Daily Random Facts

[DaveM]

There’s a Japanese town that looks just like Sweden, sells Swedish folk crafts, and celebrates Swedish traditions. Sweden Hills, located on Hokkaido island, hosts Swedish festivals throughout the year and is popular with tourists.

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[DaveM]

The football huddle was first used at a college for the deaf in the 1890s so the players could keep their signing hidden from the opposing teams. (Source)

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[DaveM]

Lay your arm on a flat surface and push your thumb and pinky together. If you don’t see a raised band across your wrist, you are a product of evolution. If you do, you’ve got a useless extra muscle in your arm that is slowly being erased from our genetic code. (Source)

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[DaveM]

The town of Nördlingen, Germany, was built inside an old crater from a meteor that once crashed into the countryside. Residents have incorporated parts of the meteor into their town, including the church – which is encrusted with meteorites and microscopic diamonds. (Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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[DaveM]

‘Backpfeifengesicht’ is the German word for ‘a face that’s badly in need of a punch’. (Source, Source 2)

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[CarlS]

I know some folks who qualify!

 

[DaveM]

Psychopaths are more likely to stay friends with their exes. It’s not for sentimental reasons, but for practical ones, like being able to hook up with them again or borrow money in the future. (Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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[DaveM]

Old-timey ‘high-wheeler’ bicycles were also known as ‘penny farthings’, because people thought they looked like the largest (penny) and smallest (farthing) coins of the day rolling after each other. The reason one wheel was oversized was that they had no gears or chains, and the only way to make them go faster was by having...

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[DaveM]

Pineapples were a sign of wealth in 18th-century England. They were so expensive that you could rent them by the night and take them to parties with you as a status symbol. (Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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[DaveM]

Curiosity is fueled by what you already know. You’re far more likely to be curious of the things you already know a little about than you are of something you know a lot about or know absolutely nothing about. (Source, Source 2)

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[DaveM]

Thomas Jefferson was afraid of public speaking. He had terrible stage fright, added accent marks to his copy of the Declaration of Independence in case he ever had to read it aloud, and often faked illness to avoid giving speeches. He was so opposed to public attention that about 20 pages into his own autobiography,...

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[DaveM]

If you dip your face into freshly-fallen snow and take a picture of the imprint with your flash on, you’ll likely end up with a 3D image of your face.

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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[DaveM]

Women of all ages are more likely to survive in times of crisis.

A study of the last 250 years shows that women have longer life spans during famine or disease epidemics, and female survival rates are especially higher during infancy.

(Source, Source 2)

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[DaveM]

When Kevin Bacon goes to a wedding reception, he bribes the DJ so they won’t play Footloose.

“I go to the disc jockey and hand him $20 and say, ‘Please don’t play that song’, because, first off, a wedding is really not about me. It’s about the bride and groom. And… it’s embarrassing. ”

(Source)

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[DaveM]

If you want to know whether a diamond is real, breathe on it.

Diamonds are very efficient heat conductors, so the fog from your breath will disappear almost immediately if it is real.

If the fog sticks around a few seconds before clearing up, the rock is probably a fake.

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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[DaveM]

In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot just before giving a speech.

He began with: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. Fortunately I had my manuscript – I was going to make a long speech – and there is where the bullet went through, and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best…” then kept talking for 1.5 hours before finally agreeing to seek medical attention.

(Source, Source 2)

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[DaveM]

Benjamin Franklin designed America’s very first one-cent coin, which was engraved with the caption: “Mind your business.”

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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[DaveM]

Putting hydrogen peroxide on a cut does more harm than good. Though it does kill the bacteria, it also kills healthy cells – and that slows down the healing process.

(Source)

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[DaveM]

Charles Darwin was the first person known to put wheels on an office chair. He liked being able to roll around his office so he could study different specimens more quickly.

(Source, Source 2)

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[DaveM]

It’s so hard to understand the words to The Kingsmen’s famous rendition of “Louie Louie” that kids used to make up their own versions of the lyrics and pass them around in notes.

There were so many suspicious parents reporting it for being obscene that the FBI began an investigation. They spent over 2.5 years playing the song backwards, forwards, and and every which way they could think of, but they eventually gave up after determining the words were “indecipherable at any speed.”

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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