Interesting Facts - Page 136

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The Republic of Molossia is an unrecognized micro-state located in Nevada, just 1.28 square kilometers in size. The dictator of Molossia, Kevin Baugh, continues to pay taxes to the local and federal government which he classifies as "foreign aid". Also, Molossia is at war with East Germany.
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Many French kings are known to history by very unflattering nicknames, These include Charles the Bald, Louis the Stammerer, Philip the Amorous, Louis the Fat, Louis the Quarreller, and Louis the Universal Spider.
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Nearly 1% of the U.S. federal budget is spent on dialysis to treat patients with kidney failure. The typical life expectancy for someone on dialysis is about 3 years.
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Gypsum, the material used to make drywall, is edible in small amounts. It is often added to tofu to make it firmer.
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A "tontine" is an arrangement where a group of people pool their money to buy an annuity (an investment which returns an annual payout). When a member of the group dies, his share is split among the survivors. Eventually, the final survivor gets the entire payout. Tontines were common in the 18th and 19th centuries and are still used in France today.
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Credit @SirPhilippines for #676.
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May 16, 2021
Source for #678 is the Freakonomics podcast. My guess is that the percentage is lower now due to the explosion in government spending in response to Covid.
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Apples, peaches, and raspberries are all members of the rose family.
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May 9, 2021
Also, the Amazon is actually longer than the Nile. Brazilian scientists had a fortnight-long expedition to measure the Amazon, finding out that it's 105 kilometres longer than the Nile.
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May 18, 2021
"brazilian" no bias there
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Aug 3, 2021
Louis the Universal Spider?? Who's making these up?
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Nov 10, 2021
It's not exactly unflattering: "His taste for intrigue and his intense diplomatic activity earned him the nicknames "the Cunning" (Middle French: le rusé) and "the Universal Spider" (Middle French: l'universelle aragne), as his enemies accused him of spinning webs of plots and conspiracies."
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May 9, 2021
I had actually made a quiz about Molossia a while back.
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There is an unrecognized sovereign state called The Sovereign Military Order Of Malta. It claims no land but has relations with 105 sovereign states. Keep in mind, this is not the same country as Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean.
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1. Cows don’t actually have four stomachs; they have one stomach with four compartments.

2. There are no muscles in your fingers: Their function is controlled by muscles in your palms and arms.

3. What’s inside a Kit Kat? Broken Kit Kats that are damaged during production—they get ground up and go between the wafers inside, along with cocoa and sugar.

4. The ashes of Fred Bauer, the creator of Pringles, are inside a Pringles can

5. With 3.572 billion viewers, half the world’s population watched the 2018 FIFA World Cup

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Study finds the idea of Kit Kats made from Kit Kats "acceptable." "At least we finally know what's in them." /s
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Sep 12, 2023
I took that as there is a little bit of Fred in every Pringle you eat.
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May 9, 2021
The worlds 2nd largest hot spring, named boiling lake, is located in Dominica
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The worlds 2nd most populated city is located in Japan.
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i smell sarcasm
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I see sarcasm
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The worlds 2nd largest country, named canada, is located in North America
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The worlds second largest continent, named Asia, is located on Earth.
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I lied. It is Africa lol
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the worlds 2nd most populous country, named india, is in asia
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May 18, 2021
lol
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In 1955, The Anaconda Copper Mining company opend a mine in Butte, Montana. The pit was filled in, and now dangerous chemicals like Arsenic exist in the lake, making it extremely toxic.
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In 1986, Lake Urmia was receiving an increased amount of pollutants, now it shrunk. Tell me this fact isn't interesting and that means your fact isn't interesting.
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May 10, 2021
that is an interesting fatc
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May 23, 2021
Well, if you read all the facts, how many would you call “interesting”.
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More Russians died in the Siege of Leningrad than the total American and British casualties of WW2 COMBINED

Source is Wikipedia.

