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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
183
About 50% of the world's gold was mined in South Africa.
94
Only about 3% of the soldiers who died in the Vietnam War were American.
120
Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name was Roosevelt. She was distantly related to her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt.
197
Shanghai is a word. It means to force or trick someone to working on the crew of a ship.
330
Humans aren't the only organisms to change the climate. It first happened about 2.4 billion years ago when
photosynthesizing microbes evolved. They changed the Earth's atmosphere by sucking up carbon dioxide
and emitting oxygen. The changes were so extreme that the entire Earth became covered in ice.
The equator was colder than Antarctica is today. This phenomenon is known as "Snowball Earth".
313
The Basque language, spoken in parts of Spain and France, is not closely related to any other known language.
241
It is possible to tell if a piece of steel was made before the 1940s. This is because there is a tiny amount of
background radiation in the air from the testing of atomic bombs. Any steel made after 1945 has this signature inside it.
157
The color orange was not used in the English language until 1512.
And in case you're wondering, the color was named after the fruit.
352
Live Aid was a pair of concerts held in London and New York in 1985 to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief.
Unfortunately, much of the money raised by the concerts ended up in the hands of the brutal communist regime
that had caused the crisis in the first place. Some of the money was used to buy weapons.
312
Of all the legal tender coins made by the U.S. mint, every one is made
mostly of copper except the penny which is 97.5% zinc.
298
The Tunguska event was an incident in 1908 where 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest were
flattened by a huge explosion. It is thought to have been caused by an asteroid impact, and if so would be the
largest such event in recorded history. Only two deaths were reported.
221
Cows kill more people than sharks.
6
Jimi Hendrix was rated the #1 guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
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.
14
The city of Paris is not named after the figure from Greek mythology.
Instead, it is named for an ancient Celtic tribe called the Parisii.
69
The places in the original version of the board game "Monopoly" were inspired by Atlantic City, New Jersey.
311
The Berlin Brandenburg airport was originally scheduled to open in 2011. After a few delays, invitations to the
grand opening were sent in 2012. But then a problem appeared. And then another, and another.
As of 2019, the airport is still not ready. So much for German efficiency.
172
R.J. Smeed was a transportation researcher who theorized that automobile traffic in a city center will always move
at 9 miles per hour. Any faster, and more people will drive. Any slower, and fewer will.
140
Hanlon's razor states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
182
Due to inbreeding, hemophilia was common among the royal lines of Europe.
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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