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random facts you know

I’ll start:

A flock of crows is called a murder

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let us begin

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Eating 30 apricot seeds can be lethal because it contains a compound that releases cyanide when digested

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  • There’s an amusement park in Japan where you can pay someone to stage a fight with you to impress your date when you “win”. - England and Zanzibar once went to war and Zanzibar surrendered after 39 minutes - it’s considered the shortest war in history. - Oprah’s name was misspelled on her birth certificate. - The Bible purposely misnames Pagan gods. - Someone was president of Mexico (I think) for 45 minutes. - The youngest person to ever give birth was Lina Medina, although I may have misspelled her name. She began menstruating at eight months old and was pregnant at five. They don’t know who the father of her son is and she refused to disclose it. - The hemophilia of the son of a royal family somewhere in Europe was cured when they stopped giving him aspirin. - Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is considered one of the most terrible video games of all time. - A Disney cruise ship employee disappeared from the ship one day, I believe in the 1990s, and nobody knows where she is or if she’s still alive. - There’s a company named Arrow Dynamics. - The DSM isn’t actually the official standard of mental health diagnostics - that’s the ICD. It’s just that the DSM is more commonly used. - Survivors of the Titanic sinking were picked up by a ship called the Carpathia. - Many Americans didn’t care about World War I until the sinking of the Lusitania, despite the fact that very few Americans were on the ship in comparison to other nationalities. The ship was sunk by a German submarine because they thought it was carrying explosives despite it being a passenger ship. - Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in the company’s earlier years and later returned. - The term “earworm” refers to a song that gets stuck in your head. - Japan has “sleeper trains” for long trips, though a lot of them are being replaced by the Shinkansen (bullet trains).
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  • The Bible purposely misnames Pagan gods.

Where did you find that?  I don’t think its true.

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-Fire can conduct electricity, being plasma.

-There are 5 states of matter (arguable, I think)

-Labyrinthian fish such as bettas actually have “lungs” that enable them to breathe for a while above water. 

-It is considered bad luck to say “Macbeth” on a set doing the play.

-Pure water, just water, does not conduct electricity. 

-The stereotypical heart shape is made of two hearts stitched together.

-The immortal jellyfish can revert to a juvenile stage to be “reborn” again, living forever.

-Your nostrils don’t smell at the same rate or accuracy.

I think these are right. 

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wow that’s alot

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Want facts? Oh, I have facts alright.

  1. If yo go to North Korea, you can’t leave.

  2. Movie Theaters spray a chemical to bring that nice, popcorn smell.

And 3. You that read

read wrong.

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Why can’t you leave North Korea?

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Look it up, and you might find why.  I did.

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That is simply not true. You can even visit North Korea as a tourist [source] . Granted, it won’t be like any holiday you’ve ever done before, but it’s not like they’ll throw you in prison the moment you set foot in their country.

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ok

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There is a black hole at the center of every galaxy.

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sup bro

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The solar systems, however, are so far away that all they can do is orbit it. The black hole either can’t or will take a ridiculously long time to pull them into itself.

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*under breath* I only know that cuz I live with him

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To build a time machine we need two black holes. If somebody were to build a time machine they wouldn’t be able to go back to before the machine was made.

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  • Bacon was used to make explosives during WWII.
  • The average cumulus cloud weighs roughly 1.1 million lbs.
  • Green Eggs and Ham was banned in China from 1965 until 1991 for it’s “portrayal of early Marxism.”
  • Chinese checkers was invented in Germany.
  • The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.

I could go on.

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Ohhhh. You just BLEW my mind!

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When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red. Owls are the only bird able to see blue. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. Starfish have no brains. “Almost” is the longest word in English with all the letters in alphabetical order. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green. When you say “a million seconds”, it means 11 and a half days. “A billion seconds” would be over 31 years.