Educate Yourself With These 10 Highly Interesting Facts

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May 13, 2017 11:00 AM EDT
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    People - Fact #142 FactRepublic.com In 1992, a man in Texas was sent to death row for murdering his kids by arson. He was executed by lethal injection in 2004. In 2009, through advances in technology, it was found that the fire was likely accidental. According to an expert, "There was no item of evidence that indicated arson."
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    Text - Fact #144 FactRepublic.com There's a version of "The Tortoise and the Hare" where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
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    Photo caption - Fact #148 FactRepublic.com The wet wipe industry and sewerage companies are fighting over what it means to be "flushable" with the sewerage companies claiming that they had to remove lumps as big as 10 tons from their sewer systems.
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    Text - Fact #150 FactRepublic.com John Clem was a drummer boy in the Union Army during the Civil War, who at age 11, shot a Confederate colonel who had demanded his surrender. Promoted to sergeant, he became the youngest NCO in Army history. He retired in 1915 as a general and the last actively-serving veteran of the Civil War.
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    Text - Fact #147 W LOTT REA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS FactRepublic.com Walt Disney created multiple fake companies (like Real Estate) to buy Florida land in the 1960s. This lets him acquire what is now Disney World while avoiding suspicion and keeping prices low. The stores on Main Street shop windows are the names of those original companies.
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    Photo caption - PERSI Fact #145 FactRepublic.com After Michael Jackson's hair was accidentally set on fire during the shooting of a Pepsi commercial in 1983 he chose not to sue but instead asked Pepsi to fund the creation of a burn center
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    Text - Fact #146 FactRepublic.com When an aggressive schizophrenic man became so violent that formal psychological testing couldn't be done, doctors performed a CT scan, discovering a brain tumor. They surgically removed it, and he was schizophrenia-free two weeks later.
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    Text - Fact #141 FactRepublic.com Julia "Butterfly" Hill, on December 10, 1997, ascended 180 feet (55 m) up the redwood tree Luna to stave off Pacific Lumber Co. loggers who were clear-cutting. Hill lived on two 6-by-6-foot |(1.8 by 1.8 m) platforms for 738 days until a resolution was reached with the logging company.
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    Transport - Fact #149 SPEED LIMIT 40 FactRepublic.com Stringtown in Oklahoma has a population of 400. About 76% of the town's 2013 budget came from traffic tickets. After a state investigation into excessive speed trapping, the town's police department was disbanded.
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