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Interesting Facts - Page 224
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The 12 largest lakes in Texas are all man-made reservoirs created by dams.
1117
In "Mean Girls", the actress playing Regina George was 25, while the actress playing her mother was 32.
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Supermarket apples can be up to a year old when you buy them. They are harvested in fall then stored in environmentally controlled facilities until they are sold.
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Novo Nordisk, the makers of Ozempic, doesn't have a patent for the drug in Canada because they didn't pay a small registration fee of $185.
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In the 1952 Texas election for governor, Allan Shivers was the nominee of both the Democratic and Republican parties. He beat himself, 73% – 25%.
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Credit @Danny999 for 1117 and 1118.
1120 comes from the blog astralcodexten.com.
In Mean Girls, Regina George's actress was 25, while her mother's was 32, just seven years older.
Between 1912 and 1948, competitive art was an Olympic sport.
Pigeons can differentiate between Picasso and Monet.
In Pulp Fiction, all clocks are set to 4:20
The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, not Paris
In the Beatles song "A Day in my Life," there is a very high frequency that only dogs can hear
Mariah Carey has the most #1 hits in USA for an American, solo artist, and woman.
The Pope is not allowed to be an organ donor.
The world's tallest tsunami, in Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958, was taller than the Empire State Building.
All natural numbers under 1000 do not contain the letter A when spelled out. After the thousands, the next multiple of ten with "a" is Quadrillion, then Quattordecillion.
White is not a color, but an absence of them.
Wind is silent. The sound we hear is the wind blowing against an object.
Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender
There is a statue of the "Friday the Thirteenth" serial killer chained to the bottom of a lake in Minnesota
60% of all lakes in the world are in Canada
"Octotrophe" is the real name of a hashtag
Eight NFL teams currently do not have cheerleaders. These are the Bills, Bears, Browns, Packers, Chargers, Giants, Jets, and Steelers.
NFL Super Bowl referees also recieve Super Bowl rings.
Bottlenose dolphins are the only species other than humans to have names for each other.
The Hollywood sign was created to sell houses and originally said Hollywoodland.
Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic
Salvador Dali created the Chupa Chups logo.
Penicillin was originally called Mold Juice.
Humans never see their own face, only photographs or reflections.
The North Pole moves 34 miles a year.
Supermarket apples can be a year old.
Japan has over 200 KitKat flavors.
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Cleveland, Ohio, once was the fifth largest city in USA, now it is 33rd and declining.
A cow-bison hybrid is called a beefalo.
Johnny Appleseed's apples weren't fit for eating, only for making cider.
At the end of a pregnancy, the Giant Pacific Octopus will lay about 56000 eggs at a time, over the course of a month.
The current US Flag design was made by a teenager, it was for a school project, received a B-, and was created before Alaska and Hawaii became states. He figured they would become states soon.
Only 1/4 of the Sahara Desert is covered by sand. Most of it is gravel, and there are also mountains and oases.
Avocadoes were named after reproductive organs.
Movie trailers originally played after the movie.
Xmas was not originally made to take Christ out of Christmas. In Greek, "Christmas" started with the letter Chi, which is x in Latin.
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The word Aquarium originally meant a watering place for cattle.
Steve Jobs also founded Pixar.
the sound of the MGM lion roar is trademarked.
Thomas Edison created the first cat videos.
Tennis balls had their color changed to look better on TV
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Further, posting outside the group hurts the group more, which makes more people post outside the group. This removes the benefits in reducing yap and increasing user facts making it on which the IFG has quantitatively shown. When people start posting outside, we get less facts, and overall post quality suffers. This leads to a spiral and less facts get on the boards. 🙁
"The house is falling apart, lets take our bricks back" (this will cause it to fall apart faster, rather than, say, supplying more bricks)
"The chain is not strong enough, let me take away my link" (the chain won't work at all if you take the link)
If you see a car logo on a vehicle in a movie, that means the automotive company likely paid for it to be there. If they don’t pay, the directors often take the logos off the car. In fact, if a movie has a car chase, it is highly likely that an automaker paid to have it. -In2erestingFacts
There is a constituency for the National Assembly of Botswana called "Kanye East". -Lindwyrm
There have been multiple recorded instances of tank nerds leaking classified information about war tanks in the forum discussions of the video game War Thunder. -McKenzieFam
Any place on Earth is less than 5 Chile lengths from Chile. -In2restingFacts
The term "Michigander" was popularized by Abraham Lincoln when he used it as an insult against a Michigan politician in 1848. -Neodymium
Most sailors in the 19th century did not know how to swim. -Xtrordinary
24 out of the 100 Most common Japanese surnames contain the character 田 (ta) meaning field or rice field. It's the Ta in Toyota and Narita and Da in Yamada and Haneda. -Neodymium
Admins are currently working on a reform, involving fact quality and truthfulness! We are making sure all highly upvoted facts make it on our posts.
Posting large quantities of facts hurts other fact posters, a problem the IFG was created to solve, as well as stops decluttering yap from these pages. A chart showing the extent of yap removal has been submitted, awaiting approval.
Further, posting outside the group hurts the group more, which makes more people post outside the group. This removes the benefits in reducing yap and increasing user facts making it on which the IFG has quantitatively shown. When people start posting outside, we get less facts, and overall post quality suffers. This leads to a spiral and less facts get on the boards. 🙁
The 14th Fact post will have the reforms admins are bringing in, and we hope you all come and like/post facts! The IFG only works when ppl participate in liking and posting. If you feel like IFG's dying, come liven it up!
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Cough Venezuela Cough“Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit”
Which means: “ City of Angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra's behest”.
At 168 Characters, it is the longest ceremonial name for any city.
(Not entirely sure whether this is already on the fun fact list or not, apologies if so.)