“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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What a collection of facts indeed and not one of them about Cinco de Mayo. How I resisted that I’, not sure. Maybe next year???
But today it’s facts that somebody knows and facts that nobody knows.
But at least after you read today’s post you will know the facts that nobody knows, except that then somebody will know them.
Enough of that, here they are.
Enjoy.
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Nobody knows who owns the patent
for fire hydrants because the patent office
in which the records were being held burned down.
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You could fit all the platinum every mined
into an average size home.
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During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965,
Ed White became the first American
to conduct a spacewalk.
The EVA started over the Pacific Ocean
near Hawaii and lasted 23 minutes,
ending over the Gulf of Mexico.
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Colombia is estimated to be the
second largest economy in South America,
right behind Brazil.
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When the Persians beheaded the Mongolian envoy,
Genghis Khan retaliated by killing nearly 90% of their population.
According to some estimates, Iran’s population didn’t
reach its pre-Mongol levels until the mid-1900s.
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Kim Il-Sung, the founder of North Korea,
was born on the same day that the Titanic sank.
It wasn’t really a great day, was it?
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The first man to die working on the Hoover Dam
was killed on December 20 1922.
He was J G Tierney.
The last man to die working on the Hoover Dam
was killed on December 20 1935.
He was J G Tierney’s son.
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Italians don’t usually drink
cappuccino after 11 AM.
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The term ‘Zero tolerance’ was first used
by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
in referring to their policy on pesticides
in food items (e.g. no mercury in milk).
It was later attributed to the famous
War on Drugs by strictly applying
the law in problem areas.
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The Bada Bing strip club location used throughout
the hit TV series ‘The Sopranos’
is actually a go-go bar in Lodi, NJ, called Satin Dolls.
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Switzerland has some of the most
liberal gun laws of any country,
with 2.3 to 4.5 million guns in
a population of 8 million.
It also has one of the lowest
crime rates in the world.
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The budget for the two “The Hobbit” movies
is almost twice the budget of
the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
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