“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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This is a bit Donald Rumsfeld, but it is certainly true that the more of these facts I see, the more I know I don’t know, except I would know if I could remember them all.
But enough of that.
Let’s get on with today’s lot.
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The official state vegetable of Oklahoma
is the watermelon.
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Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.
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The word ‘Hazard’ comes from the Arabic ‘al zahr’ which means ‘the dice’.
The term came to be associated with dice during the Crusades
and eventually took on a negative connotation because
games of dice were associated with gambling.
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If you eat a teaspoon of sugar after eating something spicy,
it will completely neutralize the heat.
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When the oldest person on Earth was born,
there was a completely different set of people on the planet.
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The last veteran of the American Civil War died in 1956,
long enough to see the atomic bomb dropped in Japan.
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A “butt load” is an actual unit of measurement,
equivalent to 126 gallons.
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The word ‘posh’, which denotes luxurious rooms or accommodations,
originated when ticket agents in England
marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient.
Since there was no air conditioning in those days,
it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship
as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area.
Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra
to get cabins on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia,
and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe.
Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for
Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.
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Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag,
it looks like two pennants glued one on top of the other.
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Dr Seuss wrote “Green Eggs And Ham”
to win a bet against his publisher
who thought that Seuss could not complete
a book using only 50 words.
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Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to lizards.
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Not only was James Garfield ambidextrous,
he could write Latin with one hand
and Greek with the other at the same time.
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Shakespeare and Pocahontas
were alive at the same time.
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Kiribati is the first country in the world
that will be entirely lost due to rising sea levels.
They are already planning the complete and
permanent evacuation of the population.
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Duddley Do Right’s Horses name was “Horse.”
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