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Interesting Facts - Page 129
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The western world isn't getting better at making things. Productivity in the U.S. has barely increased for 20 years. In some western countries, such as Spain and Italy, productivity has actually fallen considerably.
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The American Library Association keeps a famous list of "banned books". Their criteria for inclusion is a little odd. When a patron requests a book be removed from the library, it is counted as a "banned book", even if the library doesn't remove it. Meanwhile, books that the library chooses to remove for political reasons are not counted as banned.
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At least 2.5% of adults in East Germany were informants for the Stasi, East Germany's secret police.
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The B-36 Convair was a U.S. bomber plane so massive that is was designed to carry up to four small fighter planes inside it.
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The B-52 Stratofortress is an American bomber plane that first entered service in 1955. It is expected to remain in service into the 2050s, one century after its initial launch.
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Sometimes I don’t even finish my homework, if I read a book, nope, playing my iPad
Now compare that with what you think of Toronto.
However, it is true that QE2 never wears the same outfit in public more than once, except on rare occasions where it is deliberately planned.
I'm guessing it's a lot higher than 60% though since humans and plants share about 50% of our genes.
Perhaps you were thinking of stegosaurus?
https://www.203challenges.com/25-geography-facts-that-are-unbelievable-but-true/
not really...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_known_prime_number!
1. 17 or 18 Roman emperors were born in the territory of modern day Serbia (that's more than 20% of all Roman emperors).
2. Serbian emperor Dušan the Mighty was one of the tallest monarchs in history with height of 214 cm (based on measurments of his skeleton). He had special guard (mostly consisted of German mercenaries) and one of the conditions of joining that guard, was to be taller than 2 meters (just imagine his enemies seeing those giants coming toward them, considering that average height in that era was about 170 cm). Only his standard-bearer was taller than him, and there is the story saying that that man was so strong, that he held a flag of 40 kg in one hand, and fight with the sword in other.
4. Serbia is home to a mountain which is shaped like a pyramid – Mount Rtanj. Nobody is sure why it is this shape, but there are a few theories that it is an alien mothership that landed thousands of years in the past.
(Also, in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be found similar "pyramids" - Bosnian pyramids)
5. The world’s first vampire? Do you think it’s Dracula? Wrong! The first vampire was Petar Blagojević, from Serbia.
Also word "vampire" comes form Serbia.
6. The most expensive cheese in the world is made from donkey milk in Serbia, called Pule. It costs $576 for 1lb of cheese!
P.S. And the other Balkan countries are full of mind-blowing facts too.
However, those thing I mentioned before are pretty true.
Foremost, in the year 1991, one of the bishops of Serbian Orthodox church led the comission which measured his remains, which are very good preserved in Saint Mark's church in Belgrade, and they determined that his height was 214 cm or 215 cm.
His personal guard was composed from 101 people higher than 2 meters. Because the height was the condition, his guard was mostly composed from Germans, Catalans,...
Also, about his standard-bearer, he was Swede, by some sources, and his flag is still perserved in Serbian monastery Hilandar on Mount Athos. For this claims, historical documents exist, but they are usualy on old Serbian or Greek, and hard or impossible to find on internet.
This guy on Facebook (should be trustworthy) has explained it pretty good. I'll put links in answer.
Less important one: https://www.facebook.com/Meet.the.Serbs/photos/a.10150723774339968.502315.53552959967/10151614171399968/?type=1&theater
Problem with measuring his heights was that it happened in 1991, year when there was no internet in Serbia and that time was also significant because of the beginning of Yugoslav wars, so no one really cared much about this.
Only sources I can give you, are these newspaper articles from mid 2010s. "Kurir" and "Blic" are famous Serbian newspapers (like The Daily Telegraph or The Sun in UK), so they should be reliable. It is written in Serbian, but should be easy translatable in English by Google Translate.
Kurir: https://www.kurir.rs/zabava/pop-kultura/3031393/dusan-silni-bio-visok-214-metara-zastrasujuc-izgled-cara-srba-grka-i-bugara
Blic: https://sport.blic.rs/kosarka/domaca-kosarka-i-aba/car-dusan-silni-bi-vladao-i-kosarkom/bjht0pk
Good article about his reign (in English): https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/dusan-mighty-0014139
A few years ago, Google got in trouble for saying things like the Holocaust wasn't real.
But it's really not that hard to grow a cubic watermelon. One of the pictures shows a cubic watermelon with a price tag of 3.9€ per kilo, making it much cheaper than the neighboring figs at 15€ per kilo, although quite a bit more expensive than normal watermelon.