1.
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Mister Rogers always mentioned out loud that
he was feeding the fish because a blind girl once asked him to do so. She
wanted to know the fish were OK.
2.
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Melbourne gave some of its trees email addresses so that
residents could report problems. Instead, the trees received love letters.
3.
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Staff members of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a
month to exchange incorrectly addressed mail.
4.
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The Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships are held in
Finland. A recent winner said he prepared for the event by "mainly
drinking.”
5.
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It's illegal for supermarkets in France to waste food.
Supermarkets must either compost or donate unsold or nearly expired goods to
charity.
6.
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In 2011, you could rent the whole country of Liechtenstein for
$70,000 a night.
7.
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In order to save lives, Volvo gave away the 1962 patent for
their revolutionary three-point seatbelt for free.
8.
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The Russians showed up 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics in
London because they were using the Julian Calendar instead of the Gregorian
Calendar.
9.
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At the Gettysburg 50th reunion in 1913, two men purchased a
hatchet, walked to the site where their regiments had fought, and buried it.
10.
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Other names considered for "World Wide Web": "The
Information Mesh" and "The Mine of Information."
11.
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Blood donors in Sweden receive a thank you text when their blood
is used.
12.
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"Jay" was slang for "foolish person." So
when a pedestrian ignored street signs, he was a "jaywalker."
13.
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In Norway, "Texas" is slang for "crazy."
14.
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Cape Disappointment in Washington experiences an average of 106
days of fog a year.
15.
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India’s Dahala Khagrabari is the world’s only third-order
enclave.
16.
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It’s a patch of India inside a patch of Bangladesh, which is
inside a patch of India—all of which is surrounded by Bangladesh.
17.
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In 1997, Kleberg County, Texas, designated “Heaven-o” its
official new phone greeting.
18.
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If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll
see is called eigengrau.
19.
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When a California farmer realized he was discarding 400 tons of
carrots a day because they were too bent to be sold, he gave his harvest a
makeover and shaved them down to snackable nubs.
20.
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Today, baby carrots are a $1 billion business.
21.
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Catnip isn’t just for housecats—it affects lions and tigers too.
22.
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If you think your dog's feet smell like corn chips, you're not
alone. The term "Frito Feet" was coined to describe the scent.
23.
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German chocolate cake isn’t German. It’s named for Sam German,
an American baker.
24.
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The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
25.
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The cotton candy machine was invented by a dentist.
26.
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Thirty-five percent of people are born without wisdom teeth.
27.
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As we continue to evolve, scientists believe that fewer and
fewer humans will be born with wisdom teeth...
28.
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...or appendixes...
29.
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...or even little toes!
30.
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In the original stage version of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s
companion isn’t Toto, but a cow named Imogene.
31.
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(It was easier to fit a human into a cow costume than a dog
one.)
32.
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The FBI investigated the song “Louie Louie” because the agency
thought the lyrics were dirty.
33.
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After three months, the FBI abandoned the investigation because
it couldn’t make out the words.
34.
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Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer
piped into his house.
35.
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The world’s shortest scheduled flight lasts 47 seconds. It
covers just over a mile on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
36.
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Wild boars have been observed washing their food before eating.
37.
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During the Eisenhower administration, the White House was wired
to play Muzak.
38.
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In 1967, the Nigerian Civil War ground to a halt for two days
because both sides wanted to watch Pele play in an exhibition soccer match.
39.
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In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.
The price rose to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.
40.
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Winston Churchill's mother was born in Brooklyn.
41.
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The first sales pitch for the Nerf ball was “Nerf: You can’t
hurt babies or old people!”
42.
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Neil Armstrong's astronaut application arrived a week past the
deadline. A friend slipped the tardy form in with the others.
43.
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Buzz Aldrin had to file an expense report for his business
travel to the moon.
44.
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According to a Forbes estimate, Scrooge McDuck is worth $65.4
billion.
45.
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Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo.
46.
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There's a Nikola Tesla statue in Palo Alto that provides free
Wi-Fi.
47.
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In oil-rich Azerbaijan, there are spas that offer 10-minute
baths in warm crude oil.
48.
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The Malta set from Robert Altman's 'Popeye' is now a family
resort known as Popeye Village.
49.
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A 3 Musketeers originally included three
smaller bars: one vanilla, one chocolate, and one strawberry.
And #50? .
There
were only 49 facts listed!!
(mentalfloss.com)
Here are a few more I just found at factslides.com:
Here are a few more I just found at factslides.com:
- Whales are so big, they can take up to 100 years of creatures consuming them to decompose.
- The world's most expensive iPhone 5 was worth US$15 million. It was made of 135 grams of 24-carat gold and the chassis was inlaid with 600 white diamonds.
- Ellen DeGeneres' famous Oscar selfie was retweeted 3.3 million times.
- In 2002, Microsoft had to rename the "Critical Update Notification Tool" in order to avoid the unfortunate acronym, "CUNT".
- Nobel prize winners in science are 22 times likelier than their peers to have performed as dancers, actors, or magicians.
- Steve Jobs was infamous for parking his Mercedes in handicap parking spots. He also didn't use license plates.
- Osama Bin Laden was scammed out of US$1.5 million while trying to buy weapons-grade uranium.
Sorry if I was rambling today; I got lost in thought & it's unfamiliar territory----fishducky
