Fact of the Day

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Before he became an actor, Clint Eastwood survived a plane crash, avoided jellyfish, and swam to shore.


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fe...t-sully-947346

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The artist formerly known as Prince was obsessed with lavender and that's how you knew he was entering a room: you would smell the lavender.


https://www.gq.com/story/prince-stories/amp

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There are more than 400 million fewer European birds now than there were 30 years ago.

https://www.newsweek.com/european-bi...ent=1415116485

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In older versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl and the wolf eat grandma together.

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Most of a sperm whale's head is filled with a fatty, yellow tissue called "junk."

http://mentalfloss.com/article/70208...animal-kingdom

[Norder]

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Interesting read Norder

difficult to believe - Alto....but is True, Sadly !

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There are more than 400 million fewer European birds now than there were 30 years ago.

https://www.newsweek.com/european-bi...ent=1415116485

According to a study published this week in the journal Ecology Letters, the quantity of birds in Europe has declined by more than 20 percent in the past 30 years. While there were over 2.1 billion European birds in 1980, there are now around 1.6 billion, says study co-author Rich Inger, an ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
The decline is likely due in part to habitat loss and pesticide use.....

Very worrying.....also strange (imo) - how Mobile Phone Masts (microwave emissions) are never thought to be a possible cause !

Cheers.

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Female elephants have the longest reproductive anatomy of any land mammal: her vagina is located 1.3 meters into her body.

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50% of Netflix users watch an entire season of a TV show in just one week.

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A bottle of champagne contains 90 pounds of pressure per square inch, which is 3 times the pressure found in car tires.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...1217091015.htm

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During the Industrial Revolution, 10-to-16-hour workdays were normal. Ford was the first company to experiment with an eight-hour day – and found its workers were more productive.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/201...ing-a-lot-less