Useless Fact of the Day
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This year is the last 'teen' year most people will ever see, the next is 2113.3
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In York, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow within the city walls. Except on a Sunday, of course - that would clearly be silly.
This law is thought to orginate in the 15th Century. It's possible that more modern laws supersede it...2 -
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"The founders of Hewlett-Packard flipped a coin to determine whose name would come first in the company."2
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Flies jump backward during takeoff.1
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Hummingbirds can't walk.0
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The Telegraph was the first invention that could reliably deliver information faster than it could be carried.1
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Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.
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The guy in the song Fireflies by Owl City gets "a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs." So 1 in 10 fireflies like him. Therefore he's pretty unpopular with fireflies.2
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The official weather in New York City was recorded by the zoo keeper in Central Park until the 1970s.1
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The "For Dummies" book series started with "DOS for Dummies" in 1991. The creator overheard someone in a bookshop ask if there was "a book about DOS for dummies like me". Since then the series has grown to about 2,500 titles with more than 200 million books in print.2
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Thermometers are speedometers for atoms.5
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When two animals from different species mate, their offspring are sterile.0
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lauragreenbaum wrote: »When two animals from different species mate, their offspring are sterile.
Different species can't mate.0 -
lauragreenbaum wrote: »When two animals from different species mate, their offspring are sterile.
Different species can't mate.
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Pistol Dueling was an Olympic sport.0
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TheMrWobbly wrote: »lauragreenbaum wrote: »When two animals from different species mate, their offspring are sterile.
Different species can't mate.
Oops, I was thinking Genus and Family. I knew about mules and zebroids.
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No one called it a “photographic” memory until the camera was invented.4
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Ligers and Tigons and Pizzlies, oh my.2
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