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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
82
The Sahara has historically alternated between grassland and desert on a 41,000 year cycle.
Barring human-driven climate change, it is expected to become green again in around 15,000 years.
116
Coal mining and coal production have caused far more deaths than nuclear energy -
even accounting for the people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
262
The Patagonian toothfish was rebranded as "Chilean sea bass" to make it more appealing in the American
seafood market. This is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to the Patagonian toothfish.
208
Quetzalcoatlus was possibly the largest animal to ever fly.
A pterosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous, it had a wingspan of over 10 meters in length.
19
Angelina Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight.
279
Just before the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba went into effect in 1962, John F. Kennedy asked his
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger to get him 1,000 Cuban cigars.
304
"Tsar Bomba" was the most powerful weapon ever detonated. A hydrogen bomb tested by the Soviets in 1961,
it had the power of 50 million tons of TNT. This was over 3000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima,
and forty times as powerful as the nuclear weapons in the current U.S. arsenal.
224
A standard 185 gram frisbee can hold over three pints of beer.
112
The sandwich was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
309
The town of Monowi, Nebraska is the only incorporated place in the United States with a population of 1. Its sole
resident. Elsie Eiler, serves as mayor. She grants herself a liquor license to operate a tavern and pays taxes to herself.
229
In South Korea, it is a common belief that people can die if they sleep in a closed room with an electric fan running.
76
Hawaii is the only U.S. state that produces coffee commercially.
4
Lake Baikal is both the deepest and the oldest lake in the world.
156
The canary bird is named after the Canary Islands. The name of the islands
comes from the Latin "Canariae Insulae", which means "Island of the Dogs".
64
In Arthurian legend it is unclear whether Excalibur is the same as the Sword in the Stone. In some stories, they are.
In others, Excalibur is given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake after he had already become king.
211
The first person to walk on the moon was alive at the same time as the first person to fly in a plane.
62
U.S. politicians Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee were both born in the small town of Hope, Arkansas.
134
The city of Pasadena, Texas was founded in 1893. It was named after
the city of Pasadena, California which had been founded just seven years earlier.
108
The plural of the word octopus is octopuses, not octopi.
356
Freshwater snails are one of the deadliest creatures on the planet. They spread a parasitic flowworm that
infects tens of millions of people every year and kills about 10,000.
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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