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Interesting Facts - Page 198
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Joe Biden became a U.S. senator in 1973. Only 30 years old at the time, he was the 7th youngest Senator in U.S. history.
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$1000 invested in Philip Morris stock at the end of 1925 would be worth over $2.5 billion today.
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In the interior of Alaska there is a frog known as the Wood Frog which can survive more than half of its body being frozen solid.
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The last Tsar is still alive. Tsar Simeon II ruled Bulgaria from 1943–1946, at which point the monarchy was abolished. Decades later, in 2001, the now former royal was elected as Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
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Bananas are radioactive.
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During the Greek Civil War, both sides wrote propaganda on donkey’s backs and let them wander into enemy territory to spread messages and/or misinformation.
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 SirPhillipines. Also i saw a good one on page 197 about Germany finishing WW1 reparations in 2010.
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Since I can't join the group, I'll put my fact here (no spamming, I promise). St. Louis County in Minnesota is the only American county with a coastline which borders both another country (Canada) and another state (Wisconsin).
OK people, only 11 more til 1,000 facts reached! Let's go to that group and submit our facts
J3n:
If you in some way insult the king/royal family in Thailand, you will get a prison sentence from 3-15 years.
In 2016, a hacker group by the name of Lazarus successfully hacked almost 100 MILLION dollars from the Bangladesh Central Bank. The hackers deposited the money to a bank in the Philippines, and there some assistants took all of it and used some of it to gamble. After a while of gambling some of the money away, they returned the money back to the Bangladesh Central Bank, so the money couldn't be tracked. It is believed Lazarus works for North Korea. They also almost got their hands on ONE BILLION dollars, but a spelling error made it so they ''only'' got 100 million dollars.
SirPhilippines:
The longest serving Thai King and 3rd longest reigning monarch, Rama IX, was born in Massachusetts.
The Kazakh SSR was the last to leave the USSR, meaning that for 4 days, the USSR technically only consisted of what is now Kazakhstan.
The Republic of West Florida, or the State of Florida, was a nation that lasted for two months, before being annexed by the United States. Their flag is very similar to that of Somalia, and contrary to the name, West Florida encompassed most of eastern Louisiana.