Amazing Facts About Anything Thread

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Amazing Facts Thread

Feel free to post your amazing facts here! :)

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Wettest place on Earth:

Mawsynram, located in the Meghalaya State in India, is the wettest place in the world. It receives an annual rainfall of 11,871 millimeters.


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The Aerosol Spray Can
The cheese slicer
Nitrogen fertilizer
TheOoutboard engine
The franking machine
The gas turbine
Contrast dye
Automatic machine for recirculation of bottles
The modern handgranade

and

The Onepiece :shifty:

Are all Norwegian inventions :)

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North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can’t buy Coca-Cola.

Why?
Cuba: Coca-Cola opened one of its first bottling plants in Cuba in 1906, but pulled production in 1962 because of a trade embargo, not long after Fidel Castro took over the country.

North Korea: Since 1950, North Koreans haven’t been able to buy Coke either, thanks to the Korean War breaking out that same year.

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A cockroach can live a few weeks without its head. It will eventually die of hunger.

Cockroaches are infamous for their tenacity, and are often cited as the most likely survivors of a nuclear war. Some even claim that they can live without their heads. It turns out that these armchair exterminators (and their professional brethren) are right. Headless roaches are capable of living for weeks. After the cockroach loses its head, very often their necks would seal off just by clotting, There's no uncontrolled bleeding. On the other hand, you cut a humans head off, the human will die of blood loss.

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On many zippers, you find the letters YKK.

Those letters stand for "Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha" which, from Japanese, roughly translates to "Yoshida Company Limited." It's a zipper manufacturer named after Tadao Yoshida, who founded it in 1934. By one estimate, the company makes half the zippers on Earth, which is more than 7 billion zippers each year.

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Bananas have a curved shape because they reach for the sunlight when they grow.

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^^ Not to mention that banana trees cannot be grown in a straight line, because banana trees actually move! :O

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Guinness estimates that 93,000 liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone. lol

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Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient times

In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors used spider webs to make bandages for their patients. Spider webs supposedly have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent infection. It's also said that spider webs are rich in vitamin K, which helps promote clotting. So, next time you're out of Band-Aids, just head to your attic and grab some "webicillin." :)

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You're more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than porn sites. lol

According to research from security firm Symantec, religious websites carry three times more malware threats than pornography sites. Symantec found that the average number of security threats on religious sites was around 115, compared to adult content sites which carried around 25. In fact, only 2.4 percent of adult sites were infected with malware. The researchers hypothesized that's because porn sites need to generate a profit, so there's a financial incentive to keeping them virus-free to encourage repeat business.

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A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.

Clouds are not as light and fluffy as they appear. In fact, researchers have found that a single cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds. How do they know? Well, that number is calculated by taking the water density of a cloud and multiplying it by its volume. Fortunately, the cloud can still "float" at that weight because the air below it is even heavier.

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The longest single-word name of a place in the whole world is in New Zealand and is named; Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters)

One of the shortest names of a place in the whole world is Å in Norway.

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The longest single-word name of a place in the whole world is in New Zealand and is named; Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters)

One of the shortest names of a place in the whole world is Å in Norway.

lol WOW!


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According to Switzerland's law, social animals like guinea pigs must have a buddy with them. Owning only one is considered animal abuse and is illegal.

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It is considered rude to write in red ink in Portugal.

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The Ballpoint-Pen was invented by the Hungarian journalist László Bíró.

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The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year.

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The loudest animal in the world is a mere 2cm long, prawn. The Pistol Shrimp is capable of snapping it’s claw shut so rapidly, that it creates a bubble which collapses to produce a sonic blast, louder than a Corncode’s sonic boom.

The shock wave can reach 230 decibels, louder than the sound of a gunshot. The imploding bubble for split seconds also generates temperates of 4,400C, nearly as hot as the sun, killing it’s prey.


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Boring, Oregon and Dull, Scotland have been sister cities since 2012. In 2017, they added Bland Shire, Australia to their "League of Extraordinary Communities." lol

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During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes." The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.

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The bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest mammal

Weighing in at 0.05 to 0.07 ounces, with a head-to-body length of 1.14 to 1.29 inches and a wingspan of 5.1 to 5.7 inches, the bumblebee bat—also known as Kitti’s hog-nosed bat—is the smallest mammal in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. To see this tiny bat for yourself, you’d have to visit one of a select few limestone caves on the Khwae Noi River in Kanchanaburi Province of southwest Thailand. Here are more of Earth’s tiniest creatures that play a big role in the environment.

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Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world

Not only does Sudan have more pyramids than Egypt, but the numbers aren’t even close. While 138 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt, Sudan boasts around 255.

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Baseball umpires used to sit in rocking chairs

People have been playing baseball since the mid-19th century. In the early days, umpires would officiate the games while reclining in a rocking chair located 20 feet behind home plate. By 1878, the National League also declared that home teams must pay umpires $5 per game.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Frank, And Barbara Walters Were Born In The Same Year

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France Was Still Using The Guillotine For Executions When 'Star Wars' Hit Theaters

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Pluto Was Made And Unmade A Planet Before It Completed One Orbit Of The Sun

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Laws In Longyearbyen, Norway, Include An Alcohol Quota, A Cat Ban, And No Burials

Longyearbyen, a town in Norway on the archipelago of Svalbard, is the northernmost settlement in the world with a population of more than 1,000 people. It was founded by an American, John Munro Longyear, in 1906 as a mining settlement, and has some unusual laws.

Because hundreds of polar bears live in the surrounding area, residents are required to carry and be able to use a high-powered rifle if they leave the settlement. However, guns are not allowed indoors.

