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TheAngelOfWar
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This thread is a series of unusual and interesting facts.

What kind of facts? Facts from all corners of the world; from book authors to exercise to quantum physics!

I will start off with number 1 and we will ascend from there, feel free to add on, just get the number right. Also this could be a forum game but it kinda isn't so correct me if I'm wrong.

1. You can hold plutonium in your hand and 'not' have your well being harmed, just don't breath it in.

2. You can't prove that the world was created one minute ago and we're filled with (technically) false memories.

3. The word bullet comes from the French word Bulle which means 'ball'.

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SportShark
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@MattEmAngel I think this like count to a 100, only here we are using interesting facts and counting to 1000 instead of 100. I know you'll let me know if I'm wrong. So,

5. The biggest building in the world going by volume is a Boeing aircraft plant in Washington state. (I saw this on TV last night).

SirLegendary
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6. I'm pretty sure he meant "1000 things You Didn't Know."

Doombreed
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Somebody change the title please! Thanks in advance

7. The largest living organism on Earth is a massive (8.9 square kilometers) fungal colony under Mahleur National Forest, in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, US.

StarShooter6
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I like geography..ok

8)In Brazil,there's a desert in Maranhao that is full of lakes and rivers almost like it's flooded.This is called paradoxical juxtaposition(idk what that is),it is currently a national park named Lencois Maranhenses.(It's not everyday that you can see a flooded desert)

Also can I do more in the future.

HahiHa
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Added 'Facts' to the title, works for you @TheAngelOfWar ?

9. Phylliroe is a nudibranch, a type of sea slug, that has the particularity of looking and swimming like a fish. [link]

3. The word bullet comes from the French word Bulle which means 'ball'.

Close, but not quite. According to etymonline.com it comes from boulette ("cannonball, small ball&quot, diminutive of boule ("ball&quot. Bulle is actually French for "bubble"
minecraftsniper
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10. We dont use just 10% of our brain we use all of it

11. Chewing Gum doesn't take 7 years to digest , it just passes through the digestive system normally

12. Columbus didn't prove that the world is round , Greek did in 600 BCE

09philj
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13. Abraham Lincoln was inducted into the wrestling hall of fame.

14. If you earned $5000 a year you would be in the top 20% of highest wages in the world.

15. There is one licensed gun shop in Mexico.

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16. You probably didn't know this fact
17. Nor this
18. Neither this one
19. But you probably know this
20. Except you didn't

dorukayhan
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21 - there are actually other people who use my armatar! however i dont know how many people use it

pangtongshu
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(Ignoring last two because they are DUMBS)

16) George Clooney portrayed Batman as if Batman were gay

09philj
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17) Stanley Kubrick Financed his early movies playing illegal chess for money in New York parks.

18) In the 12th century, one in ten Japanese people was a Samurai.

19) Ronald Reagan's chief of staff was Donald Regan.

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20) Obama is Christian.

Nah, only joking, he can't be.....surely not?
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20) Donald Trump attended Wharton School, widely held to be the top business school in the world, the sly cunning dog.

09philj
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21) The first image displayed on US television was a dollar sign.

minecraftsniper
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22) if you put the entire population of china in a straight line that line would never end cause of the high reproductions level there

minecraftsniper
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23.King Tut's parents were brother and sister
24. Marie Antoinette apoligized for stepping on the executioner's toe before she was beheaded
25. Shakespere and Pocahontas lived at the same time
26. a venus day is longer than a venus year
27. the population of mars consists entirely of robots
28. Oxford university is older than the aztec empire
29. on Saturn and on Jupiter rains diamonds
30. an octupus is felxible enough to pass through your entire body

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