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Can you guess those 20 randomly selected interesting facts from the 'Interesting Facts' page?
answer must correspond to the yellow box
as of November 23, 2019, there are 363 possible answers
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Last updated: November 24, 2019
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Interesting Fact
286
The record for the fastest vehicle on water was set in 1978 by Australian Ken Warby. His boat, the Spirit of Australia,
reached a speed of 511 km/h. Two attempts to beat his record have resulted in the death of the pilot.
315
Middle names weren't always common in the United States. Only three of the
eighteen Presidents that served prior to 1868 had middle names.
2
Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. (But Yasser Arafat did).
13
Marie Curie was both the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person of any gender to win twice
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.
49
250 million years ago, most of the Earth's land mass was on one giant continent - Pangaea.
Scientists believe that this giant land mass created extreme weather conditions.
221
Cows kill more people than sharks.
92
"Troglodyte" is another word for caveman.
227
Canada's maple leaf flag was not introduced until 1965. Before then, its official flag was the flag of the
United Kingdom and its de-facto flag was the Canadian Red Ensign.
117
Between 1996 and 2016, solar energy production in the U.S. increased
by more than 36% per year, a total increase of over 50,000%.
213
Rome is further north than New York City (just barely).
33
New Zealand was once home to the giant moa, a flightless bird that could rise to a height of 12 feet
and could weigh up to 600 pounds. It was driven to extinction shortly after the first people arrived in New Zealand.
223
Lobsters keep growing their entire lives, and can live to be over 100 years old.
The largest lobster ever caught weighed over 20 kilograms.
25
In Jewish mythology, Adam had a wife before Eve. Her name was Lilith.
17
People from Moscow are known as Muscovites.
267
For a long time, Frank Beard was the only member of ZZ Top that
didn't have a beard. But he finally relented and grew one in 2013.
136
The U.S. state of Maine was a part of Massachusetts before becoming its own state in 1820.
10
Fortune cookies were invented in the United States by a person who was born in Japan.
320
During WWII, Allied soldiers built airplane runways on remote islands in Oceania. These runways were used to land
valuable supplies for the war effort. Native people on these islands observed this correlation and built runways of the own,
hoping that supply-laden planes would land there. This phenomenon is known as a “cargo cult".
299
NBA teams have been a great investment for NBA owners. In 2014, Donald Sterling sold the
Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion. He purchased the team for just $12.5 million in 1981.
That means the value of the team appreciated at over 24% per year.
1 Comments
ZooTuber3000
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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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