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 the age of eleven: $6,400. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour is 61,000. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. The […]
Category: Fantastic Facts
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. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 5. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
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 with 35 of them. (The mortician later theorized that alchohol may have been involved. :-)) 14. George Washington died in the last hour of the last day of the last […]
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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 and confiscated the note, the man became abusive. 2. Ton DeBlois from Randolph, MA, was born blind but began to play the piano at the age of two. He now […]
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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 snob that he refused to be buried in Westminster Abbey – because it was the last resting place for too many mediocre artists. 3. American Airlines saved an estimated $40,000 […]
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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 cyst. During the operation, the patient’s weight fell from 616 pounds to 308 pounds. 2. Greatest Airline Passenger Load The greatest passenger load carried by a single commercial airliner […]
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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 on January 4, 1993. Source: 1998 Guinness Records Calendar.
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. Guinness Book of World Records, 1998 Calendar (1998? So perhaps there is a new record holder by now?)
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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 watery utterances’ Source: Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts; Wings Books
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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