To protect the Arctic bird population on the archipelago, another law bars anyone in Svalbard from having a cat as a pet.

The purchase of alcohol is heavily regulated. Anyone who resides in Svalbard has a monthly quota of alcohol they can purchase. All alcohol must be purchased on the archipelago; no tax-free alcohol can be imported from the mainland.

Also, no one can be buried in Longyearbyen. The settlement has a small graveyard, but no one has been interred there in approximately 70 years because the soil is permafrost, which means a corpse does not decompose after it is buried.

The law has given rise to the saying that it's illegal to die in Longyearbyen. While not technically true, anyone with a terminal illness would be sent to the mainland. It's also not a place for anyone to be born. As a tour guide explained:

"When a woman has three weeks left of her pregnancy, she must go back to the mainland to have her baby."

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A Sperm Bank Was Designed To Collect Sperm From Nobel Prize Winners

The Repository for Germinal Choice in Escondido, CA, founded in 1979 by multimillionaire Robert Graham, was a sperm bank meant to collect sperm from Nobel Prize winners. Graham reportedly thought the world was getting dumber, and wanted to reverse this trend by filling the population with children of smart prizewinners.

Graham advertised for potential mothers in a Mensa magazine; to “qualify,” the women needed to be married to men who were infertile, well-educated, and financially secure. He promoted his plan to the media as a way of saving humankind, but the public was so outraged that two of the three Nobel Prize winners Graham had recruited ended up withdrawing from the program. The third, scientist William Shockley, was a white supremacist who believed Black people were intellectually inferior to white people; his involvement in Graham's plan prompted a Saturday Night Live skit, “Dr. Shockley's House of Sperm.”

Graham was accused of, among other things, trying to create his own “master race.” So he pivoted, recruiting donors other than Nobel Prize winners. By the time Graham passed in 1997, 229 children had reportedly been born as a result of sperm donations from the clinic; none, however, were the offspring of a Nobel Prize winner.

The sperm bank closed in 1999. Two years later, Slate reporter David Plotz began investigating the clinic in the hopes of finding out who the donors were and what had happened to the sperm donations.

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France's Last Execution By Guillotine Occurred In 1977, The Same Year 'Star Wars' Was Released

During the French Revolution, executions happened routinely and in masse, sometimes by firing squad, hanging, or manual beheadings using an ax or sword. All methods lacked efficiency, and to physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, they were also cruel and inhumane. He petitioned the new revolutionary government to require that all executions be carried out using a machine, and after his application was accepted, he worked on building his deadly device.

While beheading machines existed prior to the French Revolution, this new device would be the most sophisticated execution apparatus of its day. Designed by French doctor Antoine Louis and built by German harpsichord maker Tobias Schmidt, the beheading device was dubbed a guillotine after the man who championed its usage, much to his horror and consternation.

The guillotine debuted its execution efficacy on April 25, 1792 and became a sensation. French folks of all ages came in droves to witness public executions, and its operators even became ghoulish celebrities. While it may seem like this frenzy over the guillotine remains in the far past, public executions remained in France until June 17, 1939, with the execution of convicted murderer Eugène Weidmann. After his demise, executions via guillotine continued, but were no longer public spectacles. On September 10, 1977, Hamida Djandoubi was the last to perish from the guillotine in France; in 1981, the machine was banned outright. Djandoubi was the also, as of 2021, the last person executed by any means in Western Europe.

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Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.


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Britain Once Banned Christmas

Can you think of anything worse? But it's true, between 1644 and 1660, Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell ( a sort of unelected Prime Minister) banned the Celebration of Christmas! Cromwell was a Puritan, a sort of very strict Christian who believed that fun things like dancing, music and even make up were sinful and upset God. Unsurprisingly, this wasn't very popular, and there were even riots over it! The English might not have liked it, but the Scots weren't as bothered - in Scotland there was no Christmas celebration from 1640 until...1958! Well, it wasn't a public holiday anyway. That means your great grandad might have had to go to work on Christmas!

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Famous conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by a horde of bunnies! He had requested that a rabbit hunt be arranged for himself and his men. When the rabbits were released from their cages, the bunnies charged toward Bonaparte and his men in an unstoppable onslaught. lol

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Venus is the only planet that spins clockwise

Every 225 Earth days, Venus travels around the sun, but Venus rotates clockwise once every 243 days.

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Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport. Between 1912 and 1948, the international sporting events awarded medals for music, painting, sculpture and architecture.


When The Olympics had Art Competitions
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Australia is wider than the moon

The moon sits at 3,400 kilometers (2,113 miles) in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4,000 km (2,485 miles).

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The small European country of Liechtenstein (Population 40.000) is the world's biggest exporter of false teeth.

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The small European country of Liechtenstein (Population 40.000) is the world's biggest exporter of false teeth.

lol Well that is something I did not know. lol

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During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes."

The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police. lol


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The 100 folds in a chef's toque are said to represent 100 ways to cook an egg.

In the early days, the number of pleats in the chef's hat represented the number of recipes a chef knew for a given food item, like egg or chicken. Having a hat with 100 pleats meant he knew 100 recipes to prepare with an egg. The same applied to the height of the hat. The taller the toque, the more a chef knew.


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Guinness once estimated that 93,000 liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone.


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Dogs are one the three most dangerous animals in the UK with bees and cows.

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The first hand-held mobile phone call was made on April 3rd, 1973, in NYC.


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No number before 1,000 contains the letter A. Not sure this is a amazing fact but weird none the less. lol

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