49 More Kickass Fun Facts To Make Your Brain Bloated With Knowledge

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May 27, 2018 10:00 PM EDT

These are closer to "alternative facts", but either way, a big thanks to the folks over at KickassFacts for keeping us ever entertained with a steady stream of factoids. 

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    Photo caption - KickassFacts.com Test audiences hated 'Dirty Dancing and the producer was so disappointed in the final product he said "Burn the negative, and collect the insurance." Expected to be a box office bomb, instead was a smash hit,was the #1 video rental of 88, and was first film to sell a million copies on video.
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    Orangutan - Kickass Facts.com Apes don't ask questions. While apes can learn sign language and Communicate using it, they have neverattempted to learn new knowledge by askinghumans other apes. They don't seem to realize that other entities can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates mankind fromapes.
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    Landmark - KickassFacts.com In Switzerland, you can be denied citizenship for "being too annoying
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    Font - A wedding photographer was awarded $1,080,000 in a defamation suit when a couple refused to pay for a $125 fee. KickassFacts.com IS us 24-18
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    Dog breed - KickassFacts.com Dogs develop biteinhibition, the ability to control the strength of a bite, as puppies after learning that too harsh of bites often interrupt play
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    Text - KickassFacts.com The unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation.A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished, which means it was moving about 125,000miles per hour.
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    Facial expression - KickassFacts.com Loneliness is a greater health risk than obesity. Loneliness increases the risk of premature death by 50% while obesity increases the risk by only 30%.
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    Food - KickassFacts.com Quebec banned ads for toys and fast food aimed at children under 13, resulting in lowered childhood obesity rates.
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    Font - KickassFacts.com The band playing most of the songs on Michael Jackson's Thriller album was Tato
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    Photo caption - KickassFacts.com The mysterious baroque painter Johannes Gumpp is known to have painted only one self portrait which also happens to be atriple self portrait in which he appears from behind painting his own face reflected in a mirror.
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    Games - GeHe KickassFacts.com Mircosoft included Solitaire in their operating systems to soothe people intimidated by the operating system and introduce users to graphic user interfaces and taught them how to use a mouse.
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Barnum's American Museum had crowds that would linger inside too long To make way for new paying guests, signs saying This Way to the Egress were put up. Not knowing Egress was another word for Exit people followed the signs to what they assumed was a fascinating exhibit but ended up outside
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    Text - KickassFacts.com A secret room under the Medici Chapel is covered in charcoal sketches by Michelangelo, who lived there for three months while in hiding from the Pope.
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    Landmark - KickassFacts.com the holidays, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree milled into lumber and donated to Habitat for Humanity to be used for building homes.
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Chocolate for most of its 4,000-year history was actually consumed as a bitter beverage rather than as a Sweet edible treat.
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    Motor vehicle - KickassFacts.com If you publish a book in Norway the government will buy 1000 copies (1,500 ifa children's book) and distribute them to libraries throughout the country
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Aresearch study led by University of Oxford found out that atheists and highly religious peoplearethe ones least scared of death
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    Font - KickassFacts.com A second is called a second because it's the result of the second division of an hour by 60.
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    Font - KickassFacts.com When Apollo 11 landed, ithad only about 25 seconds of fuel left
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Instead of selling 6 shares for 610,000 yen atrader sold 610,000 shares for 6 yen, which resulted in a$100M loss for his company
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    Water - Benjamin Careathers is an American man who sued Red Bull in 2015, stating that after 10 years of consuming the product,he received no wings, or enhanced physical or intellectual performance. KickassFacts.com ed3 GRINE Gont
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Although children of identical twins are legally first cousins genetically, they areactually half siblings
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    Air show - KickassFacts.com In the Phillipines, some Catholics are voluntarily,non-lethally crucified for a limited time on Good Friday to imitate the sufferings of Christ. Pre-sterilised nails are driven through the palm of the hand between the bones, while there is a footrest to which the feet are nailed.
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    Text - KickassFacts.com A domino can knock over another domino that's a maximum of 1.5 times larger than itself. Based on that progression, if you started with a domino the size of a carbon atom,you could knock over the Burj Khalifa with a 1.22 kilometer tall domino in just 74 steps
