10 Fun Facts That'll Crush Your Boredom This Monday

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mattstaff
May 29, 2017 4:00 PM EDT

It's Monday and you're presumably at work, and bored. Don't worry. We're here for you. We made this collection of 10 amazing facts to lift you right out of that boredom and possibly get you lost on trains of thought throughout the day. But hey, you won't be bored anymore. You're welcome. 

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  • 01
    Airplane - On 9/11, after both the towers were hit, some jet fighters took to the air without any live ammunition, knowing that to prevent the hijackers from striking anymore intended targets, the pilots might have to intercept and crash their fighters into the hijacked planes, ejecting at the last moment IFW KickassFacts.com
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    Fish - In the 1980, Swedish Navy detected underwatersounds that they suspected to be hostile Russian submarines. This suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It was later found by a researcher that these sounds came from fish farts and he won lg Nobel Prize (American parody of the Nobel Prizes) for this discovery KickassFacts.com
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    Photo caption - A Green Bay Packers fan used to donate blood often to afford tickets to games. He learned later on that he had a potentially fatal blood disease that was preventable through blood donation. He had unknowingly been saving his life the entire time 6
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    Drink - Until 2009, it was a tradition in Ireland that if you donated a pint of 17 GUIN GUINNESS bioad they d give you a opint of Guinness DRAUGHT DRAU
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    Forehead - In 1999, an Australian, Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes. Later, he was revived and lived unscathed. To celebrate his survival, he bought a scratch card & won a $27k car. The news team asked him to re-enact the scratch card moment so he bought another card & won a $250k jackpot in it KickassFacts.com facebook.com/kickassfacts
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    Professional wrestling - André the Giant was known to pay for his meal, regardless of whether he was the host or the guest. Once Arnold Schwarzenegger was about to pay for the meal and "found himself being physically lifted, carried back to his table and deposited in his seat by Andre, who stated emphatically, "I pay"
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    Medical procedure - Killing Season is a British medical term used to describe the time around August, when the newly qualified doctors join the National Health Service
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    Skin - In 1939, a stockbroker named Nicholas Winton brought 669 Czechoslovakian Jewish children to England, saving their lives. He refused to take credit for his deed until his wife found a scrapbook of the children that he saved and gave it to the BBC. He turned 104 this year
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    When McDonald's first introduced drive-throughs 超市 to China, the concept was so foreign that many people would pick up their food through the drive-thru, park their cars, and bring the food inside the restaurant to eat it STORE
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    Text - A high school student was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning. She fell 3.2 kilometers to the ground still strapped to her chair and lived, only to endure a 9 day walk to the nearest civilzation. She was the lone survivor from the crash KickassFacts.com facebook.com/kickassfacts
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