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Interesting Facts - Page 205
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When Pirates of the Caribbean opened at Disneyland in 1967, all of the skeletons on the attraction were actual human bones. As of 2024, it is thought that a small handful of original human bones still remain.
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Sound can be negative decibels. The quietest place on Earth is the anechoic chamber located at Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis where the noise level was officially measured at -24.9 decibels.
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During the production of "Toy Story 2" an employee accidentally deleted 90% of the film – nearly two years worth of work. Unfortunately, the backup systems were not working either. The movie was only saved because an employee had made a backup on their home computer while working from home on maternity leave.
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About 25% of all known animal species are beetles, leading biologist J. B. S. Haldane to quip that God must have an "an inordinate fondness for beetles".
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As of December 2024, U.S. Steel has a stock market capitalization of just $7 billion. For comparison, Chipotle (the fast food restaurant) is worth $84 billion.
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Credit @JetPunker180 for #1022.
1) Go to perplexity.ai
2) Type in your fact and ask if it's real
3) If it says it's real, look for sources then click on those sources and make sure they are credible.
4) Credible stories tend to have real details, with people's real names. They would also have been reported at the time they occurred, not decades later.
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William then began forging copies of his original forgeries and successfully passed them off as the original forgeries. -McKenzieFam
A baby born in international waters will take the nationality and citizenship of whatever country the ship is registered. -Interest1ngFacts
Many trees at the Battle of Gettysburg died from lead poisoning afterwards by being shot by lead bullets. Around one hundred "witness trees" remain from the era. -Neodymium
Germany only finished paying war reparations for World War I in 2010. -Xtrodinary
Abraham Lincoln and several other legislators once jumped out of the window of the Illinois General Assembly to try to save the state bank by not reaching quorum (they were counted present anyway and the bank was closed). -Neodymium