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BoredMartian
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Ever have a fact that is pretty interesting and want to share it? Here is the place to do it! It can be anything, just not something that everyone knows.

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Tank345
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You [b]cannot see the Great Wall of China from outer space

xAyjAy
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Clownfish have no gender. Correct me if i'm wrong, but I think the biggest fish of the group is then the new female.

yes, they are all male except one female. if some of the males turns to a female the old female must die.

Fs97
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if some of the males turns to a female the old female must die.
Do the other males and/or new female murder it? Why not have two females? These fish now make zero sense to me.
Masterforger
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DEATH TO THE KINDEL
Sorry, my professionalism went away there.
Anyway, Six eight-stud LEGO bricks of the same color can be put together in 915,103,765 ways. Quite a few, right?

Alexistigerspice
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Nitrogen is the element that makes the sky blue.

The tallest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela.

Mickey Mouse was originally named Mortimer Mouse.

Kasic
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The tallest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela.


Little bit of a clarification, it's not the waterfall with the longest drop, it's the waterfall that's the highest in elevation in the world.
Alexistigerspice
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Ah, sorry. I should have said highest.
Arches are the least common type of finger prints.

Masterforger
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These fish now make zero sense to me.

Hence the name, Clownfish
For seven LEGO bricks of the same color; 85,747,377,755 combinations!
CalvinKidd137
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This sentence has seven words in it.
I have an AG account (not sure that that would be classified as interesting but still)
This is my third fact.

The sentence below this is false
The sentence above this is false

Masterforger
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"ahem", "um" and "ah" are recognized as correctly spelt words.

EmperorPalpatine
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Human urine was a common ingredient in mouthwash and toothpaste until the 1800s. Ancient Romans believed that Portuguese urine was the best quality.

dieath
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The man who discovered cows milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty.

The_DeVitor13
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a church in Omaha made it illegal to burp or sneeze in the church

EmperorPalpatine
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The man who discovered cows milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty.

Did you get that from Portal 2?

I think Ronald Reagan made a space defense system called Star Wars.

He proposed a plan called the Strategic Defense Initiative, which was commonly known as Star Wars, but it was never implemented because it would require an astronomical budget.

Tomato is a vegetable

Botanically it is a fruit, but a vegetable for cullinary purposes.
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two interesting facts about coke
1: it used to contain cocaine.
2:they made santa claus red, he used to be green.

Pizza origanily only had three toppings, tomato, motzarella, and basil because they are the colours of the Italian flag

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