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Can you guess those 20 randomly selected interesting facts from the 'Interesting Facts' page?
answer must correspond to the yellow box
as of November 23, 2019, there are 363 possible answers
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Last updated: November 24, 2019
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Interesting Fact
295
Certain tribes in the Amazon used to collect the shrunken heads of their defeated enemies.
In the early 1900s, Western collectors started buying the heads. This caused an increase in
murders as "headhunters" killed people and shrunk their heads to make money.
221
Cows kill more people than sharks.
120
Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name was Roosevelt. She was distantly related to her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt.
197
Shanghai is a word. It means to force or trick someone to working on the crew of a ship.
112
The sandwich was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
59
Simeon Stylites was a Christian saint who lived in Syria in the 400s AD.
He gained fame for living on top of a pillar for the last 37 years of his life.
189
The word "thug" is derived from the Hindi word "thuggee". The Thuggees were gangs of robbers in India who
strangled and killed unsuspecting travelers in service to the goddess Kali.
However, some modern scholars dispute whether Thuggees really existed.
281
Red-green color blindness affects up to 8% of men but only 0.5 % of women.
35
In the year 874 AD, Ingólfr Arnarson became the first person to
permanently settle on the island of Iceland - at least according to the traditional story.
342
Antonio López de Santa Anna served twelve non-consecutive terms as
President of Mexico. Grover Cleveland eat your heart out.
314
The Harlem Globetrotters used to be a serious basketball team. In fact, in 1948, they beat the
Minneapolis Lakers, considered by many to be the best team in the country.
20
Alaska's "Little Diomede" island is just 2.3 miles from Russia's "Big Diomede" island.
183
About 50% of the world's gold was mined in South Africa.
316
Political opponents of Chester A. Arthur claimed that
he was born in Canada and therefore ineligible to become President.
74
Technically speaking, Alaska is both the westernmost and the easternmost U.S. state.
Some of the Aleutian Islands are so far west that they extend into the Eastern Hemisphere.
25
In Jewish mythology, Adam had a wife before Eve. Her name was Lilith.
279
Just before the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba went into effect in 1962, John F. Kennedy asked his
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger to get him 1,000 Cuban cigars.
181
Due to generations of inbreeding, the parents of King Charles II of Spain were more closely related than siblings.
160
Cunningham's law states that the best way to get the right answer on the internet
is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
297
Between 1908 and 1940, it was possible to buy a house in the Sears Catalog. The materials needed for
building the house would be delivered, with assembly required on site. Over 70,000 homes were built this way.
ZooTuber3000
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Aug 2, 2021
Cool! Interesting to take multiple times, due to the many different potential answers. I just have a question: in a quiz, how can you make the answer appear in the blank spot?
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