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Interesting Facts - Page 174
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Dinner used to be a mid-day meal, with supper eaten in the evening. Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, people ate dinner later and later. Eventually, it became so late it was now in the evening. Supper disappeared entirely and a new meal, lunch, was introduced to fill the gap between breakfast and dinner.
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Bhumibol Adulyadej, king of Thailand from 1946–2016, owned as many as 21 white elephants, the most of any king in Thai history.
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Aristotle believed that men had more teeth than women.
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The growth in India's population since the year 2000 is greater than the entirety of the United States population.
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According to legend, a Montana frontiersman named Liver-Eating Johnson killed, scalped, and ate the livers of 300 Crow Indians after one of them killed his wife.
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Palau has flags for all of its states even though the smallest of them (Hathobei) has only 25 people which (most likely, not 100% sure) makes it the 4th least populated geographic or political entity (excluding micronations) with a flag. The others are Brecqhou, Lihou and Jethou, British Channel Islands. Hatohobei is also the least populated populated first-level administrative subdivision in the world
Researchers from Japan and the UK were studying a type of slime mold, Physarum Polycephalum and noted its behavior to create 'tunnels' to bring nutrients from a food source to itself.
So, they put the mold on a map of Tokyo and put food on where stations in the Tokyo subway were located. Within several hours, the mold would grow toward this food and create links (tunnels) to transfer nutrients. Scientists examined these links and found it to look similar to the Tokyo subway today. With more testing, these researchers could generate a more efficient subway system and hope that this method can help improve the Tokyo subway system.
As an Indonesian, I vividly remember drawing these (when I was young) if asked (usually for scenery). Although, I had no idea about how others also drew this as well as the origin.
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There was also some rule that you had to wave a red flag infront of a Automobile and a person had to march infront of it
(I know I said it was Nevada, but the calculations were incorrect.)
To put this in comparison, that is over 160 trillion times the age of the Universe.
The one in Iran.
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
Xinglong,
Xilin
Xiangyang
Xiaohe
Xinhua
respectively
In Alaska, although it is legal to shoot a bear, it is forbidden to wake it up to take a picture.
In the ancient Greek Olympics, athletes competed naked.
King Ismail of Morocco, who lived in the 18th century, is credited with 1,056 children.
“Not unmindful of my son, I give all of my estate, both real and personal, to my wife, Grace Coolidge, in fee simple.”
c'mon everyone lets make this a thread
Tuvalu GDP is around 26 million, right?
To match Elon Musks Money, which is around 187 billion,
you need to times it by 7,226, and its still a little bit less than elon musks money.
Keep in mind that only around 0.7 percent of the world have 1 million, and its only 1/26th of tuvalu GDP!
2. Every Irish country has 1-3 colours, however over five counties use white and blue and Ofally uses the Irish flag.
3. The shortened name of Burmingham is B’ham.
4. Switzerland didn’t join the United Nations until 2002.
5. The O’ in an Irish name means desendant of.
6. Lots of cars from Saint Lucia are directly imported from Japan in Japanese
7. Until 2023, Wikipedia used an incorrect Vatican City flag. That means Jetpunk also did!
8. The government of the Republic of Chad does not have a website
9. The Vatican city has three popes per square kilometer
10. New York has one person per capita
Yes I watched the recent Map Men video, why’d you ask?
However, no one was injured as all 15 members of the choir were miraculously late, all due to different reasons. Some of the reasons included: car troubles, completing unfinished homework, oversleeping, wanting to iron a dress and waiting to listen to the end of a radio show.