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Interesting Facts - Page 211
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Rappers Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Playboi Carti, Baby Keem, and Viper all have the last name Carter.
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Home Depot is a chain store in the U.S. selling home improvement goods. It is the 22nd most valuable company in the United States. But it is worth more than every publicly traded European company founded after 1975. Combined.
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The women's 100 meter dash record was set in 1988 by Florence Griffith Joyner. One reason the record hasn't been broken yet is that it was almost certainly wind-aided. Despite a strong wind that day, the wind gauge showed 0.0 m/s for some reason.
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The world record in the women's 400 meter dash was set in 1985. The record in the women's 800 meters was set in 1983. The holders of both records were from Eastern European countries with a history of state-sponsored doping, but neither record holder has ever failed a drug test or admitted to doping.
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There is a "your mom" joke written on a cuneiform tablet which dates to ancient Babylon around 1500 BC.
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- Australia is wider than the moon
- Crocodiles can gallop like horses
- Ketchup was once sold as a medicine
- Flamingos aren't born pink
- Dogs developed puppy dog eyes to manipulate people
- Avocados are fruits
- Bananas are berries
- Honey never spoils
- There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on
Earth
Already the range of possible strike locations has been narrowed down. Europe and North America are safe. India and Africa, not so much.
Edit: They downgraded the chance to like 0.1%. I'm going to replace the fact.
#nothingeverhappens
Granted, even India isn't uniformly like that. If it strikes in a rainforest or desert somewhere, it should be fine. But hitting Delhi or Mumbai would be disastrous.
"of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her. What/who is it?"
Tchaikovsky had severe stage fright and believed his head would fall off while conducting. To alleviate this, he would hold his chin with one hand and conduct with the other.
-SirPhilippines
The green code in The Matrix was actually created from symbols in one of the film designers' wife's sushi cookbook.
-JetPunker180
The New Caledonian crow is able to create new tools from previous existing ones, and is able to use one tool on another tool to complete certain tasks, rivalling the intelligence and performance of primates.
It is the only non-primate species known to be able to do this.
-Xtrordinary
The KGB walk is a walk exhibited in KGB agents, where their dominant hand stays in place while walking, ready to pull out a gun at any moment. This can be seen in many former KGB officials who now work in high ranking positions in Russian government, like Putin, Medvedev, and Surdyukov.
-SirPhilippines
He then had his identity stolen 13 times.
-Minecraftyoshi12
In 1969, Skamania County, Washington State, made it illegal to hunt Bigfoot. This might sound silly, but the law was intended to curb injuries caused by instances of people shooting at vaguely human-shaped objects in the distance.
-In2restingFacts
Melbourne, Australia was almost named Batmania after one its founders, John Batman. He also signed Batman's Treaty which is the only documented treaty where Europeans directly negotiated occupation of Aboriginal lands with the actual Aboriginal owners.
-Minecraftyoshi2
When Doss was awarded the Medal of Honor, President Truman shook his hand for the entire duration of the induction ceremony.
-CambodianQuizzer
As of 2025, student loan debt in the U.S. stands at $1.773 trillion.
With this astonishing amount of money, you can fund NASA for about 90 years, build 3,500 Burj Khalifas, buy 1.7 trillion Mac's cheeseburgers, surpass the GDP of Australia, or give 200 dollars to every person in the world.
-UnrequitedLove
Father's Day wasn't designated a national holiday until President Richard Nixon in 1972[2]