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Can you guess those 20 randomly selected interesting facts from the 'Interesting Facts' page?
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as of November 23, 2019, there are 363 possible answers
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310
Old Blue was the name of a black robin who was the last fertile female of her species. This species, on an island
off the east coast of New Zealand, was incredibly brought back from the brink of extinction in the 1980s.
Today, there are more than 250 black robins, all descended from "Old Blue".
38
The book Moby Dick starts with the famous opening line "Call me Ishmael".
194
Spaghetti is plural. A single strand of spaghetti is a spaghetto.
235
Until 2016, the song "Happy Birthday to You" was owned by Warner/Chappell Music. They earned over
$2 million a year in royalties, and reportedly sued restaurant chains or other businesses that sang the song in public.
Thankfully, the copyright was invalidated and the song is now in the public domain.
164
The American politicain John McCain was outlived by his mother.
She was 106 years old at the time of his death in 2018.
158
The catacombs of Paris hold the remains of over 6 million people.
177
Ireland still has a lower population today than it did in the 1800s before the Irish Potato Famine.
7
The colossal squid is thought to be even larger than the giant squid.
195
Male bees are known as drones. They don't have stingers and don't collect nectar. Their main purpose
is to mate with a queen bee. However, if one succeeds in mating, he dies quickly afterward after losing his, uh, parts.
272
In Europe, during the Middle Ages, animals were sometimes tried for crimes in a court of law.
345
The effects of wealth disparity can last for centuries, In the year 1066, the Normans conquered England and
placed themselves on top of the social hierarchy. More than 900 years later, people with Norman
last names are still about 10% wealthier than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
113
The Hawaiian islands were once known to Europeans as the Sandwich Islands -
named by explorer James Cook after the 4th Earl of Sandwich.
136
The U.S. state of Maine was a part of Massachusetts before becoming its own state in 1820.
165
In the year 828, the city of Venice stole the purported remains of Saint Mark from Alexandria.
39
Moore's Law states that number of transistors on a microchip doubles every 12-24 months.
This law generally held true for fifty years, from 1965-2015, but many people think the rate of doubling is now slower.
289
Polydactyl cats have more than 5 toes on each paw. Ernest Hemingway kept
polydactyl cats whose descendants now live in his former home on Key West.
125
The record for the world's heaviest pumpkin is 2624.6 pounds. The record has increased by over 400% since 1980.
9
Only 7 prisoners were inside the Bastille when it was stormed during the French Revolution.
86
There are currently 186,700 tonnes of gold above ground. At today's prices
of $1,300 an ounce, this is worth about 8.6 trillion dollars.
332
Was Napoleon short for his time? We don't actually know. It all depends on how he was measured at his autopsy.
Some people think that English units were used while others think that old French units were used.
So he was either 5'2'' (1.57m) or 5'7'' (1.70m).
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ZooTuber3000
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Level 52
Aug 2, 2021
Cool! Interesting to take multiple times, due to the many different potential answers. I just have a question: in a quiz, how can you make the answer appear in the blank spot?
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