Interesting Facts - Page 125

The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been vandalized multiple times.

Her head was stolen two times, her right arm has been stolen once, One time there was a big gash on her neck, and she has gotten blasted off her base, a (censored) was attached to her hand (please don't ban me because of this, this is just facts), green paint dumped on her with March 8 written on her, she was drenched with red paint with "Danmark [sic] defend the whales of the Faroe Islands" written on her, drenched with blue and white paint with "Befri Abdulle" written on her, and "Free Hong Kong" and "racist fish" written on her.

Sources: [1], [2]

I know I shared this on a quiz page recently but I think it would work here too:

"Saddam Hussein once wrote a romance novel about a woman in an abusive relationship. While most scholars believe it is an allegory for the relationship between the US and Hussein's Iraq, it also sold over 1 million copies and was adapted as a television series and a musical."

Also a Blood Quran fact would be good if you haven't included one already. Something like this:

"Saddam Hussein once commissioned a Quran written in his own blood. After his overthrow, religious authorities faced a paradox: the act of writing a Quran in blood is considered a heresy, but so is the act of destroying a Quran. It currently is locked away in a mosque under incredibly high security."

The city of Pripyat (location of the Chernobyl disaster) is an incorporated city, and like you probably thought, is a ghost town.

Sudan has more Pyramids than egypt.

https://www.farandwide.com/s/amazing-geography-facts-d9d661749cad43df

Chile's southernmost point is closer to the South Pole than to Chile's northernmost point (as far as I can make out).

There were two proposals for France and Britain to form a "Franco-British Union" or merge the empires.

1. WWII (When France surrendered to Germany)

2. The Suez Crisis (Cold War)

Mcdonalds was first opened as a barbeque restaraunt

In 1970, George H.W. Bush ran against incumbent Lloyd Bentsen for a senate seat. Bentsen won. 18 years later, in 1988, Bush defeated Bentsen comfortably in the popular vote, by 7.8%b (similar to the margin in the senate race, 7.0%).

The largest pyramid is not in Egypt

Topeka, Kansas was once renamed Google, for April Fools Day.

Birch Bayh had represented Indiana in the senate from 1962-1980 when he was defeated by Dan Quayle (Quayle would later become VP). So when he did, Dan Coats was appointed to serve until the 1990 senate special. He won and served until he retired in 1999. After that, Evan Bayh (the son of Birch Bayh) became a senator. He served as senator until his retirement in 2011. Then, the same Dan Coats became senator AGAIN! He retired in 2016 and was succeeded by Todd Young, who defeated the former senator Evan Bayh (same one)!

Why do they need two copies? And what do they do with the "unsignificant" ones?

Giacomo Puccini, a famous composer, liked to smoke. He started to smoke at 14, and when he was young and had no money, He took of the pipes of the organ in the church whose organ player was him, sold them, and bought cigarttes with that money. He arranged the music that he had to play so he could perform without using the pipes he took off.

Maybe almost everyone who enjoys classical music will know, the famous 'Ode to Joy' is not the ending of beethoven's 9th symphony.

In National Anthem of Pakistan,there are only one word which is only in urdu.

Willow Canyon, Arizona's smallest city, is located just a few miles away from the urban sprawl of Tucson.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. How ironic.

With regards of 622...

Is that the real deal? I mean, is the correlation between sunshine exposure and nearsightedness the main factor?

Maybe is the fact that highly urbanized societies have works that wear out the eyes quickier (screens all day, night shifts, reading snail-sized captions).

Maybe is the fact that nearsightedness can be found easier in more developed countries (not much by the technology, but by the availability), and thus have higher numbers reported.

I don't argue whether sunlight exposure could be a factor, I argue whether it is the factor.