Fact of the Day

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer used to work 130 hours a week.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-a7174201.html

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Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or even overtly ***ual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_M...he_Middle_Ages

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Manhole covers are round so that they don't fall into the opening.

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There are no 24 hours in a day. It has 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time

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30% of mass killings appear to have been inspired by previous killings covered by media, a study found.


https://www.newsweek.com/media-repor...hooting-378866

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Two-thirds of all US$100 bills are held outside the US.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2...utside-the-u-s

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George Washington suffered from diphtheria, tuberculosis, smallpox, dysentery, malaria, tonsillitis, carbuncle, pneumonia, and epiglottitis.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/56532...rge-washington

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Novelist Guy de Maupassant denounced the Eiffel Tower as a "useless and monstrous" structure. He liked to eat his meals in the restaurant at the tower's base, as it was the only place where he didn't have to look at it.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...?frame=2639112

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Over 300 people died in a supermarket fire in Paraguay because the owners shut the doors so people wouldn't leave without paying.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ycu%C3...permarket_fire

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When David Bowie wanted to walk around in New York without being bothered, he simply carried a newspaper in Greek, so that people would think "no, that can't be him."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...ters-publisher