28 Fascinating Facts to Devour Your Boredom and Stuff You With Knowledge

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Jun 15, 2017 7:00 PM EDT
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    Animal sports - The biggest sports riot in history occurred in the Byzantine Empire in 532 AD between fans of opposing chariot racing teams. 30,000 people died KickassFacts.com
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    Text - When Robert Downey Jr.was eight, his father offered him drugs, which led him to a long life of substance and alcohol abuse. He credits Mel Gibson with helping him get sober and narcotic free. Kickass Facts.com
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    Photography - Emilia Clarke (who plays Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones) was doused in so much fake sticky blood during one scene that she got stuck to atoilet seat during a break. KickassFacts.com
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    White-collar worker - When Hungary conducted a poll to namea Danube River bridge Stephen Colbert hidP (hid is Hungarian for bridge)was the #1suggestion with 17million Votes, seven million more than the population of Hungary. KickassFacts.com
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    Text - Zach Braff punched a 12-year-old for spraying fake paint on his Porscheas part of a prank on the show Punk'd. The scene was edited out. Kickass Facts.com
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    Text - The Guinness Bookof Records recognizes the presidential electionof 1927in Liberia as the most fraudulent election reported in history.Although there were only 15,000 registered voters in Liberia at the time, Charles D.B.King received 234,000votesand won KickassFacts.com
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    Door handle - Door knobs made out of brass automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours through the oligodynamic effect KickassFacts.com
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    Text - Gotz von Berlichingen was a 16th century Imperial Knight who during one of the battles lost his right hand. He went on to build a new hand out of metal with adjustable fingers, ability to hold small and large objects, anything from a playing card to, to a sword. He became a mercenary and fought for highest bidders, ransomed people and even robbed merchants.With his ill-gotten gains he eventually bought the Hornberg castle and continued warring into his 60s. Kickass Facts.com
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    Photo caption - In the early 1990s, an unassuming middle-aged Texas woman named Peggy Jo dressed as a male cowboy and robbed several banks without using a weapon. She was eventually caught and served 15 years. Upon her release Cowboy Bob. now 60, robbed another bank and was klled during her escape when she pulled a toy gun on police. Kickass Facts.com
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    Olive - Green olives and black olives are not different species. The distinction reflects whether they were picked before or after ripening KickassFacts.com
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    Soldier - During the Afghanistan War, when his team was ambushed, outnumbered, and under fire, British Corporal Sean Jones ordered his men to fix bayonets and charge across 80 meters of open ground against Taliban forces. Enemy forces scattered, fleeing the fight due to this unexpected move. KickassFacts.com
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    Font - first attempted assassination of a United States president was stopped when then President,Andrew Jackson, beat his assailant brutally with his cane before being stopped by a nearby congressmen. Kickass Facts.com
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    Helicopter - f0.1913 n 1973, a helicopter landed in Dublin's Mountjoy prison exercise yard. The guards assumed it was a surprise inspection until three IRA prisoners got in and escaped. KickassFacts.com
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    Text - During the Second Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell was ordered to secure Mafeking for the British. Because his unit was running low on explosives, he ordered his men to start burying mysterious boxes filled with sand around town's perimeter, telling people and enemy sympathizers that they were powerful landmines. After running low on barbed wire, he just hammered wooden posts around town border and his men acted around them like there were real barbed wire strung from them. From enemy positi
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    Cheering - Sadney 20 Srdt Repo nay2 Spain cheated in the 2000 Summer Paralympics 10 of the 12 players on their roster were encouraged to pretend to be stupidand had no mental disability, 9 10 Kickass Facts.com
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    Water transportation - 451 All 217 residents in the town of Whittier in Alaska live in the same 14 story building The building has a school, hospital, church and grocery store. KickassFacts.com
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    Font - JR.R. Tolkien taught himself Finnish at 18, just so he could read one book, the Kalevala, which he used as a basis for Middle Earth legendarium. KickassFacts.com
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    Insect - Asingle ant can live to be 29 years old. Kickass Facts.com
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    Font - McDonald'sM If you win the million dollar prize on the McDonald's monopoly game, they actually pay you $50,000 per year for 20 years KickassFacts.com
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    Text - Over 60 percent of Chinese Cconsumers say they are willing to pay more for products labeled Made in USA" than for those labeled Made in China ATER RN 10 M/ NOMADE IN USA KickassFacts.com % CQ
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    Food - Canada consumes themost, doughnuts and has the most dou ghinut shops per capita of any country in the world Kickass Facts.com
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    Facial expression - When actress Delores Moran was 15 years-old she delivered a coffee to a man and never saw or heard from him again. He never mentioned her to anyone but when he died over 20 years later,he had left her $300,000 Kickass Facts.com
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    Face - Genie' a feral child was kept in a blacked out room strapped to a potty chair and forced to not make a sound by her father for the first 13 years of her life.When she was discovered she had the mental capacity of a 13-month old child.Shewas studied extensively after her release and helped our current understanding of how human beings develop language that goes beyond naming objects. Kickass Facts.com
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    Transport - South Africa is the only country to have everdeveloped its own nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantled them. Kickass Facts.com
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    Mobile phone - HT723G700457 Hame Google In late 2008 many critics thought Android would fail miserably whereas, as of Feb 2015, Android holds about 85% of the total smartphone OS market share. M Sench oo me se 700457 KickassFacts.com HT723G700457 FOOC
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    Text - Chinese mathematician Vitang Zhang was not able to get an academicjob upon graduating and had to work as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant He went on to solve a math problem that was unsolved for 150 years and won a MacArthur Genius Grant Kickass Facts.com
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    Strategy video game - Dian Wei was the personal bodyguard to the Wei King Cao Cao during 1st century Imperial China. His last stand took place during the Battle of Wancheng The local governor had launched a surprise nighttime attack on the King When the assassins approached the gates they found Dian Wei at the entrance with a pair of 40 pound axes. He killed at least 20 enemies before another group of assassins attacked him from behind and brought him down,but the King had managed to escape Kick
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    Text - During the Battle of Gallipoli from WWI Turkish Lt. Colonel Mustafa Kemal learned that allied ships were advancing to his coast and ordered his mento march there. When he arrived there, he saw Allied warships making landfall, and a group of Turkish soldiers running toward him, away from the fight.He told them, U'm not ordering you to attack! l'm ordering you to die!"n spite of smaller mumber and lesserammunition, Turks wonthe battle and Mustafa Kemal went on to become president of the Tur
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