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Richard Gere’s middle name is Tiffany.
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When the Davis Oil Refinery comes online (estimated 2023), it will be the first new oil refinery in the United States since 1977.
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In 2016, Luke Aikins jumped from an airplane flying at 25,000 feet without a parachute and landed in a giant net.
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Before iodine was added to salt, it was common for people from inland areas to have goiters. Mark Twain once said that the principal features of Swiss scenery were "Mont Blanc and the goiter". In parts of Michigan, 30% of potential WWI recruits had noticeable goiters.
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From 1946–1987, the Soviet Union illegally killed 180,000 whales - nearly driving several species to extinction. By the time they finally abolished whaling, only 350 blue whales remained in the entire world.
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2. The word escalate is named after the escalator (not the other way around!)
3. Male orb weaver spiders will sometimes give their mates back rubs to avoid getting eaten!
4. On average there are 178 sesame seeds on a McDonalds Big Mac
5. It cost 7.5 million dollars to make the Titanic, but 200 million to make the movie about it. (USD)
6. The Goodyear blimp is the official bird of Redondo Beach, CA
7. The inventor of Pringles (Frederic Baur), when he died was cremated and buried in a Pringles can.
8. During WWII, the US made a spy manual encouraging managers in enemy territory to sabotage their employers by bringing up irrelevant issues, promoting bad workers, and more. (I saw this on reddit)
he a little confused, but he got the spirit
Every country on the Arabian Peninsula has no rivers
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. (That's true. You can look it up.)
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
On average, there are over 17,000,000 vacant homes in America at any given time. Yet there are still 552,830 homeless people in America.
The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It's 1/100th of a second.
Mozart: King of Music in general
The more bubbles there are in a bottle of soda, the less soda is in the bottle.
The more soda you get, the more bubbles you get.
Therefore, the more soda you have, the less soda you have.
Another Note: That day was Thanksgiving 🇹🇷🦃
Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth were also born in the same year, 1926.
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Cookie monster’s real name is Sid
The closest country to the United States that doesn’t border it is Russia
The world’s largest desert is Antarctica
Aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes
Ketchup is literally pickled tomato sauce
The singular form of graffiti is graffito.
France’s longest land border is with Brazil.
Coolth is a word, meaning the opposite of warmth.
Overmorrow means the day after tomorrow.
Cows kill more people than sharks.
Only six people were killed in the continental US in World War 2.
The guillotine was used in France up until 1977.
China only uses one time zone
There is a town in Nebraska with only one citizen.
The Basque language is not closely related to any other known language.
The Berlin-Brandenburg airport has worse reviews than the Aleppo airport, a war zone
There is a part of the UAE in a part of Oman in a part of the UAE
Hawaiian pizza is from Canada.
There are multiple villages in Norway named Å.
When making a sign that exactly says "This and That", one could say, "The space between This and And and And and That is completely different."
"before was was was was was is.