Happy Meal Facts!

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

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Welcome to happy meal day at the fasab blog.

So tuck in tso a few interesting facts.

But above all…

Enjoy.

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Every 14.5 hours a McDonald’s

opens somewhere in the world

 

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Almost everything in space is unimaginably big

and the supergiant, as the name suggests, is no exception.

Supergiants are among the most massive and

most luminous stars, more massive and up to a

million times more luminous than the Sun.

 

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In Ancient Egypt servants were covered in honey

to keep flies away from pharaoh

 

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Antarctica holds as much water in its ice

as the entire Atlantic Ocean

 

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In spite of the fact that they

built over 30,000 km of road,

the Incas never developed

or discovered the wheel

 

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2.5% of the American population perished

during the American Civil War

 

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The Hope Diamond is estimated to be worth

$200-250 million and resides at the

Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

It is said to be cursed and supposedly causes

great misfortune and misery to whoever wears it.

One wearer was even said to have been

ripped apart by dogs, and another by a French mob.

 

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Did you know that you can get ice cream in

Bacon, Garlic, Deep Fried Oyster

and Corn on the Cob flavors?

 

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In Denmark all drivers must

check under the car before starting it,

just to see if there is someone underneath

 

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The Constitution of the Confederate States of America

banned the slave trade, and when

the American Civil War started,

Confederate Robert E. Lee owned no slaves,

whereas Union general U.S. Grant did.

 

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Apparently men buy more ties during harder times

to appear as though they’re working.

Tie width used to be a factor due to austerity measures

during past wars but these days economists mainly

just look at the number of ties being bought.

 

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Yellowstone in the USA was the

first national park on Earth.

President Ulysses S Grant declared

it a protected area in 1872.

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Did You Know? Lots More Fabulous Facts Folks!

“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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Did You Know? – Another Round Of Fabulous Facts!

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

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Another random bunch of facts for you today.

I think I prefer the final one the best because of its irony and the fact that it illustrates that people can sometimes delude and convince themselves into believing they saw what the really didn’t.

Anyway, here they are, so choose your own favorite, but whatever you do….

Enjoy.

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The US Constitution contains many

spelling and grammatical errors.

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The term ‘Lunatic’ is derived from the Latin word ‘luna’ meaning ‘moon’.

It originated from the belief that insanity is caused by changes in the moon.

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Thirty-three light years away there is an

exoplanet completely covered in burning ice.

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James Stephen “Steve” Fossett was an American businessman,

and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer

who, in 2002, became the first person to

fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon.

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At its peak the Roman Empire

stretched for 2.51 million square miles,

but it was only the 19th largest empire in history.

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Throughout the 1800s people were buried alive so often

that coffins included mechanisms to allow those people

to ring a bell in the graveyard.

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Homer and Langley Collyer, two compulsive hoarders,

were found buried beneath a collapsed pile of

the things they had stored in their house over the years.

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The last time a cavalry charge was used on the battlefield

was during WWII when a Mongolian cavalry division

charged a German infantry division.

Two thousand Mongolians were killed

and not a single German died.

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In ancient Egypt some servants were covered in honey

to attract flies away from the pharaoh.

(I suppose it’s better than the alternative!)

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June 28, 2014 was the 100 year anniversary of the assassination

of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria,

heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne,

who was killed in Sarajevo along with his wife Duchess Sophie

by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip.

This was the incident that led to the Great War,

also now known as World War I.

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Although several notable people died on the toilet,

one of the most famous is probably Elvis Presley.

Doctors attributed his death to too many prescription drugs.

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When pizza deliveryman Brian Wells

was stopped by the police in the middle of a bank robbery

no one believed his story that he had been forced to do it

by some people he had delivered pizza to.

He kept on pleading with the officers saying that

the necklace he was wearing was a bomb.

Unfortunately for him though,

the bomb squad didn’t show up early enough.

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Almost one-seventh (840) of all the languages on Earth

are spoken in one country…

Papua New Guinea.

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When it was first built,

Disney’s Tomorrowland

was supposed to represent

the far off future year of 1986.

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A famous proponent of healthy eating and organic farming,

Jerome Irving Rodale died of a heart attack

while being interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show in 1971.

Some of his last words were that [he] would

“live to 100, unless [he was] run down by a a sugar-crazy taxi driver”.

Appearing fast asleep during the show, Dick Cavett joked

“Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?”

before discovering that his 72-year-old guest had indeed died.

Many people are convinced they saw this on TV

but the incident was never aired.

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