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Six Italian scientists were convicted of manslaughter for making inaccurate predictions about the L'Aquila earthquake which killed 308 people in 2009.

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The Soviet Union established a Jewish homeland in Far East Russia in 1928, called the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. At its peak in the 1940s, there were about 50,000 Jews living there, forming about 25% of the population. Today, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast still exists, but less than 1% of the population is Jewish.

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From 2002–2013, only 22 tenured teachers in California were fired for poor performance, a rate of 0.0008% per year.

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The cancer death rate in the United States has declined by 27% in the last twenty years. This is mostly due to reduction in smoking and advances in cancer treatment.

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There is a species of jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, which is theoretically immortal. It can revert from its adult jellyfish form, to its juvenile polyp form, and back an unlimited number of times without aging.

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Mar 28, 2021

Source for number 653

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Mar 27, 2021

The moon holds approximately 500,000 pounds of human trash including a gold olive branch, a flag kit, lunar orbiters, a hammer, a falcon feather, and 96 bags of human waste.

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Mar 27, 2021

Ancient Egyptians thought that god ate the sun every evening and gave birth to it every morning.

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Mar 6, 2022

No they didn't.

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Jun 11, 2022

there was a god that rolled the sun across the sky i think

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Mar 27, 2021

I believe I once suggested #652.

Anyways, when the Confederate Missourian government went into exile during the Civil War, they were seated in Texas.

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Mar 27, 2021

James Shields (I know you have a fact about him) was the senator from 3 states, the only American to do so (the states were Illinois, Missouri, and Minnesota).

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Mar 27, 2021

As of October 2020 Harrison Ruffin Tyler, born in 1928, became the last surviving grandchild of the 10th American president John Tyler who was born in 1790.

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Mar 28, 2021

There are more airplanes than cars in Cameron Park airport

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Mar 14, 2022

Been there!

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Mar 28, 2021

Switzerland is so neutral that it only joined the UN in 2002.

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Mar 28, 2021

Australia is part of the Eurovision Song Contest.

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May 25, 2021

so is israel and other non european countries

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Sep 7, 2021

*are

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Dec 6, 2022

*aer

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Mar 29, 2021

To the somewhat contrary of 653, South Carolina has the highest student suspension rate in America, with a staggering 10.29 percent

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_233.40.asp

Only Richard Nixon served two terms as Vice President and also was elected to two terms as President.

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Mar 29, 2021

Along with a 66-pound possum, U.S. president William Howard Taft was expecting a 50-pound mince pie for Thanksgiving, 1909. The pie never came though. Apparently, someone had stolen the pie en route to the White House. Instead, by Christmas, a 92-pound pie was sent to him, escorted by the armed forces.

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Mar 29, 2021

Source is: Everything on the Web

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Mar 29, 2021

Combination of Interesting quotes 87 and 4 once 4 is eliminated, 87 gets eliminated too, and this becomes legit.

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Mar 30, 2021

Why... even the New York times and the Washington Post have articles about it :)

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Mar 30, 2021

Ok I'm convinced

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Mar 30, 2021

Not a 66 pound possum, a 26 pound one

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Aug 11, 2023

That's a terrible source.

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Mar 31, 2021

Yup, 655 is immortal, unless something eats it.

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Mar 31, 2021

What about immortal in the predators belly?

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Mar 31, 2021

Doesn't work that way :)

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Mar 31, 2021

5 (2 if you don't include the modern-day countries) Countries had flags that only had 1 color:

White - France (1815-1830) and the Umayyad Caliphate (661-750)

Black - The Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258) and Afghanistan (1880-1901)

Green - Libya (1977-2011)

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Mar 31, 2021

Texas has cities named Houston, Austin, and Burleson. Texas also has a Houston County, a Austin County, and a Burleson County. None of those 3 cities are in those 3 counties.

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Apr 14, 2021

need this

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Apr 3, 2021

i was bored so i just came here

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Dec 10, 2021

I was bored so I went to Thailand.

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Feb 22, 2022

I was bored so I watched YouTube videos I'm not interested in and had a minor identity crisis in the wee hours of the night

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Feb 26, 2026

I was bored so I read these comments.

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Aug 17, 2022

I was bored so I came to watch YouTube videos that aren’t funny or good to me, then I got the urge to kick my pikachu hard in the face, then I went to cook me a nice ol’ hotdog

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Aug 8, 2022

I would imagine that earlier screening and detection would also play into #654. Are there statistics that indicate if that's a factor?

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Sep 7, 2023

The judge and jury that convicted the Italian scientists should burn in hell. That has to be the most unjust decision I've ever heard rendered.

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Aug 14, 2024

655 I'm surprised the jellyfish hasn't been hasn't been marketed to us as an anti-aging miracle.

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Oct 7, 2025

I believe #651 needs a slight re-wording. While the scientists were originally convicted in 2012, the convictions were overturned on appeal in 2014.