Interesting Facts - Page 240

A new fact! Why does the West Coast have a monopoly on tech companies?

Diddy Daycare is a daycare in Liverpool, UK.

The Statue of Liberty is an enclave of New York found in New Jersey.

South Korea has a phone number, 113, to report suspected spies

License plates for people with a DUI conviction are a different color in Ohio

Calling men guys comes from Guy Fawkes

In 1998, the majority of Iceland's population believed in elves

IKEA stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd

Helen Keller's paternal grandfather was Robert E. Lee's second cousin.

Adult cats only meow at humans

The Bible has been translated to Klingon

Los Angeles was originally called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula

ZIP code 99734 in northern Alaska is over 30000 square miles. The smallest is 00501, the IRS in Holtsville, New York. This area is millions of times smaller.

India's longest border is with Bangladesh

Here are some I found:

-There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way

-Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected assassin of JFK, may or may not have been the one to kill him. Some people say that the shooter was not in the Texas Book Depository but in Grassy Knoll

-The CIA once tried to use cats at spies. The project was called "Acoustic Kitty."

Learnt this from a response by MsNuclearEnergy to a Hank Green short, so why not...

Coal power plants usually emit (expose people to) more radiation than nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power plants, of course, generate more highly radioactive waste (via waste products from fission of elements like Uranium or Thorium or contamination due to the process) than coal power plants. However, the latter generates/releases more radioactive waste (usually consisting of lower level radioactive particulates generated by burning coal - a naturally occurring radioactive material - that gets released as coal ash and accumulates in the environment over time) than nuclear power plants. Radioactive waste from nuclear power plants also often has more shielding compared to coal ash (so that means you'd get exposed to more radiation from coal ash than radioactive waste stored under water or lead lined boxes).

The Russian BMP-3 is one of the few modern armored fighting vehicles to include bow-mounted machine guns, in the form of 2 PKTMs mounted next to the driver.

Former Equatoguinean dictator Francisco Macías Nguema was so brutal that, according to some estimates, up to 70% of the country's population had fled during his rule. In response, he had landmines buried in the only road out of the country.

His nephew, who overthrew him in 1979, is still in power today.

One day, King Tamar sent a letter to Sultan Suleiman II. It offended him so much that Tamar's General smacked the king's courier unconscious.

Strengthlessnesses (meaning more than one state of being without power) is the longest English word with only one unique vowel.

does QM use Polymarket/Kalshi

Philadelphia brand cream cheese is headquartered in Chicago (I think).

Under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, Americans are entitled to annex unclaimed islands with guano. This resulted in islands being claimed as far away as Japan, French Guiana, and the Seychelles. However, most of the claims have since been dropped.

"Everyone shall have the right to determine and declare his (her) nationality. Nobody shall be forced to determine his (her) nationality." This is actually mentioned in the Constitution of Russia, and you can choose your own nationality, real or not. For instance, some people have chosen Jedi and Hobbit as their official ethnicity.

In 2025 the #1 spot on the billboard hot 100 was held for 44 out of 52 weeks by 5 songs

In 2015, the (current) president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, starred in the film Servant of the People, where he played the role of...the president of Ukraine.

Not a fun fact, just in case anyone wanted to crack their brains a bit, they may try this quiz :)

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/2505701/logical-reasoning-involving-mathematical-operations

If you were to take a standard piece of paper (0.1 mm thick) and fold it 42 times, the stack would be thick enough to reach the moon. Fold the paper 103 times, the stack would be thicker than the entire observable universe

Graham's Number is so massive that if your brain actually tried to hold all the digits of it at once, your head would contain so much information that it would collapse into a black hole.

No matter how many countries you have on a map, you will only need 4 colors to ensure that no two countries with the same colors border each other

The clock on the Mecca Clock Tower is nearly half the height of Big Ben (the whole tower)

Fun fact: While every country accepts that whoever is mentioned in the Epstein files is a horrible person, expert politicians in our India justify by saying that although Epstein is a bad person because he did such deeds... let's focus on the fact that he was a power-breaker. Like how every person has a bad side, he has a good side too...

(It's like saying bin Laden was a bad guy, but let's focus on the fact that he had a good side too👍)

During the evacuation of Dunkirk during WW2, over 380k British and French soldiers were evacuated in 9 days. During the 9/11 boat lift in NYC, 500k people were evacuated in less than 9 hours by civilians and some coast guard members.

From Stamford, Connecticut, every cardinal direction leads to the state of New York

California is the closest state to Hawaii, but Hawaii is the farthest state from California.

Palm trees grow at 53 degrees north in Ireland

Polar bears live at 55 degrees north in Canada

Azerbaijan once published the results of its presidential elections before they even took place....

Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are the same lake

The most copied link in history is "Never Gonna Give You Up" composed by Rick Astley.

Karl Dönitz, last leader of Nazi Germany, only served ten years in prison after the war. He died a free man in 1980.

The song Bye Bye Bye (*NSYNC) and Baby One More Time (Britney Spears) was used by the CIA in their "Enhanced Interrogation" techniques.

Eminem and Metallica songs have also been found to have been used

On Nov. 3, 1874, African Americans were electing Republican candidates to office at polls near Eufaula, AL, but members of a paramilitary group supporting the Democratic Party called the White League weren't too happy about this. So, the White League used firearms to attack these African Americans at the polls. An estimated 15-40 African Americans died and 70 others were wounded in what is known as the Election Massacre of 1874 (aka Election Riot of 1874 or Coup of 1874). Following this event, many Democrats silenced witnesses by auctioning them off for up to $2 dollars a month to not say anything. When the events were brought to court, the rioters were not blamed by the grand jury, but rather the "militant" Black Republicans were blamed for the tense atmosphere.

From 1923 to 1969, the official language of Illinois was American.

Indiana tried to pass legislation to round pi up to 3.2

until 2003, the town of Strong, Maine, produced 90% of the country’s toothpick supply

In 1967, two different grizzly bears attacked and killed two women on the same night in Glacier National Park.

Nevada has far more slot machines than people

There are more vanity plates in Virginia than there are people in the state of Rhode Island.

Washington has more glaciers than the other 47 contiguous states combined.