“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yes, today is your chance to find out the latest crop of facts on the fasab blog.
As random as ever, I hope there will be at least a few of interest.
Enjoy.
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There is a $5 fine for anyone on staff at the
real Top Gun school who quotes the movie.
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If you were to remove all of the empty space from the
atoms that make up every human on earth,
the entire world population could fit into an apple.
(Core blimey!)
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Highest human settlement, the mining town of
La Rinconada Found in Peru,
is in the highest hospitable regions of the world.
Any higher and human’s would not be able to adapt.
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A New Orleans man hired a pirate to rescue
Napoleon from his prison on St. Helena.
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Arabic numerals (the ones used in English)
were not invented by the Arabs at all
– they were actually invented by Indian mathematicians.
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Sean Connery was offered up to 15% of
the Lord Of The Rings worldwide receipts to play Gandalf,
but he declined because he ‘didn’t understand the script’.
The decision cost him $400 million!
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There are around 30 million accounts on Facebook
of people who have already died.
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In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money
—the prizes were live babies.
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The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels
is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.
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The Statue of Liberty’s tablet is two feet thick.
(That one’s hard to swallow!)
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Mauna Kea, the volcano on Hawaii’s big island
is over twice as tall as Mount Everest
if measured from its base on the sea floor to its peak.
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The chief translator for the European Parliament
is fluent in 32 languages.
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At the start of World War I, the US Airforce
(then a component of the US army)
had only 18 pilots and 5 – 12 airplanes.
Nowadays they have a lot!
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Located in Canada, Mount Thor has a vertical drop of 1,250 meters
and despite its extremely remote location in the frozen tundra of
Canada’s northern provinces, it is a popular rock climbing destination.
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Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
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