Interesting Facts Page 1

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Here are thirty interesting facts

1.The first oranges weren't orange they were green.

2.The Nile came from the greek name Neilos.

3.Nauru is 21 square kilometres.

4.Orcspel or sporcle was founded by Matt Ramme.

5.The initials JRR in the author JRR Tolkien stand for John Ronald Ruel.

6.The word robot comes from Czech

7.Hawaii is moving nearer to Alaska every year.

8.The longest bridge is in China.

9.The Sahara desert is larger than the USA.

10.The oldest volcano is in Brazil.

11.Jacques Chirac was one day the least known french president.

12.Rhode Island's full name contains Providence plantations which Rhode Island is the island that it sits on.

13. There are zero rivers in Saudi Arabia.

14.The Sahara Desert was snowing down on the 18th February 1979.

15.If a glass breaks it's cracks can move up to 3000 miles per hour.

16.8 Empire state buildings could fit into a deep ocean.

17.Eating cheese will help neutralise acids

18.The technique of fingerprinting is known as dactyloscopy

19.Johnny Appleseed made fruits but they were not for eating.

20.Scotland has over 400 words for snow

21.Peanuts are actually not nuts. They are legumes.

22.Octopi lay 56000 eggs at a time.

23.The man with the deepest voice can make sounds that humans can't hear.

24.The first Mcdonalds drive through was opened in Arizona in 1975.

25.Bananas grow upside down.

26.Volcanoes were on the moon when the dinosaurs ruled.

27.A man called T.S Elliot wore makeup.

28.You can thank greeks for Xmas.

29.US president Theodore Roosevelt had a pet hyena.

30.One US state capital doesn't have a Mcdonalds.

Request some facts in the comments. Bye.

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Level 44
Dec 20, 2020
Interesting
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Level 42
Dec 27, 2020
What was the most interesting?
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Level 68
Dec 20, 2020
Some of these seem to be taken from the comments section of the interesting facts pages. If so, can you credit who wrote them?
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Level 42
Dec 20, 2020
I have requested some of these. That's what
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Level 42
Dec 20, 2020
Massive thanks to NeilVedwan for fact 9 and MG17 for 8 and 10
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Level 51
Dec 20, 2020
Your welcome! I meant contiguous U.S.
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Level 51
Dec 20, 2020
THE CONTIGUOUS
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Level 51
Dec 20, 2020
interesting facts!
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Level 43
Dec 20, 2020
You’re welcome! Happy to see my facts :)
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Level 65
Dec 20, 2020
NO NOT ORCSPEL
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Level 50
Aug 25, 2022
I think it’s a great website
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Level 54
Dec 20, 2020
Wow Arabic has over 900 hundred words for sword
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Level 42
Dec 21, 2020
Can you edit that comment
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Level 65
Feb 16, 2021
Are these well sourced?
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Level 54
Feb 22, 2022
No
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Level 30
May 4, 2022
Vatican City, Vatican City is not the least populated capital city. It's actually Ngerulmud, Palau.