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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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Last updated: November 24, 2019
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Interesting Fact
318
Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the "Heimlich maneuver", never used his own technique until very late in life.
Atr age 96, he employed the maneuver to save a woman in his nursing home from choking.
88
White smoke coming from the Sistine Chapel announces the election of a new pope.
Black smoke indicates that a new pope has not yet been chosen.
128
Nearly 25% of women living in England in the year 1800 were named Mary.
232
The Mekong river catfish can reach weights of up to 350 kilograms.
250
Turkeys can reproduce asexually. However, the offspring are generally not robust.
249
The Gullah are an African-American culture from the coastal areas and islands of Georgia and South Carolina.
They speak a creole language that is a mixture of English and African languages.
Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas spoke Gullah as a first language.
45
Arsenic trioxide was sometimes known as "inheritance powder" because of its
common use as a poison. Rates of poisoning decreased after the invention of the
Marsh Test in 1836 which made it possible to detect Arsenic in human remains.
314
The Harlem Globetrotters used to be a serious basketball team. In fact, in 1948, they beat the
Minneapolis Lakers, considered by many to be the best team in the country.
355
Many people believe that, in the early United States, only white male landowners over the age of 21 could vote.
But the Constitution said nothing of the sort. Voter eligibility was left up to the states. African-Americans and women
were eligible to vote in many states prior to the Constitutional amendments that gave them the vote universally.
17
People from Moscow are known as Muscovites.
27
In the earliest comics, Superman couldn't fly. This explains why his ability to
"to leap tall buildings in a single bound" wasn't completely redundant.
160
Cunningham's law states that the best way to get the right answer on the internet
is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
120
Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name was Roosevelt. She was distantly related to her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt.
114
Cook Monument marks the spot where the famous British explorer
James Cook was killed by native Hawaiians. Today, it is a popular snorkeling location.
220
Cow tipping is a purported activity where a person topples a cow that is sleeping standing up. It is considered a myth.
For one, cows generally sleep lying down. Secondly, the force required to tip a cow would require at least four people.
274
In the year 1913, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, and Freud all lived in the city of Vienna.
325
The word "arena" derives from "harena", the latin word for sand. In ancient Roman times,
gladiatorial arenas would be covered with sand to absorb the blood that was shed there.
291
In Communist Romania, the secret police was known as the Securitate. 1 in 43 Romanians was an informer.
90
The unmatched count method allows researchers to get
accurate responses to questionsthat people might normally lie about.
173
In one of the greatest upsets of all-time, the racehorse "Man o' War"
lost to a horse named "Upset" at the 1919 Sanford Stakes.
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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