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Interesting Fact
182
Due to inbreeding, hemophilia was common among the royal lines of Europe.
57
In the book "Nineteen Eighty-Four", the British Isles are a region known as "Airstrip One".
253
A handful of people have fallen out of a plane without a parachute and survived.
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.
24
Syphilis has been called "The French Disease" by Italians, "The Italian Disease" by the French,
and "The Christian Disease" by Arabs. In reality, it probably came from the New World.
148
During the French Revolution, the government of France instituted a new calendar and time system.
All the months were renamed, a week had 10 days, a day had 10 hours, an hour had 100 minutes, and
each minute had 100 seconds. The changes didn't stick.
164
The American politicain John McCain was outlived by his mother.
She was 106 years old at the time of his death in 2018.
189
The word "thug" is derived from the Hindi word "thuggee". The Thuggees were gangs of robbers in India who
strangled and killed unsuspecting travelers in service to the goddess Kali.
However, some modern scholars dispute whether Thuggees really existed.
263
Cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, and collard greens are all
different cultivars of the same species, Brassica oleracea.
108
The plural of the word octopus is octopuses, not octopi.
193
"Coolth" is a word. It means the opposite of warmth.
327
Every U.S. state except one has recorded a temperature of at least 100° F. The one exception? Hawaii.
333
Peter the Great of Russia was extremely tall. At 6'8'' (203 cm) in height, he would
have been more than a foot taller than the average man of the time.
268
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.
99
According to playwright Anton Chekov, if a gun is introduced into a story, it must be fired at some point in the story.
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.
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.
243
More than 6 times as many Soviet soldiers died in WWII as American soldiers that died in all wars combined.
20
Alaska's "Little Diomede" island is just 2.3 miles from Russia's "Big Diomede" island.
341
"Nocent" is an archaic word that means guilty, the opposite of innocent.
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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