Guns N' Roses spent over 10 years and $13 million dollars making the album "Chinese Democracy". Released in 2008 to lukewarm reviews, it was the most expensive rock album ever produced.
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The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666
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The world's tenth tallest pyramid is a Bass Pro Shops store in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Two thousand people were killed in Halifax, Nova Scotia when a ship carrying high explosives blew up in 1917. At the time, it was the largest man-made explosion in history, only surpassed after the invention of nuclear weapons.
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According to some estimates, up to 90% of the adult male population of Paraguay was killed during the Paraguayan War, fought between 1864 and 1870.
Though, the Bass Pro Shops was originally going to be home for the Memphis Grizzlies. But, a flood ruined most of it and was then abandoned. Bass Pro Shops bought it a couple years later. Fact: It was built as a pyramid for a city with the same name in Egypt, (which used to be the capital of Ancient Egypt) Memphis.
Alas, that's not true. The Grizzlies DID play in the Pyramid along with the University of Memphis basketball team but part of the deal with the Grizzlies coming to Memphis was that they would need a new arena built and it has a non-competition clause. Once they built it every major event had to be there and nothing else could happen downtown the same time as a basketball game during regular season. That's a big part of the reason why the Pyramid sat empty and unused for so long. It also killed another venue in the city too. Honestly, I was kind of hoping they were gonna go with the indoor amusement park idea but NOPE...Bass Pro Shop.
This quiz has the most unforgiving spelling. Godfather, Godfather 2, The Godfather Part 2--none of these were accepted. This takes all the fun out of it.
How does someone accidentally click on an interesting facts page, doesn't realized that the page changed and comment on the very obvious interesting facts page.
I think the 1917 Halifax explosion was recently surpassed for the title of largest man-made non-nuclear explosion in history, by the explosion on the docks of Beirut.
2. "Congratulations" shouldn't be capitalised,
3. You only need 1 ellipses per break.
Otherwise, thanks for the award!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_pyramids
"It is still the largest man-made non-nuclear explosion in history."
(If it's true.)