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Interesting Facts - Page 106
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The age at which a person has the lowest risk of dying is ten years old. A ten year old in the U.S. has only a .006% chance of dying.
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If you are a 40 year old man in the U.S., you have about a 0.224% chance of dying during the year. This means you have a 1 in a million chance of dying every 4 hours, and a 1 in a billion chance of dying every 14 seconds!
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Supposedly, in the ancient Greek city of Locris, a speaker proposing a law was required to stand with a noose around his neck. If the speaker failed to persuade the voters to pass the law he was hanged on the spot.
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Penguins only live in the Southern Hemisphere and Galapagos Islands. But there was once a penguin-like bird that lived in the Northern Hemisphere known as the Great Auk. This is an example of "convergent evolution", where unrelated species evolve to look and act the same to fill a similar ecological niche. Sadly, the Great Auk was driven to extinction by humans in 1844.
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The U.S. State Department once mixed up the countries of Mauritius and Mauritania. This resulted in Richard Nixon offering help in "desert farming" to Mauritius, a country which receives more than plentiful amount of rainfall.
47 Comments
svelte
+4
Level 50
Nov 17, 2020
The leader of Turkmenistan recently built a 19 foot tall statue of his favorite dog breed.
SirPhilippines
+1
Level 73
Nov 18, 2020
what is it?
svelte
+2
Level 50
Dec 1, 2020
An Alabai
smoceany
+17
Level 51
Jun 15, 2021
where were you at 12:40 saturday
camus
+8
Level 80
Nov 23, 2020
Not only that but it's gold. And this is how Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow holds a dog.
SirPhilippines
+18
Level 73
Nov 24, 2020
I just love Putin in the backround.
ShievaAndGolly
+2
Level 60
Apr 25, 2022
poor puppy
ooftownroad
+2
Level 70
Feb 2, 2021
he a good boi
Geographystar
+11
Level 68
Nov 19, 2020
Contrary to popular opinion, Pennsylvania was not named after it's founder, William Penn. When it came time to name the colony, lots of people wanted to name it Pennsylvania, but William Penn didn't want it to be named after him. As a compromise, the colony was named after William Penn's father, an admiral in the English navy during the English civil war, also named William Penn.
angrobper14
+16
Level 86
Mar 16, 2021
So, basically, Pennsylvania is named after William Penn... just not that William Penn.
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Mar 24, 2021
Maybe you're just always reading it wrong. Actually they're always meaning the father, but you're interpreting something based on your assumption of common stupidity.
JetPunker180
+5
Level 54
Nov 20, 2020
The old name of Topeka was Google.
SirPhilippines
+10
Level 73
Nov 20, 2020
...and the old name for Google is BackRub. So Topeka is BackRub, huh?
FlyingG
+7
Level 68
Nov 22, 2020
Hot Springs, New Mexico changed it's name to Truth or Consequences because of a TV show.
ChineseChen
+1
Level 70
Nov 25, 2020
Yup. Pandora49 was obsessed with it last year.
Quizmaster
+12
Level ∞
Dec 5, 2020
In case people are curious, this is not actually true. It was an April Fool's day joke and never official. Back in 2010, Topeka was excited about Google's proposed high speed internet project: Google Fiber. Unfortunately for Topeka, that project has now been discontinued, as have so many other Google projects throughout the years.
bentshaggyoil
+3
Level 61
Jan 2, 2023
It was once Topekachu, though.
NV1
+3
Level 55
Nov 20, 2020
Kansas's capital is BackRub
JetPunker180
+1
Level 54
Nov 20, 2020
what a mind puzzle?
JetPunker180
+2
Level 54
Nov 20, 2020
means old name of Topeka was google an old name of Google is backrub and backrub is capital of Kansas
JetPunker180
+5
Level 54
Nov 20, 2020
ok stands for oll korrect.
bentshaggyoil
+1
Level 61
Jan 2, 2023
stonks
SiloTheatrix
+1
Level 51
Jan 9, 2023
where's that from?
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Jul 20, 2023
Source
Cbear8
+10
Level 58
Nov 20, 2020
I think this is interesting, "Australia is wider than Pluto."
AlphaBetaGamma
+3
Level 26
Nov 22, 2020
Massachusetts, the state which supports the Democratic Party the most, has a Republican Governor.
NV1
+1
Level 55
Nov 22, 2020
Yeah, this is the same with democratic Vermont, and Maryland. But republican states like Kentucky and Louisiana have democratic governors.
morcaca
+1
Level 59
Dec 3, 2020
Montana had Steve Bullock for a while as well.
JetPunker180
+4
Level 54
Nov 29, 2020
The entire world population could fit inside Los Angeles.
Baxtergrad
+7
Level 51
Nov 29, 2020
The entire world population could fit inside my neighborhood, but it would be extremely cramped.
Quizmaster
+16
Level ∞
Dec 5, 2020
If all the people in the world were compressed to the density of a neutron star, they could fit into a golf ball.
Geographystar
+4
Level 68
Nov 30, 2020
If it was in Minecraft, New York City and Los Angeles would be over 3.9 million blocks away.
Geographystar
+3
Level 68
Nov 30, 2020
And Vatican City would only be 900 blocks by 750 blocks.
Geographystar
+2
Level 68
Nov 30, 2020
And Rhode Island would be about 67,000 blocks by 42,000 blocks.
gewehr6628
+2
Level 47
May 11, 2021
and if i did the math right, russia would be about 10640982528 square blocks
ilikegeography18
+3
Level 29
May 10, 2022
Size by blocks would technically also have to include the mapping: the mountains, the buildings, etc.
SiloTheatrix
+3
Level 51
Jan 9, 2023
yes but is that included on 2d maps?
Geographystar
+4
Level 68
Nov 30, 2020
In 1960 Nevada had only 10% of the population it has today. Also in 1960 Nevada had less people than every state except Alaska, and in 1950 it had the smallest population.
PeregrineFalcon
+4
Level 79
Jan 6, 2021
Pedantic, but 529 is not entirely true: there are Galapagos penguin populations just barely north of the equator. Maybe that's another interesting fact
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 6, 2021
Okay
Queefola
+2
Level 41
May 7, 2021
What is the risk percentage of a 27 year old dying?
EytanMelech
+2
Level 66
Sep 11, 2021
I am unsure about that, but I'm actually curious of what the most common cause of death for a 40 year old man is. The USA is abnormally obese, so I'm wondering how significantly that chance is decreased of dying if someone isn't obese/has diabetes.
nopassword
+1
Level 61
Jun 13, 2025
overdose.
piR
+4
Level 53
Feb 7, 2022
The ancient city concerned by the fact 528 was actually Epizephyrian Locris, today Locri in Calabria, maybe it could be good to clarify that because I had trouble finding it
nopassword
+1
Level 61
Jun 13, 2025
+ 1
SpencerGT
+1
Level 68
Feb 26, 2022
King county in Washington changed who it was named after after it discovered (or rather, got disgusted with the fact that) its original namesake owned slaves.
Pontiac
+1
Level 62
Feb 24, 2025
I want the Great Auk to come back!
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