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In Japan, the Yakuza are known to police as bōryokudan, meaning "violent groups". But they call themselves ninkyō dantai, meaning "chivalrous organizations".

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In 2001, a Yakuza mob boss named Tadamasa Goto gave a $100,000 donation to UCLA. In exchange, they gave him a liver transplant, allowing him to jump the queue. That same year, 186 people in the Los Angeles area died while waiting for a liver transplant. The FBI was also involved.

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In 2009, Zimbabwe had so much hyperinflation that it issued a banknote with a face value of 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars. When the bills were retired, they were worth less than 1 U.S. cent. Today, the bills are worth a few dollars as a collector item.

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In 1971, President Nixon ordered that all wages and prices were to remain frozen for ninety days. This was intended to prevent an inflationary panic as the U.S. went off the gold standard. It was also a blatant violation of the Constitution.

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In the 1950s, nuclear tests in the Nevada desert were visible to tourists staying at Las Vegas hotels.

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Level 52

Feb 28, 2022

My own father used to claim he saw the nuclear tests. I didn’t really believe him though, because he’d never been to Nevada. But I never spoiled the fun.

+17

Level 52

Mar 10, 2022

my granny says she saw leprechauns once

Level 61

Mar 1, 2022

The Car Peel P50 weighs about 100 pounds or about 40-ish kilos

Level 58

Mar 29, 2022

It also doesn't reverse, instead having a deployable handle to pull the car backwards. It also happens to be the slowest car, at like 30 mph.

Level 49

Feb 22, 2023

It is the slowest car, The lightest, and commercially available smallest car. You can buy one today for the price of a new-ish car, making it one of the priciest per pound cars.

+10

Level 64

Mar 10, 2022

During WWII, a French Resistance soldier died after eating plastic explosives he mistook for cheese.

Level 37

May 17, 2024

thats the most french thing in the history of france

Level 28

Mar 10, 2022

Andy Warhol may have died from being shot, 20+ years after the shooting happened.

Level 43

Mar 12, 2022

In 2018, 39% of the world population has the fabellas, an extra par of sesamoid bones, that are located in the posterior part of the knees articulation. In 1918, 11% of the world population had the fabellas, what made the scientists to think they were disappearing with the human evolution.

It’s unknown the real function of these bones, but according to a researcher from the London Imperial College Bioengineering Department, “the fabella can behave like other sesamoid bones, helping to reduce friction in tendons and redirecting muscle forces or, as in the case of the kneecap, increasing the mechanical strength of the muscle”

Level 59

Mar 15, 2022

femur

Level 43

Mar 15, 2022

~~blog games~~

Level 58

Mar 12, 2022

Nicolas Cage's uncle is Francis Ford Coppola

Level 60

Feb 26, 2023

Which uncle?

Level 36

Mar 15, 2022

Quizmaster when will you have another interesting facts?

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Level 59

Mar 15, 2022

When he makes it.

Level 35

Mar 15, 2022

Interesting Fact: If you go 70 million light years away from earth, and point a telescope to earth, you would still see dinosaurs since light needs to travel 70 more million years.

Level 65

Mar 15, 2022

Hence the name light years.

Level 60

Mar 16, 2022

Use this^

Level 54

Mar 21, 2022

Fun Fact: If you travel at the speed of light for 70 million years and look back through a telescope, you will see humans.

Level 58

Mar 29, 2022

This is honestly more well known than most things here. I don't think it fits.

Level 50

Jun 9, 2022

Fact:If you go 0 million light year away from earth, you’ll see humans

Level 41

Oct 27, 2022

If you take a million years to go zero million light years what will you see?

You will see what is happening right now 100 million light years away.

That is not what I meant.

+11

Level 55

Mar 20, 2022

There are a million ways to use Nixon and "Blatant violation of the constitution" in the same sentence.

Level 49

Feb 22, 2023

I don't like to talk about politics, but yeah you're right.

Level 57

Mar 22, 2022

Fun Fact: In 2022, the United States government decided to go on permanent daylight savings times (1 hour ahead of normal time). It passed in the Senate with a unanimous vote after little debate. This system has actually been tried before in 1974-1975 but was scrapped due to widespread feelings of jetlag and disruption of normal sleeping patterns.

Level 68

Mar 23, 2022

While the Senate did pass the bill, the House of Representatives has not yet, so the government hasn't switched to permanent daylight savings time as of now. It would also require President Biden to sign the bill for it to become law.

Personally, though, I think the previous experience with this already makes it clear that having daylight savings time become permanent will not end very well.

Level 67

Apr 3, 2022

Why don't we just eat lunch at 11?

Level 49

Feb 22, 2023

I wish daylight savings wasn't a thing

Level 57

Mar 27, 2022

Romania and Moldova's currency is called the Leu, Bulgaria's is the Lev, and Albania's is the Lek.

Level 58

Mar 29, 2022

Fortune cookies aren't from China, but rather Chinese restaurants in the US. In fact, they are almost unheard of in China. Chinese restaurants typically weren't home to deserts, and this was noticed by Americans who wanted sweets after dinner. Eventually someone, who may or may not have even been Chinese, made the fortune cookie, and to this day they are given in most Chinese restaurants.

Level 64

Aug 5, 2022

i can understand why chinese restaurants typically aren't home to *deserts*

Level 64

Aug 5, 2022

I can understand why chinese restaurants typically aren't home to *deserts*

Level 64

Aug 5, 2022

I can understand why chinese restaurants typically aren't home to *deserts*

Level 64

Aug 5, 2022

i can understand why chinese restaurants typically aren't home to *deserts*

Level 49

Feb 22, 2023

You can understand why Chinese restaurants typically aren't home to what?

Level 60

May 23, 2023

I heard it was made by a Japanese immigrant to the US.

Level 57

Mar 30, 2022

Jesus Christ wasn't likely born the year BC ended and CE began, most likely being born from 6-4 BC.

Level 49

Feb 22, 2023

This doesn't make any sense, since then we'd have to push back the Calendar 6-4 years as the christian one is almost entirely based on his birth.

Level 60

May 23, 2023

There is no year between BCE and CE anyhow. He would have been born at the instant the year 1 BCE became 1 CE.

Level 75

May 21, 2022

On the Yakuza topic - they have frequently been the first responders to disasters, outpacing government authorities and genuinely saving lives. Here's a Reuters article rom 2011, just after the disastrous earthquake/tsunami/nuclear incident:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yakuza-idUSTRE72O6TF20110325

It's mostly P.R. though - if only they looked after vulnerable Japanese women and small businesses on a day-to-day basis instead of enslaving and exploiting them...