler would die all of his
servants and animals were buried alive with him.
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In 1985, New Orleans lifeguards decided to throw a pool party
celebrating their first drowning free season ever.
Ironically, after a party filled with hundreds of lifeguards,
local Jerome Moody was found dead at the bottom of the pool.
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The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo
is Harmon Killebrew.
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The word ‘pound’ is abbreviated ‘lb.’
after the constellation ‘libra’
because it means ‘pound’ in Latin, and also ‘scales’.
The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling
comes from the same source:
it is an ‘L’ for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it
to indicate abbreviation.
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The Andy Griffith Show was the first spin-off in TV history.
It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.
If you have time why not enjoy an episode?
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