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Some facts I got

America spent more money landscaping Central Park than buying Alaska

Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada

LEGO makes more tires per year than any automobile company

You can't breathe and swallow at the same time

Jimmy Carter once sent his jacket to a dry cleaner with US nuclear detonation codes inside his pocket

England's Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

There are no trees on the entire island of Malta (Idk if that's true)

Nobody knows why the alphabet is in the order it is

Quizmaster has more quiz takes than the populations of Pakistan and Venezuela combined!

The british company Peel made a car called the P50, which has 10 hp, can only go 30 km/h and weighs 53 kilos

LeBron James' son, Bronny James, is a member of FaZe Clan as a Call Of Duty content creator

Paul McCartney is the only artist to reach the UK number one spot as a soloist (Pipes of Peace), duo (Ebony and Ivory, with Stevie Wonder), trio (Mull of Kintyre, with Wings), quartet (She Loves You, with The Beatles), quintet (Get Back, with The Beatles and Billy Preston) and as a musical ensemble for charity (with Ferry Aid).

Have you already done the fact that Quezon City is actually the largest city in the Philippines by population, city proper?

Churchill's mother was American.

In 2016, Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh, a suicide bomber, boarded a flight bound from Mogadishu, Somalia. He brought along a laptop containing explosives with the intention of blowing up the plane. At an altitude of about 14,000 feet, Borleh detonated the bomb, opening a hole in the aircraft. Borleh himself was the only casualty of the entire incident.

I can't think of any better example of Instant Karma than that.

What about the fact that the Pitcairn Islands have a population of 40?

It's illegal to eat oranges in a bathtub in California

Well at least was then

Fun fact suggestion: It is illegal to jump out of a moving vehicle going 65 mph or more in California.

Little local fact of mine, in El Dorado County, the Wakamatsu Tea & Silk Farm Colony is the only settlement by the samurai outside of Japan.

There have been two reported successful cases of people walking between Russia and Alaska, USA via the Bering Strait freezing in winter

Source: https://angusadventures.com/adventurer-handbook/beringstrait/

85% of people in the U.S. who die due to a lightning strike are male. (Source: CDC. From 2013, I believe.)

https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata.html

Before the 2020 NFL season, the super bowl had never been hosted in one of the contending teams' stadiums. It has happened both times after that.

The leaning tower of Pisa was built over 450 years before the Taj Mahal

Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal was known for not being able to make a free throw to save his life, while his dunking capability was excellent. To make sure that Shaq didn't make dunks, Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson came up with a strategy called the "Hack-A-Shaq" that involved Mavs players literally hugging Shaq to prevent him from reaching the paint, and when fouls were called, Shaq would go to the free throw line and proceed to miss every single shot. Shaq was so pissed off by this strategy that he stormed into the NBA commissioner's office and demanded that rules be changed, or else he would fight whoever "Hack-A-Shaq'ed" him.

Interesting Fact #748: I am actually not popular.

Fun fact: There are 3 cities named Gay, all in Russia.

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Two possible facts for the list:

- Greta Thunberg's mother (Malena Ernman) is an opera singer who represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Constest 2009

-The first person convicted of speeding was going 8 miles / 13 km per hour (Walter Arnold, 1896)

Poland has been partitioned by the Germans, Russians, and Austrians five times. First were the three partitions between the Russian Empire, Prussian Kingdom, and Austrian Empire that ended the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Then, after Napoleon was defeated, his puppet Duchy of Warsaw was cut up by the same three powers again. Finally, the Second Polish Republic was carved up by Nazi Germany (Austria being a part of Germany) and Soviet Russia.

Also- Ulysses S. Grant, two fun facts about him:

His first name, Hiram Ulysses Grant, would have made his initials HUG. So he changed his first name to Ulysses, and his middle name became Simpson.

He also got a speeding ticket once. The officer's name was William H. West.

The officer said: "I am very sorry Mr. President, to have to do it, for you are chief of the nation and I am nothing but a policeman, but duty is duty, sir, and I will have to place you under arrest."

Iceland fought a series of mini-wars with the UK in the 20th century over fishing rights, known as the Cod Wars. Iceland beat the UK in all conflicts and increased their Exclusive Economic Zone from 4 nautical miles to 200, a border that still stands today.

That pistachio one is nuts! (Sorry, sorry, I'll see myself out...)