Interesting Facts - Page 154

Fact: If an elephants' mate dies, the other one can die of, "broken heart syndrome."

Fact: if you go 100 million light years away from earth, then point a telescope to earth (which is impossible but lets theoretically say you can see it) you would still see dinosaurs.

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Fun Fact: Lake Zaysan in Kazakhstan might be older than Lake Baikal, and people are destroying it.

I don’t remember if this fact has been placed here but I’ll give it. John Wilkes Booth’s brother Edwin Booth saved Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert from being run over by a train.

In the mid-1800s, when the Kingdom of Sardinia was unifying Italy, the last state left to conquer to unify the peninsula was the Papal States, headquartered at Rome and ruled by the Pope. As the Italians closed in on Rome, Pope Pius IX decreed that whichever Italian gave the order to conquer Rome would be excommunicated by the Church. To solve this problem, King Vittorio Emmanuel of Italy told a Jewish General to give the order. Since Catholic law didn't apply to him, the Pope could do nothing, and Rome fell to Italy.

Fun fact-The Nigerian film industry is known as “Nollywood”

If a Japanese kamikaze pilot during World War II failed in their mission of crashing the plane into enemy ships, they weren't usually executed or even really punished for their failure. Instead, they were just sent again. Well, except for this one guy who went and came back nine times and was executed for cowardice.

Linguists use the term 'Escher sentences' for constructions which appear to make sense at first glance but don't actually have any grammatical meaning. Example:

More people have been to Berlin than I have.

ive been familiar with #766 my whole life :/

A man survived BOTH Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi

Any human language with a finite number of words/characters is inappropriate for a proper use in mathematics. They all would lead to Richard's paradox: "N is the smallest number that cannot be defined with less than twenty words". In the previous sentence, N was just defined with less than 20 words. You can replace 20 with any finite number big enough to write this sentence in another language.

Here's another (second) fact: Two French kings died by hitting their head on a door knob. Note, it happened TWICE.

Here are some facts I have about Ireland:

1: The Irish for whiskey (uisce beatha) has a literal translation of 'Water of Life'.

2: The old Irish for church is 'Cill' so when place names based around chruches were translated to English, they started with 'Kil'. Good examples are 'Kilcock' (Meath), 'Kilbarrack' (Dublin) and Kilkenny.

3: The Irish for jellyfish (smugairle róin) has a literal translation of 'Seal Snot'

Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other states combined.

@Quizmaster #138 has a typo in it, fyi.

Wikipedia has it's own Wikipedia page.

Fact #3:

Every c in "Pacific Ocean" is pronounced different.

The first c is pronounced "s"

The second c is pronounced "k"

The third c is pronounced "sh"

Another possible fact for the list:

After Brexit, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Wales) is no longer in the EU, so the longest place name in the EU is:

Azpilicuetagaraycosaroyarenberecolarrea (Spain) (39 letters)

Fact 2^2:

Whoever made this sentence must be on something.

This exceeding trifling witling, considering ranting criticizing concerning adopting fitting wording being exhibiting transcending learning, was displaying, notwithstanding ridiculing, surpassing boasting swelling reasoning, respecting correcting erring writing, and touching detecting deceiving arguing during debating.

Is it correct? Somehow, yes! I don't know how the h*ll that is supposed to be.

Same goes for this:

I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications’ incomprehensibleness.

a bird reevolved itself back into existence

Fact √25:

Squids are probably from space. But, nobody knows.

Fact 六 (6):

The business man counted the the coins.

Read that again. Your brain ignores the 2nd 'the.'

Hummingbirds can fly backwards, and they are the only bird that can consistently do so.

I don't know if this has already been said, but Saudi Arabia imports sand.

Fact VII

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One Oreo contains 70 calories, meaning 30 of them is equivalent to your entire recommended daily caloric intake.

Make Anatolia Greek Again! :)

About #769: if I put my car in neutral at the top of a hill with no wind it will roll down the hill. Ok so I knew that.

I believe this was recently corrected in a quiz answer, so it's known--but as a reminder, 766 is no longer true (it's generally legal in Oregon to pump your own gas now).

Fact 766: This is no longer true since Oregonians pump their own gas as of 2023. New Jersey still follows this rule though!