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    Music - KickassFacts.com The Beatles had a specific clause in their contract that stated that they would not ever have to play for a segregated audience
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    Hair - KickassFacts.com Most Koreans don't produce body odor due to large dominance of the gene ABCC11. As a consequence deodorant is a rare commodity.
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    Text - 12 1 KickassFacts.com Clocks run from left to right because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast shadows 7645
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    Font - KickassFacts.com An Icelandic tradition called Jólabókaflód exists,where books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents and the rest of the night is spent reading them and cating chocolate
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    Vertebrate - KickassFacts.com It's estimated for every baby chimpanzee sold by traffickers, 10 adults were killed in defense of that 1 infant.
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Einstein mused that he would have liked to have been a plumber, and promptly was awarded honorary membership in the plumbers' union
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    Water - KickassFacts.com The USA spent 2 years building a fort to protect from Canadian invasion, but it was accidentally built in Canada. They abandoned construction and called it Fort Blunder
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Documents presented by a Pakistani official were found to be forged because they were written in Calibrisupposedly in 2006,but Calibri was only included in Microsoft Office 2007
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    Font - KickassFacts.com The Queen uses herpurse (handbag) to send secret messages to her staff, such as swapping which shoulder it is on when she's donetalking with a particular person and wants an excuse to leave the conversation.
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    Product - KickassFacts.com A typical microwave oven consumes more electricity powering its clock than it does heating food.
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Organ donation is onan optout basis in Singapore. Citizens who optout have a lower priority of receivingan organ should they need one
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    Animated cartoon - KickassFacts.com Speedy Gonzales cartoons were banned for a short while by Cartoon Network, due to perceived racial insensitivity. They were brought back the airwaves after fan campaigns, and the Hispanic American rights organization League of United Latin American Citizens called Speedy a cultural icon.
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    Text - KickassFacts.com The saying "when onedoorcloses, another opens" is a Alexander Graham Bll quote which he then followed by saying "but we so often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
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    Text - KickassFacts.com According to one story of his last Words, Voltaire's response to a priest at his deathbed urging him to renounce Satanwas "Now is not the time for making new enemies.
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    Box-sealing tape - Scotch Masking Tape Scotch Maskia Peeling scotch tape inavacuum produces radiation powerful enough to X-ray the human body. Scotch Maski Scot KickassFacts.com
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Apelles, an ancient Greek painter, was considered by many, including Pliny, to be the greatest artist in the world. Pliny recorded that Alexander the Great so admired Apelles's work that he gave his concubine to him. Today none of Apelles's original works have survived.
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    Home - KickassFacts.com Sears once offered mail order houses. You'd select your house then Sears would ship it to you by RailRoad and you'd assemble it yourself based on the instructions.
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    Face - Kickass Facts.com Children who are anxiously shy at an early age tend to display distinct patterns of brain activity in social situations ata later age. This manifests in the form of increased distress when anticipating unpredictable Social feedback.
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    Text - KickassFacts.com Sting, the wrestler, Owns the rights to the name "Sting Sting, the musician, reportedly pays the wrestler $1 per year to use the name.
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    Lady - KickassFacts.com When Dolly Parton went to a Dolly Parton look alike contest she lost to a man dressed like her.
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    Text - KickassFacts.com The Vikings had their own version of rap battling called dyting which is aritual, poetic exchange of insults practised mainly between the 5th and16th centuries
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    Plant - KickassFacts.com If you planted the seeds of a Granny Smith apple, you wouldn't get Granny Smith apple trees. Apples aren't true to seed.
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    Vehicle - KickassFacts.com Modern cruise control was developed by an engineer frustrated by his lawyer who kept speeding up and slowing down the caras he talked. AIRBA
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    Text - Kickass Facts.com Although iodine was added to table salt in the US. beginning in 1924 as an antidote to goiters caused by iodine deficiency, it had the unanticipated side effect of raising the national lQby an average of 3.5 points.
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    Bird - KickassFacts.com The bird, the Common Swift, can stay in the air for up to 10 months without landing, They can even sleep and mate while flying
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