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Today, the level of oxygen in the atmosphere is about 21%. Three hundred million years ago it reached a peak of 35%. Be thankful it didn't get much higher. At 43% oxygen, a lightning strike could have ignited the entire atmosphere.

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The English seaside resort of Blackpool was left mostly unscathed by bombing during the Blitz. Documents have suggested that Hitler wanted it preserved as a place for recreation once Germany invaded and conquered England.

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Every one knows the percent sign (%), which means per hundred. But there are also signs for per thousand (‰) and per ten thousand (‱).

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The number 10,000 is known as a "myriad".

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The Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk has a coat of arms that looks like this:

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Aug 9, 2020

Thanks to @kogatora for 463 and 464.

Level 71

Aug 10, 2020

Don't know if this has been done yet as a fact... but "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence.

Level 68

Aug 14, 2020

How?

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Level 63

Aug 18, 2020

It means Buffalo the Buffalo from Buffalo, New York is bullying Buffalo the Buffalo also from Buffalo, New York who is bullying Buffalo the Buffalo from Buffalo New York.

Level 76

Sep 1, 2020

@CambodianQuizzer that didn't make it any clearer for me. Apparently it's "The buffaloes from Buffalo, that are bullied by (other) buffaloes from Buffalo, bully (other) buffaloes from Buffalo. I used 'buffaloes' to make it clear it's a plural, but 'buffalo' is also an accepted plural.

So the structure is the same as "(The) Chicago cats (the) Seattle dogs bully bully London mice". But to me it sounds like it really needs the definitive articles.

Level 70

Oct 17, 2020

Police police, police police police police, police police.

Level 84

Aug 13, 2020

That coat of arms kicks butts any day of the week.

Level 41

Aug 18, 2021

I deduce that the atom the bear is splitting must be iron ("železo" meaning iron in my native Czech, a Slavic language quite closely related to Russian).

Level 66

Mar 7, 2023

The Russian word for iron is pronounced similarly but the atom is probably plutonium, as Zheleznogorsk was a major plutonium producer during the cold war.

Level 63

Aug 18, 2020

The logo for the town of Zheleznogorsk is amazing.

Level 59

Aug 19, 2020

What!? I didn't know there were signs for those...

Level 71

Aug 27, 2020

462: The North Railway Station area was bombed and the poorest area around Blackpool. People in a 'Doss house' (night-time sleeping rooms) were killed. Areas of tomato growing glasshouses were also bombed. (must have looked like factories)

Level 76

Aug 28, 2020

Regarding 461, a lightning strike wouldn’t ignite the ENTIRE atmosphere, right?

Level 68

Sep 3, 2020

Apparently Hitler also protected the Midland Hotel, Manchester. And he wanted this to be his residence if/ when he conquered England.

Level 71

Jan 25, 2021

Not bad going to miss one little hotel :o)...... as the German Luftwaffe bombed at night, from thousands of feet up, unloading 20+ bombs at a time. The worst few nights were the Christmas Blitz of Sunday 22 December to Tuesday 24 December 1940. On the first night 270 aircraft released 272 tons of high explosive and 1,032 incendiary bombs. On the next night 171 aircraft dropped another 195 tons of high explosive and 893 incendiaries on central Manchester and Salford.

Level 82

Sep 7, 2020

pretty cool coat of arms

Level 46

Sep 14, 2020

How do you contribute facts to this page?

Level 56

Dec 4, 2020

just comment

Level 61

Sep 27, 2020

thats my screensaver :D

Level 37

Oct 7, 2020

Myanmar is bigger than Norway and Sweden Combined, with still some space left for Finland. :D Check this Website: thetruesize.com

Level 54

Oct 21, 2020

I would like to know what the bear is cracking open and how he/she got entangled in two hoola hoops?

Level 89

Nov 26, 2020

It's the Russian bear splitting the atom.

Either the bear is made up of ridiculously small atoms or that big atom could be part of a bear stretching from here to the nearest star.

Level 79

Dec 18, 2020

You haven't seen a model of an atom before?

Level 41

Apr 9, 2023

made me laugh (either way)

Level 89

Jan 21, 2021

The bear is also in for a very, very sudden surprise when he cracks that little morsel.

Level 45

Jan 5, 2021

Poland has no land Heath

Level 42

Jan 22, 2021

So is the Zheleznogorsk bear splitting an atom or ripping open a hockey helmet?

Level 39

Jul 8, 2021

Me: Do towns have coat of arms?

Level 67

Sep 7, 2021

Some do, some have flags as well.

Level 59

Dec 6, 2021

Ooh, myriad, nice.

Level 77

Sep 18, 2022

I've been to Zhelznogorsk a few times. It's the home of their first plutonium production reactor which is now shut down per the Plutonium Production Reactor Agreement.

A nice little town. The folks there have always been very hospitable.

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Mar 12, 2023

1. I peered at the Wikipedia piece of a city called Zelenogorsk. It possesses a similar coat of arms, but different, and is located in southeast central Russia. Would it be the same town?

2. Do I sound pretentious?