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Interesting Facts Quiz #7

Have you been paying attention to JetPunk's interesting facts? Prove your knowledge by filling in the blanks.
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Last updated: January 22, 2023
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First submittedJanuary 22, 2023
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Coca-Cola used to contain _______
Cocaine
_____ burns more coal than the rest of the world combined
China
About one in every 5000 ______s is a four-leaf ______
Clover
Lake ______ contains about 22% of all the fresh surface water in the world
Baikal
There are 277 known meteorites on Earth that originally came from ____ but none
that came from Venus
Mars
The space _______ cost about $1 billion for every time it was launched
Shuttle
In 1979–1980, the Hunt brothers from Texas tried to corner the ______ market
by buying all the ______ in the world
Silver
Thomas Edison built houses which were made entirely from one single pour of ________
Concrete
Eight of nine sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices studied law at either Harvard or ____
Yale
The legend of the ______ may have arisen when people discovered skeletons
of woolly mammoths, which appear to have one giant eye socket in the middle of the face
Cyclops
In the early 1900s, only 1% of Americans were _____. Today, it's around 36%.
Obese
Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues
from performances of The __________
Nutcracker
Hawaiian _____ was invented in Canada
Pizza
Before _______ was added to salt, it was common for people from inland areas to have goiters
Iodine
Ferrari is the third most common family name in Italy. It's the Italian equivalent of _____.
Smith
About 35% of marriages in Afghanistan are between first _______
Cousins
What a difference a century makes. Between 1919–2019, the number of marriages in England
and Wales declined by 40%, but the number of ________ increased by 6,400%.
Divorces
Saint Lucia is the only country named after a _____
Woman
The word _______ comes from films being measured in feet in early filmmaking
Footage
Over a fifth of the calories consumed by humans are from ____
Rice
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Level 66
Jan 24, 2023
First. I know, it's quite the accomplishment.
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Level 90
Jan 24, 2023
I tried "Feeture" for the second-to-last one...
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Level 65
Jan 24, 2023
Needs more time
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Level 79
Jan 25, 2023
Certainly does
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Level 62
Jan 25, 2023
The Ferrari question is a bit american-centered. I got it right, but maybe the word american could be added
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Level 70
Jan 25, 2023
I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Ferrari comes from the noun "ferraio" which literally means "(black)smith", it's an occupational last name that's the exact analog of the English language last name "Smith".
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Level 84
Jan 25, 2023
Also, as written the question could be interpreted as 'what's the third most common name in the US?'
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Level 66
Jan 25, 2023
There is nothing American about the clue.
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Level 76
Jan 26, 2023
The US is not the only country that speaks English. Your comment here disregards other English-speaking countries way more than the quiz itself does.
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Level 67
Jan 25, 2023
Interesting
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Level 72
Jan 26, 2023
So, out of pure desperation I tried "fat" for the very last clue and got the one about the 1% of the Americans instead. :D
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Level 75
Jan 1, 2024
For the question about the Hunt brothers, I tried 'pizza' in similar desperation.
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Level 68
Jan 30, 2023
St Lucia is the only country that's named after a *real-life* woman. Ireland (known as "Éire" in Irish) is named after the fictional goddess Ériu.
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Level 75
Feb 1, 2023
The calories question is a bit misleading since it's not true for any human but presumably for all humans combined. Isn't then a lot also from corn and/or wheat?
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Level 65
Feb 1, 2023
Given the massive population of Asia, I assume rice is the most consumed.
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Level 66
Feb 1, 2023
Corn is an American thing and not a big part of diets globally
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Level 65
Mar 4, 2024
Thought it could be sugar
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Level 51
Feb 1, 2023
why isn't female a correct answear in saint lucia question?
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Level ∞
Feb 1, 2023
That will work now.
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Level 54
Feb 1, 2023
"lady" should be accepted too
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Level 54
Feb 1, 2023
would be better if fact no. is also given
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Level 41
Feb 1, 2023
I typed "fat" for the calorie one but I answered the obesity question
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Level 66
Feb 1, 2023
Me too!

I feel the calorie question could be worded better as it's not necessarily clear. Maybe something along the lines of, "Over a fifth of the world's total calorie consumption comes from ___"

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Level 58
Feb 1, 2023
It’s awesome to see that some of my proposed facts are showing up here
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Level 59
Feb 1, 2023
You had an entire page almost filled with your facts haha
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Level 52
Feb 1, 2023
Cyclops aren't legends, they're myths.
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Level 84
Feb 3, 2023
The Hunt brothers drove the price of silver up to over $50/oz in ~1980. You could sell a silver quarter to a coin dealer/jeweler for $4.50; Franklin or Walking Liberty half dollars would get you $9.00 apiece; and silver dollars started at $22.00, regardless of condition or mintage.
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Level 69
Feb 4, 2023
I couldn't get past the Hunt brothers maybe had something to do with ketchup as in Hunt's. I kept trying variations of tomatoes or spices. I would have guessed a long time before I tried silver!
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Level 68
Sep 29, 2023
I puzzled for SO long on the 1% / 36% one. I knew it would be obvious when it appeared, but I was guessing things all over the place. If someone wants to do one of those funky sociology experiments where they ask random people to fill in the blanks on this one, it would probably be fascinating.
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Level 51
Feb 12, 2024
The Hunt brothers didn't try to buy up all the silver in the world. That's obviously impossible. They bought enough so that they could control the market. Apparently at most they had about one third of the supply not held by governments