Fact of the Day

**Altobelli** · 21-01-2019, 04:23 PM

Toilets were found in many ancient Egyptian tombs.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...d-history.html

**Altobelli** · 22-01-2019, 07:41 PM

The "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign was created in 1959.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53454...w-about-nevada

**Altobelli** · 23-01-2019, 03:24 PM

Before Nazis used the salute commonly referred to as the ‘Hitler Salute,' Americans did it while saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

**Altobelli** · 23-01-2019, 03:25 PM

Some oysters, such as Eastern, change their genders based on environmental, nutritional, and physiological stresses, and sometimes annually.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...b0d9b28f04ec09

**Altobelli** · 23-01-2019, 03:28 PM

New Zealand's Ninety-Mile Beach is only 55 miles long.

**Altobelli** · 24-01-2019, 05:16 PM

Inner speech can clock in at 4,000 words per minute, 10X faster than verbal speech.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs...1990.71.3.1043

**Altobelli** · 25-01-2019, 06:26 PM

Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was only 53 years old when he died in 1924 after a series of strokes.

https://www.history.com/news/9-thing...vladimir-lenin

**Altobelli** · 26-01-2019, 04:56 PM

If all the blood vessels of the human body are laid end to end, they would round the world almost 2.5 times.

https://health.howstuffworks.com/hum...human-body.htm

**Altobelli** · 28-01-2019, 02:56 AM

Turtles have lived on earth even before the dinosaurs.

**Altobelli** · 28-01-2019, 03:01 AM

There is a Boston-based band known as "Anal ****," or A.C. for short.

https://www.last.fm/music/Anal+****

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