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Interesting Facts - Page 217
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The Antonov An-225 Mriya was the heaviest airplane ever built. Only one was ever made. It was destroyed in 2022 during the Ukraine War.
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The ancient Greeks dug up bones which they believed belonged to ancient heroes and giants. It is now theorized that these bones were the fossils of giant prehistoric creatures.
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The Pokemon episode "Electric Soldier Porygon" aired only once and caused about 600 children to be hospitalized due to rapidly flashing light sequences that triggered epileptic seizures.
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Anthony Hopkins was only on screen for about 16 minutes in "The Silence of the Lambs". As a percentage of the length of the movie, this is the least an actor has ever been on screen and still won an Oscar for Best Actor.
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Kearney, Nebraska was originally spelled "Kearny." But the post office kept misspelling it as "Kearney" so eventually they just rolled with it.
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Several railway stations, especially in the United Kingdom, have a "Platform 0", where an extra platform has been constructed before Platform 1. Stations which have a Platform 0 include Cardiff Central, London King's Cross and Leeds in the U.K., and Kyoto in Japan [Source]
7 of the 8 largest cities in the Central African Republic begin with B [Source]
(shameless promotion) Additionally, along with the above fact, I have got another 25 related to geography in this blog: Interesting Facts About Geography
The base of Old Joe is very large - from Wikipedia:
"The base is solid concrete, 50 ft (15.2 m) square by 10 ft (3.0 m) thick, with foundations that extend 328 ft (100 m) below ground to ensure stability"
The foundations extend into the ground as low as the tower is high.
The mathematician Carl Gauss proposed for three huge square-shaped fields of wheat to be grown in Siberia, arranged so that there is a right triangle-shaped gap between them. He believed that this arrangement would signify the Pythagorean theorem, and convey to extraterrestrial beings that humans were intelligent enough to know it. -thread
Bobby Caldwell won “Top Black Artist of the Year” in 1979 for his soulful song "What You Won't Do For Love". Bobby Caldwell is white. -SirPhilippines
Ohio State hasn't lost a football game to a team from Ohio in 104 years -ooftownroad
The board game Campaign for North Africa is notorious for its length and complexity: the manual is a little less than 200 pages and a full game takes around 1500 hours to complete. -Lindwyrm
Prawo Jazdy was a supposed criminal in Ireland noted for having over 50 traffic violations, though all were suspiciously in different parts of the country and associated with different addresses. It was discovered by the Irish police in 2007 that "Prawo Jazdy" meant driving license in Polish, and multiple Polish people with the phrase written on their driving license were identified by it, assumed to be their name. -thread
Saturn’s North Pole has a large, persistent cloud pattern that forms a hexagon. Each side of the Great Hexagon is about 14,500 km (a bit bigger than Earth). -Dimby