Interesting Facts - Page 161

After Kevin Durant was injured during the 2019 NBA Finals and lost the series, he left the Warriors and signed with the Brooklyn Nets, and the Nets traded guard Caris LeVert to Indiana because he and KD played similar positions. While undergoing a routine physical before playing his first game for the Pacers, doctors discovered a mass on his kidney which turned out to be a benign cancerous tumor, which they were able to surgically remove. LeVert made a full recovery and returned to the court in only 2 months. Kevin Durant indirectly saved Caris LeVert's life.

Fun Fact: Since its maximum territorial extent, the Roman Empire has shrunk to 4.769% of its area, a decrease in size even larger than that of the Mongol Empire!

In January 15th, 1919, at the city of Boston, a large storage tank filled with 2.3 million US gal (8,700 m3) of molasses, weighing approximately 13,000 short tons (12,000 t), burst, and the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event entered local folklore and residents claimed for decades afterwards that the area still smelled of molasses on hot summer days.

On July 25, 2019, five European countries beat their highest temperature records (Germany, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Belgium)

Interesting fact: Chile is so long it can stretch from Yucatan, Mexico to the Hudson Bay.

Before the U.S. Civil War, it was proposed that the presidency be split into two offices: a southern president and a northern president.

Probably already listed, but I'm not going through 800+ facts. Maine is closer to Africa than Florida is.

The Finnish presidential flag still contains a swastika.

According to Hammurabi's Code, if a female wine vendor accepts money instead of corn as payment, she is to be thrown into the water.

The reason so many royal houses are of German origin is due to the fact that the Holy Roman Empire had hundreds and hundreds of independent states, small and large. Just imagine the British monarchy, with all its members, and multiply that by 1000. Basically, any new country in need of a king could just pull a member of a royal family in the HRE that wasn't in the succession for their kingdom.

Hot water freezes faster than cold water through a process called the Mpemba Effect

A species of ant is native to New York City and nowhere else on the planet. It is called, the ManhattAnt.

Napoleon lost a battle to a horde of rabbits

The McDonald's in Sedona, Arizona, is the only one in the world with a turquoise "M"

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The Holy Roman Empire had an office called an Elector, who was essentially a Grand Duke who could vote for the Emperor. Many states held this power at some point, such as Hanover, Bavaria, and Hesse-Kassel. Most states abandoned the title, which had been rendered meaningless, after the fall of the HRE, but Hesse-Kassel's "elector" kept the title despite not having an Emperor to elect anymore, because it thought it sounded better than Grand Duke, and he didn't have the prestige to crown himself a King.

Politically, relations between China and Taiwan are extremely hostile for obvious reasons. However, economically, China and Taiwan have a very large trading relationship. In 2021, roughly 42% of Taiwan's exports, or $190 billion, went to China, compared to only 15% to the US.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/taiwans-trade-with-china-is-far-bigger-than-its-trade-with-the-us.html

The City of Cluj-Napoca, in Northwestern Romania, is roughly equidistant from Bucharest, Budapest, and Belgrade, all capital cities starting with B

There's a French Basketball player of partial Chinese descent playing in the French LNB Pro A League. His first name is "Steeve" and his last name is "Ho You Fat".

Yes, that's his actual last name.

To avoid radioactivity, the dead body of Marie Curie is lined with Lead. Her belongings are also in lead box.

In the 1832 presidential election, three states (Missouri, Georgia, and Mississippi) gave the entirety of their popular vote to Andrew Jackson, with not a single vote cast for any other candidate.

Additionally, Henry Clay did win some votes in Alabama — five.

Fact 800 reminded me of 2 things:

1. Hippopotamus comes from Híppos and Potamós in Greek, meaning Horse and River, so it is a river horse. So if you say Hippo, technically it just means horse.

2. *h₂ŕ̥tḱos is the reconstruction of the word for bear in Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of all Indo-European language. This word evolved in most branches of Indo-European, such as Greek where it became Arktos, mentioned in that fact. But in the Germanic branch, including English, and the Slavic branch of the Balto-Slavic, including Russian, the word became taboo as it was feared that it may summon a bear, which is why English uses bear, from a euphemism meaning brown, and Russian uses медведь, from a euphemism meaning honey-eater.

I have read all of the interesting facts, i know everything

Not really an interesting fact but apparently there are 2 PEI(s)/Prince Edward Island(s), one in Canada (Prince Edward Island) and one in South Africa (Prince Edward Islands)

That will be confusing (also shows how we name things quite boringly)

Everybody knows about the "name change" of King County, Washington. However, many Confederate leaders still have counties named for them, including Jeff Davis County, Lee County, Stonewall County, and even Forrest County, named for the founder of the KKK. Most counties named for Confederate leaders are over a third black, some of them over half.

Norway's Parliament is called the Storting, which literally translates to "Great Thing."

(P.S. "Thing" means Viking assembly in this context, not the English meaning of thing)

100% of people who drink water will eventually die. Unfortunately, 100% who don't drink water will also eventually die. There's really no winning in this scenario.

In 2022, the average person ate 20% of their weight in spiders every night. This is nearly double historical rates from the 19th century. Just more and more evidence of why industrial society has failed us.

Another fact: The westernmost point of china is closer to Germany, Italy, Ethiopia, and Svalbard, than it is to China's easternmost point

Distance Facts: LA is closer to Hawaii than it is to NYC

The Easternmost point of Australia is closer to Somalia than it is to Chile

The distance between Senegal and Israel is about the same as Portugal to Kazakhstan

Tierra del Fuego is closer to Costa Rica than it is to Aruba (Common sense issue, similar to the Maine-Florida-Africa)

The Easternmost point of mainland Africa is closer to the Philippines than it is to Dakar, Senegal

And now, my favorite:

The trip from Cape town, South Africa, to Tunis, Tunisia, gives you enough mileage to start in Lagos, Portugal, slightly east of Zaragoza, through Encamp, spend the night in Montpellier, a show in the Fashion Capital, a turn in Northern Burgenland, straight through Baia Mare, into Moldova, north of Chisinau, take a quick stop at the Crimean border (for some reason) pass through Marhanets, pass the Russian border west of Bryansk and Murmansk, say hello to Santa as you pass into Lapland, take a turn in sweden, and finish your trip in Oslo

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Washington state was originally going to be named Columbia, but the idea was scrapped in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.). Look how that turned out.

For 802, a better wording would be more than 10 times the population, as that is true.

Dang its been over a month since new facts :(

Not sure if this is used already but whatever

There is a mysterious island located in Argentina (roughly between Buenos Aires and Campana) that is located in a circular shape 'pool', which is moves around in. It is known as 'El Ojo (Misterioso)', although scientists say that the island is probably linked closer to natural phenomena than the supernatural.

In 1958, a man approached Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari, and complained that the car he recently purchased was too noisy and had extremely poor clutches. Enzo stated that the guy "didn't know how to drive a Ferrari" and that the Ferrari car was fine. The other man vowed never to buy a Ferrari again and decided to build a superior car. His name? Ferruccio Lamborghini.

There are zero recorded cases of planes crashing due to turbulence.

'Dixie' was written by an Ohioan.

7 times the population of Ireland? More like 10!

The word 'makes' is repeated in #805.

Makes makes