20 Fun Facts to Slay Your Boredom This Saturday

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    Text - Fact #181 FactRepublic.com In 2003, Angelina Jolie purchased 60,000 hectares of Cambodian land that was infiltrated by poachers and turned it into a wildlife reserve. Some of the former poachers were employed as rangers.
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    Font - KEY Fats, Oils& Sweets Fat (naturally occurring and added) Sugars (added) These smbols show tats and adsed supars n toods uSE SPARINGLY Fact #174 Milk, Yogurt & Cheese Group Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs & Nuts Group 2-3 SERVINGS 2-3 SERVINGS Vegetable Group Fruit Group 3-5 SERVINGS 24 SERVINGS Bread, Cereal, Rice & Pasta Group FactRepublic.com 11 SERVINGS The original food pyramid given to the US govt by nutritionists was altered for the benefit of the food industry and grain grow
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    Dog breed - Fact #188 FactRepublic.com German animal protection law prohibits the killing of vertebrates without proper reason. Because of this ruling, all German animal shelters are no-kill shelters.
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    Text - Fact #190 FactRepublic.com Steve-O was a clown and graduated from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
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    Text - Fact #178 FactRepublic.com A man named Steve Comisar sold a 'solar-powered clothes dryer' for $39.99. Once he received the money, customers were mailed a clothesline.
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    Cartoon - Fact #186 FactRepublic.com Cartman from South Park described independent films are just about "gay cowboys eating pudding" a full 7 years before the independent film "Brokeback Mountain" came out.
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    Text - Fact #189 FactRepublic.com On 21 August 1986, a small lake 'Lake Nyos' in Africa killed 1,700 villagers and 3,500 livestock overnight when it suddenly released 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide, suffocating everything within 16 miles. Scientists still don't know what triggered the event.
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    Text - Fact #171 FactRepublic.com Jennifer Aniston by 1994 had appeared in four failed TV sitcoms. The depressed actress approached Warren Littlefield of NBC at a gas station, wondering if she would ever succeed in Hollywood. The network executive encouraged her to continue, and later that year cast her in 'Friends'
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    Text - Fact #177 FactRepublic.com In 2010 an MI6 spy Gareth Williams was found dead, his naked body inside padlocked bag in his flat in London. The Metropolitan Police concluded that he had accidentally locked himself in the bag and died as a result.
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    Text - Fact #185 FactRepublic.com Former president of Liberia Charles King holds the Guinness World record for the most fraudulent election ever having won the 1927 election with 234,000 votes in a country of 15,000 voters.
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    Text - Fact #180 FactRepublic.com In 2005, the BBC asked readers to vote for individual band members to create an "Ideal Supergroup." They voted for Led Zeppelin.
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    Text - Fact #173 FactRepublic.com DC Comics' original candidate for its first headlining black superhero was the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress. Comics historian Don Markstein called it "An insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all." I1
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    Money - Пmин и 50 50 ттт Fact #183 20 5 CH 98037 175 BI 02140 FactRepublic.com A movement seeks to rename the Australian dollar to the "Dollarydoo", based on a classic 'The Simpsons' episode. Doing so would increase demand for the currency and strengthen the Australian economy, organizers claim. LO
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    Face - Fact #176 FactRepublic.com Marvel pays Stan Lee $1 million a year for life just for being Stan Lee.
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    Text - Fact #179 FactRepublic.com The "Star Wars kid" (Ghyslain Raza) is graduated from law school and since 2013 he's trying to help other who suffer bullying.
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    Text - Fact #175 2 ITC FactRepublic.com Art historians dismissed some doodles in da Vinci's notebooks as "irrelevant." But in 2016 a Cambridge professor Hutchings found that one page of these scribbles actually contained the first written records demonstrating the laws of friction.
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    Text - Fact #182 FactRepublic.com During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a Native American completed all four feats required to be a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy's weapon, leading a war party and stealing 50 horses from the SS, singing a Crow honor song as he rode away.
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    Organism - Fact #184 FactRepublic.com In 2011, a red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis) that was believed to be extinct for 113 years casually showed up on the handrail on the front porch of an ecolodge in Colombia and let researchers photograph it for two hours before disappearing into the night, after which it was never seen again.
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    Text - Fact #187 FactRepublic.com Diarrhea was the leading cause of death in the American Civil War and soldiers had an honor code against shooting someone that was pooping.
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    Team - Fact #172 FactRepublic.com From 1902-1907, a group of 12 scientists regularly ate dangerous, common food additives that had previously been untested, such as formaldehyde, and documented how they reacted to said additives. They were known as "The Poison Squad," and helped spur the creation of the FDA.
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