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Very, very big mood

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(My family needs to take a page from Canada…)

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Ahem

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@Pickles group

Fun Fact #122

Psychopaths only make up about 16% of jail population, which is about 1% of the whole population, making it about as common as bulimia (at least in the US. Not sure about other countries)

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@Starfast group

Fun Fact #123

The warehouses in which Nazis stored possessions of prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp were nicknamed "Canada" since because it was seen as a place that had lots of wealth.

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@Pickles group

Fun Fact #124

Adult elephants can eat up to 300 pounds of food a day. i wish I could do that

Fun Fact #125
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Fun Fact #126
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Fun Fact #127
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
(guys this is groundbreaking)

Fun Fact #128

An average of 100 people chokes to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Fun Fact #128

An average of 100 people chokes to death on ballpoint pens every year.

(no)

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@Pickles group

Fun Fact #129

Monday is the best day to buy a new car

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(So you can run over yourself)

@Periwinkle_

Fun Fact #126
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

A-G-L-E-T AGLET don’t forget it!
We’re gonna tie the world together! One word at a time!

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@Pickles group

Fun Fact #130

The Victorian era saw a spike of female serial killers

@CWPoofToxicRush

Fun Fact #131

While "punk" is generally used as the name of a rebellion based music subculture, in the 40s, it was essentially the equivalent of calling some one a twink.

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Fun Fact #132

Male Geisha existed. During the Edo period in Kyoto and Osaka, geisha meant a houkan or male entertainer (幇間), and geiko meant a woman. Houkan (幇間) was a job to entertain the guests by showing their talent and helping the geiko and maiko (舞妓). By the Meiji era, the word geisha became a woman's word.

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@EmptyNebula group

Fun Fact #133:

By tomorrow, you will have forgotten 40% of what you have experienced today.

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@Starfast group

Fun Fact #134

Flushable toilets were popularized by a man named Thomas Crapper.

@Yamatsu

"You mean you don't just throw your shit out into the street?"
"No, his idea uses water to simply flush it away… THEN it goes out into the street."

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Fun Fact #135

In 2012 there were 905 natural catastrophes worldwide including severe storms, droughts, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, hail storms, typhoons, wildfires, and hurricanes.

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@evastardust groupRRAAAARRL
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Fun Fact #136
Only 20 people have been boiled alive in the Yellowstone National Parks

@CWPoofToxicRush

ONLY 20

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Only 20.

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Fun Fact #137:

Raw steaks that have traditionally been put on black eyes were done so because the meat is cold, not because it has any special healing properties.

@Yamatsu

Fun Fact #138:

The streptococcal virus can be passed on to any orifice of the body if it makes oral contact. In other words, don't eat your partner out if you have a sore throat. EVER. They will thank you profusely for this.

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@Mojack group

Fun Fact #139:

There are some parts of the universe we will most likely never see, as the universe is always expanding faster than light can reach it.

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@Starfast group

Fun Fact #140

CS Lewis put the lamp post in Narnia in response to JRR Tolkein telling him that no good fantasy book would have one in it.

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@Pickles group

Fun Fact #141

Tampons were originally used to plug bullet holes

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Fun Fact #142

Hurricanes can unleash roughly 2.4 trillion gallons of rain a day.