“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Just gimme the facts it says in the title and that’s exactly what you get.
It’s another interesting fact day at the fasab blog.
Enjoy.
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The word “moose” comes from the native
Algonquian Indian word meaning “twig eater.”
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Before he wrote Jaws,
Peter Benchley was a speechwriter for LBJ.
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In 1728, the philosopher Voltaire got rich by outsmarting the lottery.
When the French government accidentally created a raffle where the prize money
was significantly larger than the cost of all the tickets combined,
Voltaire and his friend formed a syndicate, bought all the tickets, and won.
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It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth.
On average, the Hubble uses the equivalent amount of energy
as 30 household lightbulbs to complete an orbit.
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There are over 100 styles of BluBlocker sunglasses available on the market
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People didn’t always say “hello” when they answered the phone.
When the first regular phone service was established in 1878,
people said “ahoy.”
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One of the Bond girls in the James Bond movie,
“For Your Eyes Only,”
used to be a man
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The word Himalayas means the “home of snow.”
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The Margherita pizza was named for Margherita of Savoy,
Queen consort of Italy from 1878-1900,
during the reign of her husband, King Umberto I.
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Over 175 million cubic yards of earth
was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal
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Hawaii is the most geographically isolated land mass in the world.
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By partially filling saucers with vinegar and
distributing the saucers around a room,
you can eliminate odors
– well, accept for them smell of vinegar perhaps!
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Oddly enough
– or perhaps not, as the case may be –
the very first high heels were made for soldiers in the 1500s
who needed a way to keep their feet snugly tucked
into their stirrups while riding on horseback.
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Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can.
When he died in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
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The famous jewelry store Tiffany & Co.
was established on September 18, 1837 in New York City.
The amount of sales that were made the first day were $4.98
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A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor
because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted
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During WWII, La-Z-Boy manufactured seats for tanks,
torpedo boats, gun turrets, and armored cars.
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It requires 63 feet of wire to make a Slinky toy
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The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923.
It was first erected as “Hollywoodland.”
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Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to
“have a ball after I’m gone.”
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