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50 Amazing Facts to Help Bolster Your Knowledge!

many will surprise you!!

By Peter Pizagalli

Published 11 years ago

many will surprise you!!

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The SarcMark was invented by Paul Sak to emphasize a sarcastic phrase, sentence or message

2
Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration

3
Only one McDonalds in the world has turquoise arches. Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock

4
Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls

5
Redondo Beach, CA adopted the Goodyear Blimp as the city's official bird in 1983

6
Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix after racking up a 40 late fee on a VHS copy of Apollo 13

7
The original Space Jam website still exists.

8
The actor who was inside R2-D2 hated the guy who played C-3PO, calling him the rudest man I've ever met

9
The American Psychiatric Associations DSM-V handbook classifies caffeine withdrawal as a mental disorder

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The first webcam watched a coffee pot. It allowed researchers at Cambridge to monitor the coffee situation without leaving their desks

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The light emitted by 200,000 galaxies makes our universe a shade of beige. Scientists call the color cosmic latte

12
The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia

13
The Pittsburgh Penguins made Mister Rogers an honorary captain in 1991

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New Mexico State's first graduating class in 1893 had only one studentand he was shot and killed before graduation

15
The Scots have a word for that panicky hesitation you get when introducing someone whose name you can't remember "tartle"

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There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne pictured at home in 2010 sold his 10 stake for 800 in 1976

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There's a basketball court above the Supreme Court. It's known as the Highest Court in the Land

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Truman Show Delusion is a mental condition marked by a patient's belief that he or she is the star of an imaginary reality show

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93

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unfriend-The word unfriend appeared in print all the way back in 1659

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When fruit flies are infected with a parasite, they self-medicate with boozethey seek out food with higher alcohol content

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When the Westboro Baptist Church protested a soldier's funeral in Oklahoma, their tires were slashed. People in town refused to repair them

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When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X

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Wilford Brimley was Howard Hughes's bodyguard

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William McKinley was on the 500 bill, Grover Cleveland was on the 1,000, and James Madison was on the 5,000

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In 1986, Apple launched a clothing line

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Barry Manilow did not write his hit I Write the Songs

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He did, however, write State Farm's Like a Good Neighbor jingle

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And I am stuck on Band-Aids, cause Band-Aid's stuck on me

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A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap'n Crunch because Crunch Berries contained no berries of any kind

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An early ATM was deemed a failure because its only users were prostitutes and gamblers who didnt want to deal with tellers face to face

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At one point in the 1990s, 50 of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL

33
Before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today, Disney considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful

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Bob Ross on his Air Force career I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrinewho screams at you for being late to work

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Chock Full o' Nuts coffee does not contain nuts. It's named for a chain of nut stores that the founder converted into coffee shops

36
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? But on average, a Licking Machine made at Purdue needed 364

37
Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins also wrote for Clarissa Explains It All

38
In 1980, Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city

39
The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B

40
In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family 16 million for the film of JFK's assassination

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In 2001, Beaver College changed its name to Arcadia in part because anti-porn filters blocked access to the school's website

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In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price rose to 3,000 before eBay shut it down

43
In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck

44
In Spain, Mr. Clean is known as Don Limpio

45
In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown's sister Sally

46
kentucky-old-and-new-logoKentucky tweaked its Wildcat logo in 1994 after people complained the tongue was too phallic

47
leopards The Arkansas School for the Deaf's nickname is the Leopards. The Deaf Leopards

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mao-kissinger In 1973, Mao Zedong told Henry Kissinger that China had an excess of females and offered the U.S. 10 million Chinese women

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Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer

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In Qaddafi's compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice

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