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Interesting Facts - Page 214
1066
European starlings are now common throughout the U.S. but they were only introduced in the 1800s. Some people blame it on Eugene Schieffelin, a man who released 60 starlings in Central Park in 1890, and who was rumored to want to introduce every bird mentioned in Shakespeare to the North American continent.
1067
Wales, Wallonia, Wallachia, Cornwall, Gaul, and walnut all get their names from the proto-Germanic word Walhaz, meaning "foreigner".
1068
There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms on Earth.
1069
Seven months after his death, the corpse of Pope Formosa was exhumed, dressed, and brought to court by Pope Stephen VI who then proceeded to accuse the dead pope of offenses against the Church. As Pope Stephen was both judge and accuser, the corpse was found guilty, stripped of papal vestments, and had three fingers cut off, before being reburied, exhumed a second time, and thrown into the River Tiber, then retrieved from the river and re-interred in St Peter's Basilica, after the death of Stephen by strangulation while in prison.
1070
Detroit is the only U.S. city to officially surrender to a foreign army.
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Credit @McKenzieFam for #1069.
Credit @GreenYoshi88 for #1070.
also QM do you think the IFG hasn't been submitting quality facts lately? do we need to step up our game?
I don't want to publish things that users read on Buzzfeed or Reddit. I want to publish unique facts that people learn from reading actual books.
- despite their names potatoes and sweet potatoes are not related
- cows have a 4-chambered stomach, one of the chambers being used to digest poop
- if you use street view on google earth and visit antarctica, you may be able to visit some very out of place pictures (it used to be a picture of 2 kids in some neighbourhood. now it's someone's cafe)
Chainsaws were originally invented to help with childbirth in the late 18th century. It wasn't until the start of the 20th century that we started using them to cut wood. -Quizbyquiz
Seven months after his death, the corpse of Pope Formosa was exhumed, dressed, and brought to court, by Pope Stephen VI, where he then proceeded to accuse the dead pope of offenses against the Church. As Pope Stephen was both judge and accuser, the corpse was found guilty, stripped of papal vestments, and had three fingers cut off, before being reburied, exhumed a second time, and thrown into the River Tiber, then retrieved from the river and reinterred in St Peter's Basilica, after the death of Stephen by strangulation while in prison. -McKenzieFam
The two parts to the world "helicopter" are actually "helico" meaning spiral, and "pter" meaning with wings (similarly to pterodactyl). -GreenYoshi88
Approximately 4% of all cheese worldwide is stolen every year. Annual global cheese production is about 22.5 billion tons, so that amounts to about 90 million tons of stolen cheese. Every. Year.
(This number is from a Times article back in 2011, so it may be slightly different now.)
One particularly expensive cheese heist happened in 2018 in Ontario, Canada. The thief disguised himself as a delivery driver and stole $137,000 USD worth of cheese. -McKenzieFam
A single house in San Jose, CA has been hit by cars exiting the nearby freeway 23 times since 1964. -Xtrordinary
Detroit is the only U.S. city to officially surrender to a foreign army. -GreenYoshi88
-FreeStater
The third largest illegal trade in the world is sand, used in construction, to the rate of $300,000,000,000. Entire beaches in Hungary and Jamaica have been stolen, and whole sand mafias have been formed for the express purpose of controlling the lucrative trade - Neodymium