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William Bullock invented the Rotary Printing Press. Years later, when he installed his new machine in Pennsylvania, his foot got stuck in it. He managed to get it out, but it developed Gangrene. He went to amputate his foot, but he died during the amputation process..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions#Industrial

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May 10, 2021
I knew that
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May 11, 2021
Good for you.
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May 11, 2021
Interesting.
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Similar to Molossia, the Conch Republic, basically Key West but with a different name, claim its independence too. It was founded in 1982 by the city's mayor after a U.S. Border Patrol made a roadblock and checkpoint and asserted its independence. Its official currency is the Conch Dollar
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Apr 21, 2022
Didn't it immediately declare war on the US and then surrender hours later?
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Aug 4, 2022
why would you do that??
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Mar 26, 2023
because you have no army
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May 10, 2021
The Hudson Bay has less gravity than other parts of the world

T-Mobile trademarked the color Magenta

Lake Hillier in Australia is Pink

The color orange was nemed after the fruit

Snail Teeth are harder than diamonds

You are always within 6 miles of water in Michigan

2 of John Tyler's grandsons are still alive

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May 11, 2021
Except that he had 16 adopted children.
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May 11, 2021
Still related
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May 19, 2021
"Lake Hiller in Australia is pink"

Grass is Green.

"The color Orange is named after the fruit"

Lafayette Park is named after Marquis De Lafayette'

"Snail" Teeth are harder than Diamonds

Rocks are harder than sand.

"You are always within 6 mi of water in Michigan"

You are always within 1 mi of land too.

"2 of Tyler's grandsons are still alive"

Many of MLK's are too,

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May 19, 2021
Except that MLK died 106 years after Tyler.
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May 20, 2021
@ARandomQuizzer.

For those who'd think blue and red do exist and magenta is just deduced by the brain, I would just add that technically, there isn't any color (blue and red included) as they all are created by the brain.

Eyes have censors for Blue Green and Red (actually Yellow), and the brain creates a color depending on how much each kind of censor reacts to an electromagnetic wave (light).

Magenta is only different in that it requires a reaction to Blue (one side of the spectrum) and Red (other side of the spectrum) but not Green (middle of the spectrum), so it can't come from just 1 continuous spectrum like the Sun (no magenta in rainbows).

What I find interesting is that two brains could technically make their own choice on the color to associate with an electromagnetic wave. So what one calls "blue" could be seen red or even an unknown color for someone else, and we'd have no way to find out, because if they are asked "what color is that?", each of them would answer "blue".

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Reactions to red are so well known, that we must be seeing the same thing.
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Ming the clam was 507 years old
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May 11, 2021
So what?
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May 11, 2021
Oldest known animal
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May 11, 2021
Clams are not. I'm pretty sure it is Kampecaris obanesis.
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May 11, 2021
its extinct tho
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May 11, 2021
I also thing 400 Million years is the age of the fossil
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May 11, 2021
And? Even if it is extinct doesn't exclude it from oldest known animal.
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May 12, 2021
Let me rephrase that: Ming the Clam lived to be 507 years old.

That's the oldest animal that still exists today.

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May 11, 2021
California has more people than Canada.

São Paulo (A brazillian state) has more people than Argentina

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May 11, 2021
Again, too well known. Try to find facts more obscure but interesting.
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May 11, 2021
Not interesting enough, but Tokyo also has more people than Canada.
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May 12, 2021
Russia was not last county to left USSR, Kazakhstan was. In the last 3 days of USSR, It was limited to Kazakhstan.
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May 21, 2022
Leonard likes this fact
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May 13, 2021
;>;
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May 13, 2021
Wan Hu, a (most likely mythical) Chinese official that lived during the 16th century, attempted to go to outer space by lifting himself on rockets.
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In Oregon, it's illegal to go fishing and to use canned corn for bait.
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In Oklahoma it is illegal to hunt Whales, though it is landlocked.

Nat Geo is my source.

