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Can you guess those 20 randomly selected interesting facts from the 'Interesting Facts' page?
answer must correspond to the yellow box
as of November 23, 2019, there are 363 possible answers
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Last updated: November 24, 2019
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Interesting Fact
244
Sharks have existed on this planet longer than trees have.
351
People used to be bad at running the marathon. The gold medalist at the 1948 Olympics won with a time of
2:34:51, a time regularly bested by modern high school athletes.
313
The Basque language, spoken in parts of Spain and France, is not closely related to any other known language.
73
The official name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.
4
Lake Baikal is both the deepest and the oldest lake in the world.
219
During WWI, French soldiers were issued a wine ration called a pinard.
At its highest level, it could amount to one bottle of wine per day.
163
CBGB, in New York City, is a music club whose name stands for "country, bluegrass, and blues".
Ironically, it was punk music that made the club famous.
28
"The Shawshank Redemption" is based on a story by Stephen King.
250
Turkeys can reproduce asexually. However, the offspring are generally not robust.
55
There are exactly zero documented cases of a child being poisoned by Halloween candy from trick-or-treating.
193
"Coolth" is a word. It means the opposite of warmth.
266
China only has one time zone. This means that the sun can rise 3 hours earlier
in the eastern part of the country than in the west.
119
British author Evelyn Waugh was married to a woman whose name was also Evelyn.
150
Tigers in the Sundarbans region of India and Bangladesh have been known to hunt and kill humans.
Until recently, it is estimated that these tigers got 3% of their calories from eating humans.
204
Ancient Greek athletes held light weights in their hands when doing the long jump. This allowed them
to more effectively use the momentum of their arms, adding distance to their jumps.
102
In biology, a chimera is an organism whose cells don't all have the same DNA.
This can happen in humans, and can result in a person having two different blood types.
115
The village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, in Wales, lengthened its name to Llanfair-
pwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch for promotional purposes in the 1860s.
319
Developed by Germany during WWII, the V-2 rocket was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
It was ruinously expensive and largely pointless. In fact, more people died building V-2 rockets than died
when the bombs exploded over their targets in Allied countries.
228
Pedro López is a serial killer known as the "Monster of the Andes". He killed at least 53 people and as possibly
as many as 300. Due to sentencing restrictions, he was released after only 14 years in Ecuadorian prison.
He was then committed to a Colombian insane asylum but was let go after 1 year.
His current whereabouts are unknown.
137
Martin Van Buren was the only U.S. president whos first language was not English. He grew up speaking Dutch.
ZooTuber3000
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Aug 2, 2021
Cool! Interesting to take multiple times, due to the many different potential answers. I just have a question: in a quiz, how can you make the answer appear in the blank spot?
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