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#ot | facts and weird laws you didn't know about
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Until 2016, the “Happy Birthday” song was not for public use. Meaning that prior to 2016, the song was copyrighted, and you had to pay a license to use it.
There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backward question mark ⸮
Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.
Researchers have found that flossing your teeth can help your memory. Flossing prevents gum disease, which prevents stiff blood vessels, which cause memory issues.
A cluster of bananas is called a “hand.” Along that theme, a single banana is called a “finger.”
For nearly 60 years, Texas didn’t have an official state flag between 1879 & 1933. During that time, the Lone Star flag was active, but the unofficial flag.
A wildlife technician, Richard Thomas, took the famous tongue twister, “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood” and calculated a rough estimate of what the answer would actually be. It came out to be around 700 pounds.
Swedish meatballs originated from a recipe King Charles XII brought back from Turkey in the early 1800s.
Those cute furry bits inside a cat’s ear are called “ear furnishings.” They ensure that dirt doesn’t go inside and also helps them to hear well.
The Ethiopian calendar is 7.5 years behind the Gregorian calendar due to the fact that it has 13 months.
In 1994, the company that had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.
China is spending $3 billion dollars to build panda-shaped solar farms in order to get more young people interested in renewable energy.
Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons.
The average American child is given $3.70 per tooth that falls out.
To properly write adjectives in order, you would list them by amount, value, size, temperature, age, shape, color, origin, and material.
Scotland was one of the few countries able to hold off being conquered by the Romans in the first century A.D.
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We can tell also curious laws
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We can tell also curious laws
Opposites attract” is a common myth. People are actually attracted to people who look like family members or those with a similar personality type.
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We can tell also curious laws
I just want to remind u
I found a thousand of these facts
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Yea
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This can literally go on forever
Llamas can be used as guards against coyote attacks on sheep herds. Studies have proven that just one guard llama is an effective protector and can even kill the attacking coyotes.
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And takes likely many years until we have all facts
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Yes
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Hmm
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I think a few rules is a good idea
Anyway
The Vatican has the highest crime rate of any country in the world. Although, this is not because it has more crimes than other countries, but because it has more crimes per capita. These crimes are usually carried out by the millions of tourists that stream through the area. The most common crimes are shoplifting, purse snatching, and pickpocketing, and the official Vatican tourism website itself asks tourists to be alert at all times.
Is kinda sad how a religious country have most crime per capita
ot | facts and weird laws you didn't know about
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135 Swiss soldiers, known as the Pontifical Swiss Gaurd, is responsible for protecting the Pope. They were first hired in 1506 by Pope Julius II who needed personal protection from any enemies of the Church. They are easily recognizable in their colorful striped uniforms. Not anyone can join the Swiss guard; one has to be male, between 19 and 30 years old, and 5’ 8’’ tall. One must also be a Christian and must have completed basic military training.
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Hmm
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I don't think there 1000 facts we doesn't know there more than 1000
Anyway @scarlet wigeon
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We should better not say disburting facts
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Ye
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Wish discord add own thread rules
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Italian is the official language of Vatican City and is the language used for all official matters. Italian is also the lingua franca, but the Holy See uses Latin as its official language. The Vatican is also considered to be the de facto custodian of the Latin language. So, it might not be as surprising a fact then that the Vatican Bank's ATM offers instructions in Latin.
Vatican City has the shortest railway in the world. The station has two 300m tracks and has one station: Citta Vaticano. The railroad tracks and the train station were built during the pontificate of Pope Pius XI. No regular passenger trains are scheduled to run on it.
1981 Vatican purchased a state-of-the-art telescope, which is one of the world’s largest telescopes - the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope. Is in Mount Graham and the Vatican conducts astronomical research out of here
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Santa Claus was issued a pilot’s license by the U.S. government in 1927. They also gave him airway maps and promised to keep the runway lights on.
The word “velociraptor” comes from the Latin words “velox” which means swift, and “raptor,” which means robber. Literally – speedy robber!
When shuffling a deck of cards, the number of possible arrangements is approximately 8×1067. That’s more than the number of stars in the observable universe.
Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt, then gave the invention away for free. They decided it was too important of an invention to keep to themselves.
Rebecca Felton was the first woman to ever serve in the United States Senate – but she only served for one day.
The American roulette wheel is different from the European wheel. The American one has 2 green spaces while the European one only has 1. Although on both, if you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel, you will get 666
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In 2016, Mozart Sold More CDs than Beyoncé
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Lol
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Tic Tacs got their name from the sound they make when they are tossed around in their container.
Only official members of federally accepted Native American tribes may legally possess or collect eagle feathers. If a normal citizen has one, it is illegal.
500 seeds of 5 different types of seeds were taken into orbit around the moon and later planted around the U.S. as well as a few countries. They were called Moon Trees.
The popular LMFAO group that created the viral hit, Party Rock Anthem, is made up of an uncle-nephew duo.
There is a company in the U.K. that offers “being hungover” as a valid reason for calling off work. They are allotted four hungover days per year.
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This is weird and funny
The word ok was invented as a joke by a nerds at 1800s in Boston it was the short form of Oll korrect later the Fans formed the ok group and was a slang back then
There a similar version:
The word "Okay" or "OK" became popular when it was used in Van Buren's campaign. It stood for one of his nicknames "Old Kinderhook".
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500.000 earthquakes happens every single year around the world
100.000 of them can be felt
On 11 March 2011, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake which struck northeast Japan altered the distribution of the earth’s mass, causing it to rotate slightly faster, and shortening an earth day by around 1.8 microseconds.
The city of San Francisco is moving toward Los Angeles at the rate of about two inches per year. That's the same pace at which your fingernails grow. This is happening because the two sides of the San Andreas Fault are gradually slipping past one another. The cities will meet in several million years.
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Hmmm
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Chatgpt says is true that sf is moving toward to Los Angeles
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I see
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Hmmm
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South tyrol has 13 million tourism per year and is the same tourism number like Argentinia and brazil combined
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Sudan have the most pyramids in the world
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Bananas are berries
Strawberry isn't
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Nauru is the only nation in the entire world to be one island - every other country has at least three(Dominica is the lowest of those).