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Some amazing facts gathered from various sources
Yep, here it is. The most amazing facts of just about every single topic on the planet. I found most of these facts absolutely useless, and they never made me any smarter, but oh well, it was amusing non the less!
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A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.
In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.
The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
After the “Popeye†comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.
There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people.
The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the “water displacing†substance.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
The first ever “World Summit on Toilets†was held in Singapore in November 2001.
Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.
In only eight minutes, the Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour.
On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
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