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May 19, 2021
we flew a kite in a public place...
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Nov 17, 2021
Uh oh don't say that, they'll come after you!
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May 17, 2021
My mom works as a dialysis nurse. The reason that they die is the mostly due to the reason they got kidney failure. Most of her patients are diabetic and drug addicted. Their failing kidneys are a contributing factor but just thought i would throw this out there.
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Aug 13, 2022
Drug addicted context, anyone.

Mostly young and street drugs?

Mostly old and prescribed drugs?

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May 17, 2021
About %1 of the world population is subscribed to PewDiePie.
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May 19, 2021
Incorrect. That number could be reduced to as much as 0.75% due to subscriptions from multiple accounts which is very common.
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May 19, 2021
I said “about”.
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May 19, 2021
Yeah, but Clutch's scenario puts it off by 25 percent, not really an "about"
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May 19, 2021
Ok.
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May 18, 2021
Flying Union Jack Upside down is lese Majeste (Insulting crown) and it is a theoretically a crime in UK and it's commonwealth.
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Nov 17, 2021
Only the flag looks the same either way up....
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Jul 9, 2023
The problem is it is not
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May 19, 2021
It is possible to bring some dinosaur species back to life.
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Aug 13, 2023
How
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May 19, 2021
It is forbidden to insult flag of any country in Denmark, except Danish flag.
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Denmark Citizen: I hate the Canadian flag!

Denmark: N O

Denmark Citizen: I hate the Indian flag!

Denmark: N O

Denmark Citizen: I hate the Danish flag!

Denmark: Understandable, have a great day.

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May 22, 2021
Lol
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May 25, 2021
😂
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May 20, 2021
I made my own micronation too
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= 2
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Nunavut, Canada is the largest national subdivision on the North American continent. Despite this, it is the only one not connected by road.
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May 21, 2021
False. From here, I can see many highways that connect Northwest Territories to Nunavut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highways_in_Nunavut

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May 21, 2021
I don't see what you're describing. When I clicked the link, the first sentence said that Nunavut was the only province/territory not connected to the rest of Canada by road. There are many roads within Nunavut, but none of them connect to the outside world as far as I can see.
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May 21, 2021
Notice how there is no citation next to that. Then, check the first highway which says Yellowknife, which is in a different province of Canada.
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May 21, 2021
You’re correct. Nice job!
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Nov 10, 2021
"The road does not cross into Nunavut any longer." (it's a temporary winter road constructed every year for a couple of months)
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May 26, 2021
You are approximately 0.0000001% of the world's population. If a Wyominger, you are 0.001% of their population.
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May 26, 2021
And If you are a Monowi, Nebraskan, you are 100% of their population.
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May 26, 2021
And since only one person lives there, and I am referring to them , its 100
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May 26, 2021
And if you live on Neptune, you are approximately 0% of the human population. Maybe that's where NeilVedwan lives...
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May 27, 2021
And you are approximately 100% too...
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May 27, 2021
No, you are alien, that's why it is 0% human population.
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Jul 31, 2022
Well, it depends how far you want to stretch the usage of the word 'approximately'
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May 27, 2021
Molossia- an unrecognized nation, is at war with technically Germany... Specifically the states of Saxony, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, and the side of Berlin east of the Wall.
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May 29, 2021
We need an page 19 of Interesting Quotes!
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May 30, 2021
Tontines sound fascinating. Anybody want to do one?
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Nov 11, 2021
Why is no one talking about the French kings!

How many Louis’ were shamed during these times lol

And universal spider? What sparked that?”?

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Aug 22, 2023
I came in the comment section for this. Djilas: "It's not exactly unflattering: "His taste for intrigue and his intense diplomatic activity earned him the nicknames "the Cunning" (Middle French: le rusé) and "the Universal Spider" (Middle French: l'universelle aragne), as his enemies accused him of spinning webs of plots and conspiracies.""
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Nov 17, 2021
If you scroll up you'll find I left a comment on the universal spider
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Mar 19, 2022
The world's 2nd most sarcastic comment is on this page.
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May 20, 2023
There are 10 human body parts that are 3 letters long (eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, gum)
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