Interesting Facts - Page 163

811

In Ireland, more people speak Polish as their first language than speak Irish.

812

Think housing prices only go up? In Japan, housing prices have declined nearly 30% since their peak in 1990.

813

Dogs are banned in Antarctica.

814

The word footage comes from films being measured in feet in early film making.

815

Over a fifth of the calories consumed by humans are from rice.

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Dec 27, 2022

Credit @Bentshaggyoil for 811, 813, 814, and 815.

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Dec 28, 2022

The South Park episodes "200" and "201" were both nominated for Emmys, despite only being aired on television once.

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Dec 28, 2022

Every Confederate state, except one, was briefly an independent country between seceding and joining the Confederacy. The lone exception? Texas, who was immediately admitted upon seceding.

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Dec 28, 2022

The Davy Crockett was the smallest nuclear weapon ever produced, with a blast radius slightly smaller than Vatican City.

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Dec 28, 2022

Don't forget that Texas was independent earlier tho

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Apr 15, 2024

And since Texas was independent prior, all Confederate states were independent at some point in history

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Dec 28, 2022

Nunavut is both more northern, eastern, southern, and western than Alaska.

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Dec 29, 2022

Same with South Africa and Lesotho

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Feb 22, 2024

Looking at a map here and: no, it's not...

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Jan 4, 2023

Additional Fun Fact: More people speak English in Ireland than speak Polish and Irish combined!

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Jan 5, 2023

It’s more well known that Ireland mainly speaks English, though. It’s lesser known how diminished Irish has become.

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Jan 8, 2023

more people speak English in England than speak Polish in Ireland

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Jan 25, 2023

Perhaps #813 was inspired by "the Thing"?

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Apr 12, 2023

Footage translates as "métrage" in french.

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Jul 14, 2023

Marie Curie, her husband Pierre Curie, their daughter Irene Curie, Irene's husband Frederick Curie, husband of Marie Curie's second daughter, Henry Labouisse, all won nobel prize. Marie Curie even got Nobel twice.

Henry Labouisse won the Nobel while he was the director of UNICEF.

That's 6 nobel prizes for one family.