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Interesting Facts - Page 197
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Aphids are sometimes already pregnant when they are born.
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Walter Tetley never grew up. As an adult, he retained the voice and appearance of a prepubescent boy. This allowed him to work in Hollywood as a voice actor. The exact cause of his malady is unknown.
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From 1957–1976 there was a scheduled bus service between London and Calcutta. The bus covered about 16,000 kilometers each way and took 50 days to reach its destination.
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King Abdullah II of Jordan can trace his ancestry back all the way to the prophet Muhammad, 40 generations prior.
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The automaker Ferrari has a higher stock market valuation than Ford, even though Ford sells more than 300 times as many vehicles each year.
i need the explanation because fish isn't a number..
unless it's algebra and fish is a variable with a value equal to 4
0-0=🕶️
1+1=🪟
Granted, they've only been around for a little more than a decade, but still. Conceding 2-147 is not good
Interesting facts JP group! Anything you would have said here but isnt a fact, say in the group! Stewart and QM can see it btw. Reduce y*p!
Also coat of arms aren't cool >:(
With 5 votes, the JetPunk Interesting Facts and Quotes Server has voted that this is the most interesting fact of the week in the server, posted by me.
2.Alexander the Great was accidentally buried alive. Scientists believe Alexander suffered from a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré Syndrome. They believe that when he died, he was actually just paralyzed and mentally aware!
3. Cleopatra was not Egyptian but Greek. she was a descendant of Alexander the Great's Macedonian general Ptolemy.
4. Before alarm clocks and way before smartphone alarms, there were people called knocker-uppers who would literally knock on people’s windows to wake them up in time for work. Up until the 1970s, knocker-uppers used a long stick, soft hammers, rattles or even pea shooters to reach their clients’ windows!
5. King Henry VIII of England had servants who were called "Grooms of Stool," whose job was to wipe his bottom after he went to the bathroom.
I just felt like posting facts on snipers today I guess.
also overmorrow for day after tmrw
El Alto also has more people than La Paz by city proper.
Also, the British Special Operations Executive had fake decoy rats for use against the Germans. Unfortunately, they were never used. But the fake rats did impress the Germans.
That might’ve been back in the days of the pages in the 180s
The British once had an idea to create an entire aircraft carrier made of pykrete (Ice with wood, kind of), because the British thought it to be impenetrable. Eventually, the idea was dismissed because it was very unpractical.
bojanam
kambojadesam is cambodia, kamboja is khmer and desam means country. we dont use kambodiya because we had contact with the khmer empire, and in old texts used kambuja or kamboja
bojanam is meal
Also in the 1936 Olympics was that Haiti and Liechtenstein realized they had the same flag. This was changed when Liechtenstein added a crownto its flag.
i wonder how big the liechtenstein olympic team was back then
How cool they cut and welded Olympic medals to represent the draw equally.
I wonder if tiebreakers would even be optional anymore. They might be compulsory nowadays
Netanyahu warned Tehran that they'd pay a heavy price for any attack. Hopefully it doesn't blow up into another war
Venus has a day which is longer than its year, with its year being ~225 Earth days long, while its day is ~243 Earth days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_Hong_Dan_incident