Posts in Fantastic Facts

Trivia 2

For your Monday Morning Edification (and perhaps complete waste of time? 🙂 ) Coca-Cola was originally green. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to[…]

Tantalizing Trivia

1.  A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. 2.  Women blink twice as much as men. 3.  It’s physically impossible to lick your elbow.  4.[…]

Fantastic Facts 2015

From November 2015:  13.   Jackie Bibby holds the record for sitting in a bathtub with the most live rattlesnakes.  He sat in a tub[…]

Fantastic Facts 7

1.  Police arrested a man after he handed over a fake million-dollar bill at a Pittsburgh, PA, supermarket and asked for change.  When staff refused[…]

Fantastic Facts 6

1.  The Sahara Desert is as large in area as the U.S.A. 2.  Sir Godfey Kneller (1646 – 1723), famed English painter, was such a[…]

Fantastic Facts 5

1.  Longest Operation  A 96-hour operation was performed on Mrs. Gertrude Levandowski from Feb 4 to Feb 8, 1951, in Chicago, to remove an ovarian[…]

Fantastic Fact 4

The heaviest-ever rikishi, or sumo wrestler, is (was?) Samoan-American Salevaa Fuali Atisnoe (alias Konishiki) of Hawaii, who weighed in at 580 pounds at Tokyo’s Ryogaku Kokugikau[…]

Fantastic Fact 3

The most times any person has been struck by lightning is seven.  Ex-park ranger Roy C. Sullivan earned this dubious distinction over a 35-year period.[…]

Fantastic Fact 2

8/18/14: The press response to President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was less than fantastic.  The Chicago Times, for instance, felt Americans should be embarrassed by the ‘dish[…]

Fantastic Facts 1

8/11/14: The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure that is visible from space. Source: More Fascinating Facts by David Louis; Crown Publishers

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