Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Word Search
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
Message Board
Dark Mode
Interesting Facts - Page 220
1096
In 1963, Australia proposed annexing the country of Nauru, relocating the population to Curtis Island (a much larger island), and giving all the people Australian citizenship. Nauru refused.
1097
The British pound was once worth a pound of silver.
1098
Toro, which means "melting", is sushi made from fatty tuna belly. Today commanding an extremely high price, before WWII it was considered low quality and often discarded.
1099
The phrase "what's up" was not commonly used until Bugs Bunny made it popular.
1100
Sorry, eh? In 2010, Canada delivered an official apology to Rwanda for failing to prevent the Rwanda genocide.
New and Popular
In the 1960s, Nauru was extremely rich from phosphate mining. But it was obvious that the phosphate would run out and eventually most of the island would become uninhabitable. And that's exactly what happened.
Worse Nauru's government blew its savings from the phosphate mining on foolish investments such as a Broadway play.
Today, they are poor. Ironically, they make some money by taking unwanted migrants from Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Island,_Queensland
Moving to Australian and being granted full citizenship is a great alternative. In fact, I bet 50% of people in the world would take that deal right now.
Sovereignty isn't that special when you're stuck on a tiny island in the middle of nowhere that has been 90% ruined by strip mining. Nauru is only 21 square kilometers. How would you like to spend your entire life on that tiny patch of bombed out rock?
LEGO bricks withstand compression better than concrete. An ordinary plastic LEGO brick is able to support the weight of 375,000 other bricks before it fails. This, theoretically, would let you build a tower nearing 3.5km in height. Scaling this up to house-size bricks, however, would, sadly, cost far too much -PontiacLover
Monaco tried suing Mississippi in 1934. The Supreme Court of the United States dismissed the case saying that they had to get Mississippi's consent to be sued (i.e they lacked jurisdiction over the case). -Xtrordinary
Adrien Brody's mother is Hungarian and his father is partly Polish. He won 2 Academy Awards, one for playing a Pole in The Pianist and one for playing a Hungarian in The Brutalist -TigerPl
Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, suffered many injuries during his childhood including drinking a bowl of acid thinking it was milk, falling onto a hot cast-iron frying pan, being struck by a brick, swallowing a pin, surviving a gunpowder explosion, falling down 3 stories, almost drowning in a river among many other things. After he invented the Saxophone, a group of instrument makers who did not like his invention set a bunch of lawsuits against him and apparently tried to assassinate him TWICE. -Xtrordinary
There is an urban myth regarding statues of war heroes in parks: If there is a horse with both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. -HollowYT
The bogus 1956 documentary “White Wilderness” helped to bring us the Grand Theft Auto series. The documentary perpetuated the myth that lemmings scurry off cliffs to their deaths. In 1991, DMA Designs released “Lemmings”—a game that features lemmings aimlessly wandering forward to their doom. On the back of that success, DMA released a game about committing crimes in 1997. By the time Grand Theft Auto III came out, DMA had rebranded itself as Rockstar Games. -Dimby
"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share." - Steve Ballmer (then-CEO of Microsoft), 2007 -Lindwyrm
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aibohphobia
Which eventually comes back to the Indus river.
North Colombia to South USA:1066 miles
As the crow flies, rounded to the nearest mile
Whats even crazier is that Colombia is only the 27th largest country in the world which puts them slightly above France and behind South Africa.
Additional trivia: that was the first presidential assassination attempt.
Seems questionable that if George Washington had been killed in 1753 that it would have qualified as an "assassination." It certainly would not have been a "presidential assassination."
Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, Nas, Ice Cube, and Travis Scott have never won a Grammy
1. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
2. The moon experiences earthquakes.