Fact of the Day

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I'd heard something similar but very vague a few years ago Norder, thanks for clearing it up in my head.

The below quote has made me laugh with today's grip of Brexit

"perhaps we should have some sympathy for a nation gripped by a panic that we can only dimly imagine today".

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Before unifying Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi was a spaghetti salesman in Uruguay.


https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ruguay&f=false

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In the original script, "Rocky" ended with Rocky throwing the fight and opening a pet store for Adrian with the money he made.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/71528...t-rocky-movies

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The first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal wasn't aware of what she'd won, and records suggest she went her entire life oblivious to her historic achievement.


https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...t-even-know-it

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While most of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil (60%), it's also in Peru (13%), Colombia (10%), Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and three countries.

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Roses taken to space have more "floral rose aroma" than the same roses on Earth, according to a 1998 experiment by NASA.


https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstu...s_feature.html

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There is a town in Mexico where people have a huge fist fight to ask the gods for a good rainy season.


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8...-in-mexico-151

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Germany is the world capital of ***** enlargement, with roughly 8 in 100,000 adult German males opting for the procedure.

https://www.medicaldaily.com/*****-e...ly-work-296042

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Studies have found that rats are actually kind and generous.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...creatures.html

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The porcupine has natural antibiotics in its skin to protect it from infections.