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The President of Nintendo of America is named Doug Bowser.

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As the crow flies, Atlanta is closer to Canada than it is to Miami.

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There are no randomized controlled studies that show that parachutes are effective at saving the lives of people who jump out of planes.

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Penicillin was discovered in 1928, but it wasn't widely used at first because it was difficult to produce in useful quantities. This changed in 1941 when a new strain of penicillin was discovered on a moldy cantaloupe at a Peoria farmer's market.

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Nobel Prizes have been given to many undeserving people, but few less deserving than António Egas Moniz who invented the lobotomy, a brutal and unscientific procedure that mentally crippled a large percentage of its victims.

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Level 61

Apr 22, 2020

Iraq is the largest coastal country without an island in the ocean

Level 44

Apr 23, 2020

Coffee is made from coffee beans. But the thing is, coffee beans are seeds

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Level 65

Sep 1, 2020

So is coffee fruit juice?

Level 28

Apr 15, 2024

yes.

Level 59

Apr 23, 2020

How about this? In Tennessee you can get to any of its border states by going south. By which I mean there's a place in Tennessee where you can go directly south and get to Kentucky, same with all other 7 border states. This is also true of Kentucky, New York, Virginia, Arkansas, & North Carolina. The most impressive ones though are Tennessee & Kentucky. They both work.

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Apr 24, 2020

Texas also works because of the red river.

Level 59

May 5, 2020

Of all states with borders to at least 4 other states/nations, this is true of: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Level 61

Sep 20, 2021

Michigan, too, if we're counting other nations in the 4 borders thing.

Level 44

Apr 24, 2020

Printers make near-invisible yellow dots on paper to mark counterfeit bills. To this day, only one line of dots' purpose still remains to be found. This idea was made by Xerox when the government was worried about people using their printers to print counterfeits.

Level 28

Apr 15, 2024

Smart

Level 78

Apr 26, 2020

Doug Bowser on fans joking about his name: "It’s a signal to me that we have an amazing, passionate following, and our fans are embracing it. It’s ironic that we share the same name, and there are times when it’ll be fun and we’ll play with it, but we’re two very, very different characters. I’m not tired of it at all though." Fictional Bowser may be a villain, but real Bowser sounds downright creepy.

Level 44

Apr 27, 2020

A man nicknamed Lawnchair Larry flew to 16,000+ Feet on a lawn chair with weather balloons strapped to it

Level 44

Apr 27, 2020

If you want proof here:

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters

Level 84

Apr 30, 2020

There's a Pretty Good video on the topic, done by the great Jon Bois.

It even includes parts of the communication between Larry and ground control (his girlfriend), recorded by REACT... which has been uploaded by Mark Barry (considered by Jon Bois the best source of the flight).

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May 1, 2020

There is also a video on Lawnchair Larry by Half as Interesting

Level 40

May 22, 2023

Really? A Half As Interesting video that I haven't heard of??

Level 84

May 4, 2020

Yes, but, ehh... I love Sam and all... I'm suscribed to both Wendover Productions and HAI... I think his video on F1 logistics is much, much better than F1's own video on the same topic...

But, Jon's video beats Sam's one soooo badly it could be arrested for assault and battery. (Also, Jon did his well before Sam)

Level 53

Jan 3, 2022

I agree.

Level 53

Jan 3, 2022

I definitely Flew.

Level 44

Apr 27, 2020

Imagine a night theme

Level 68

May 20, 2020

I need that.

Level 44

Apr 27, 2020

In 2002, during the Moscow theatre hostage crisis, the Spetsnaz (Russian Special Forces Unit) used an undisclosed gas, not only killing all 40 attackers but also up to 204 hostages, and even more injured

Level 56

Nov 15, 2021

Yeah, and because the gas was a military secret they refused to tell the doctors it's recipe and how to cure it. Man do I love the current government!

Level 56

Nov 15, 2021

Not only that, but the Chechen terrorists were able to make it into the very center of Moscow at night in an armoured military vehicle

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Apr 28, 2020

It's illegal to have a donkey inside a bathtub in Florida

Level 61

Sep 20, 2021

Because it's Florida, this law was necessary.

Level 53

Jan 3, 2022

This is also true for several other states, including parts of Georgia and Arizona.

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Apr 15, 2024

Aww,I wanted to put one in there

Level 75

Apr 28, 2020

Interesting fact suggeston:

A tiny sliver of Michigan is east of parts of South Carolina.

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Jun 12, 2020

443:........ I have jumped out of a plane 50 times and a parachute saved my life every time!

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Nov 6, 2020

That's not what "randomized" mean.

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Nov 14, 2020

Well, a truly randomized study would have a bunch of people jumping out of planes not knowing whether there is a parachute in their pack or not and then seeing which ones survive.

Seems like it would probably violate some kinda ethics code.

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Jan 12, 2024

But have there been studies on things like crash test dummies? Are experiments too dangerous for a human control group just simply never carried out? Surely there are ways round it?

Level 61

Sep 20, 2021

Yup, there's a reason there's no control group for that one.

Level 71

Sep 21, 2021

It would make a great video though!

Level 45

Jul 13, 2020

Interesting fact:

In Ohio, it is legal to buy and sell fireworks, but you have to sign a waiver that you will take them out of state to set them off.

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Nov 1, 2020

In New York, it is illegal to sell a haunted house without telling the owner

Level 69

Nov 14, 2020

Is that the actual wording of the judge's ruling?

I believe this is based on a case where a house was reported to be haunted in a publication (Life magazine maybe?) and the buyer was not aware of this, so the judge ruled that the seller should have disclosed this information because of the property's notoriety.

If you think your house is haunted and don't tell anybody and then sell it, I don't think this would contravene any law.

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Dec 30, 2020

What does “when the crow flies” mean?

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Mar 7, 2021

In a straight line (as in, not taking roads or going around obstacles like mountains for example). When we walk, we have to consider hills and mountains and rivers and things that hinder our ability to go straight. If we could fly like a crow, then obviously we could go in a straight line. The fact means that if we flew straight from Atlanta to Canada like a crow, it would be shorter than flying straight from Atlanta to Miami.

Level 65

Mar 7, 2021

I see

Level 54

Apr 4, 2021

The expression is, "as the crow flies." On the GPS on my phone, when I put in an address, the first number that comes up is the mileage from where I am to where I want to go, "as the crow flies." When I select Navigate, the number goes up because it will show how long and how far it will take to drive to a location. For example, I live in Omaha,NE. When I want to go to Minneapolis, MN and add that to my GPS, the first number I get is 300 miles, as the crow flies. When I click Navigate, the number jumps to 400 miles because I need to use roads to get there.

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Oct 22, 2023

443 is true because the only way you could disprove that parachutes save lives is to test what happens when people jump out of a mid-air plane without a parachute.

Any volunteers?

Level 28

Apr 15, 2024

South Korea has the 3rd most (or maybe 2nd) Starbucks location out of any nation in the world