Interesting Facts - Page 199

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William Shatner, star of "Star Trek", flew into space at age 90. He is the oldest person to ever do so.
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Early in his career, Leonardo DiCaprio's agent suggested he change his stage name to Lenny Williams.
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The Disney Corporation has argued that a man cannot sue over the death of his wife at a Disney resort. The reason? He once signed up for a free trial of Disney+ and clicked through on a long terms-of-service contract which requires arbitration in any dispute with Disney.
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One doctor may have killed 800,000 people by publishing fraudulent research. The research claimed that giving patients beta blockers prior to surgery reduced the chance of death. In fact, it greatly increased the chance of death.
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Birds need gravity to swallow. A bird on the International Space Station would die.
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Sep 16, 2024
Credit @McKenzieFam for #995.
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Aug 26, 2024
993 what??

also 199!!

sorry I'll go yap in the group now

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Sep 1, 2024
Disney retracted their argument and the case is going to court. For those wondering: The wife died of anaphylactic shock due to the restaurant staff disregarding her nut allergy. So it had absolutely nothing to do with the Disney+ in the first place.
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Aug 30, 2025
Source if anyone's interested: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-backpedals-saying-man-cant-sue-wifes-death-signed-disney-rcna167310
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Jan 11, 2026
Are we sure that it had nothing to do with the Disney+ subscription?
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Aug 27, 2024
Our offering of stop spamming the Interesting Fact comments was accepted by our Quizmaster dictator god with a new set of facts in less than one month. We all thank the Quizmaster for doing this.
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Aug 27, 2024
wow you're right, Direct correlation. We thank you, Quizmaster
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Aug 28, 2024
Italian striker Mario Balotelli had only one Premier League assist throughout his entire stint at Manchester City.

This assist just so happened to be the one that led to the famous Aguero moment on the final day of the 2011/12 Premier League season.

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"Agüerooooooooooooooo!!!!!!"
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Half a computer byte is a nibble
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Sep 6, 2024
@Quizmaster here's the chosen facts from the group!

-HollowYT: In the Philippines, Christmas officially starts on September 1st, and ends on December 31st.

-McKenzieFam: Ducks need gravity to swallow. A duck on the International Space Station would die

- Xtrordinary: A kangaroo rat can live its entire 2-5 year lifespan without ever needing to drink water

-Noivern: Around a quarter of all iron ore comes from Western Australia.

-SirPhilippines: The "Chanson de l'Oignon" is a French marching song about the love for onions and how the Austrians don't deserve any.

- Noivern: Out of the three stanzas in the German national anthem, only the last one is sung. The first stanza is about Germany being the best country in the world, while the second is about German women and wine.

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-GeographyStar: For 4 days in 1945, while President Truman was replacing people in his cabinet, the Postmaster General (leader of the post office) was 4th in the line of succession.

And for the baseball page..

-McKenzieFam: A MLB player has played for both teams in the same game for the first time. A game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox was postponed partway through due to bad weather, and when the game was resumed two months later, Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen had been traded to the Red Sox, who later lost the game 1-4.

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Sep 6, 2024
957 needs an update
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Sep 6, 2024
YES TAKE THAT LIECHTENSTAIN
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Updated!
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Sep 6, 2024
w san marino
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
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High-wire walker Philippe Petit amazed New Yorkers by traversing a 131-foot-long cable between the Twin Towers, 1,350 feet above the Plaza. Going back and forth several times, he performed the act without a net on August 7, 1974.
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Sep 12, 2024
#321 needs update
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Updated!
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Thanks QM!
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Jul 10, 2025
Heracles was both Perseus' great-grandson and half brother.

And those were not the only times Zeus popped up in their family tree.

Another fact, this time about marine biology: Hawksbill sea turtles are biofluorescent.

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Feb 1, 2026
Isn't there a pretty good chance that any two random characters from Greek mythology are first cousins or closer?