Interesting Facts - Page 192

I thought that Pakistan is the worst football team but fortunately, that was wrong

From 2015 to 2020, South Sudan had a State that was called Lol

I never knew this, but the song “This Land is Your Land” is a socialist song, having lyrics which criticize private property. Woody Guthrie was apparently a supporter of American Socialism, and made the song against Irving Berlin’s song “God Bless America”. Today, the song is seen as patriotic and the lyrics about private property are omitted.

Yola is an extinct language formerly spoken in southeastern Ireland descended from Middle English and went extinct in the 19th century.

Example:

Yerstey w'had a baree, gist ing oor hoane

Yesterday we had a goal, just in our hand

A design involving the hammer and sickle was proposed for the NZ sixpence (first minted in 1933)

The rejected design looks like this

Thanks daily Wikipedia home page facts

Barbados 4-2 Grenada is considered one of the weirdest football/soocer matches ever played. Barbados and Grenada were in a group of 3, together with Puerto Rico and only one of the 3 could advance to the next round. Barbados was on last place and needed to beat Grenada with a Margin of 2 or more to advance. For most of the match, Barbados was leading with 2-0, which would have resulted in them advancing. In the 83rd minute however, Grenada scored which meant Barbados would have to score again in order to advance. This is where the twist comes to play. The match was played in 1994 when FIFA was testing out new tournament rules. One of them was that games could not end in a draw (even in group stages), and would be given extra time until a golden goal was scored, which would be worth 2 Goals. When Barbados couldnt score and they were running out of time, they delibarately scored an own goal so the match would go into extra time.

There was a short-lived country called the Republic of Maryland. Where was it? Liberia. L I B E R I A

It's illegal to bring a bear to the beach in Israel

March 3 is known as “What if Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day

Birds always have the right of way in Utah

Bolivia is the flattest country in the world.

The Guangdong Province in China has the biggest economy in China, about the same GDP as Australia!

The richest man in China just sells drinkable water.

a synonym for "fourth to last" is preantepenultimate

An exam on the teachings of the Ruhnama (turkmenistan's state propaganda book) was once part of the driving test. Nyýazow (leader of Turkmenistan at that time) also closed all hospitals outside of Aşgabat, saying that "if people are ill, they can come to Aşgabat

In 1943, the U.S. air force accidently bombed a courthouse in Oklahoma.

The Cadaver Synod was the trial of Pope Formosa, nine months after his death. Pope Stephen VI (or maybe VII) had Formosa's corpse exhumed, dressed, and brought to court, where he proceeded to accuse the dead pope of offenses against the Church. As Pope Stephen was both judge and accuser, the corpse was found guilty, reburied, exhumed a second time, had three fingers cut off, weights tied to the body, and was eventually thrown in a river.

The movie '8 Mile', starring Eminem and set in Detroit, is named after Eight Mile Road, a main street serving as a border between Detroit's white communities in the north and Detroit's black communities in its urban core. It is exactly eight miles from the city center.

Capybaras are native to France

If the population density of Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was applied to the entire world, the world's 8.1 billion people could fit into a territory the size of Rhode Island.

For fact #282, I think it should be stated that mantis shrimp have TWELVE color receptive cones.

After the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, the UN gave several tons of blue paint to a Belgian artist, so he could commemorate it by painting a line of boulders in the Sinai Desert blue.

Mauritania's entire railway is a single line that connects the center of their mining industry to the port city of Nouadhibou. Despite this, they have the heaviest and longest trains in the world, some up to 3 kilometers in length.

On Socotra there is a tree which produces cucumbers.

Much to the delight of grade schoolers, the largest lake Bolivia borders is Lake Titicaca. Less known is that its largest saltwater lake is Lake Poopo.

There are 1343 Cities in Russia named either Aleksandrovka, Berezovka, Bor, Kamenka, Klyuchi, Mikhaylovka, or Sosnovka. That's an average of 191 cities named each of those.

Coca cola uses 79 billion gallons of water every year to manufacture coke

The Devil's Advocate used to be a real position within the Catholic Church. They would argue against the canonization of saints in order to uncover their flaws.

There is a high chance that Saturn's rings did not exist yet when the dinosaurs went extinct.

Tashkent is further east than Dushanbe

The smallest Indian reservation in the United States is California's Likely Rancheria, reserved for the Pit River band. It is only 1.32 acres large, has no people, and serves as a tribal cemetery.

Every country in Europe has at least one point on land that is the same longitude as a part of Norway. The one exception? Iceland.

Excluding antarctica for obvious reasons, A and S are the only countries that have a country on every continent starting with that letter

Oceania: Australia, Samoa

Africa: Algeria, Seychelles

Asia: Armenia, Syria

NA: Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia

SA: Argentina, Suriname

Europe: Albania, Switzerland

In 2014 a musician named John Coolidge Adams was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music but lost out to another musician named John Luther Adams.

Andrew Johnson was drunk when he gave his inaugural address.

Nazi Germany was surprisingly progressive in the anti-tobacco movement.

In the Dublin Whiskey Fire of 1875, 13 deaths were recorded. None of them were from the fire, but all thirteen were from alcohol poisoning. People drank from undiluted whiskey running through the streets that in some places was 6 inches deep.

The Scarlet Letter was real???

Is there an entire alphabet of Scarlet Letter crimes? Reminds me of Sue Grafton's series of books