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*. In 2002 alone, more people in the u.s were killed by dogs than shark attacks in the past 100 years.

In 200 years America will win this war and peace be restored for the citizens of the world.
Spend a little money.

Originally posted by The Spectre+
Feel Free To Post Facts That Might Not Be Known. Some Bizzarre, Some Funny, Some Stupid, Some Saddening... E.t.c
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*. In 2002 alone, more people in the u.s were killed by dogs than shark attacks in the past 100 years.
Well, hippos kill almost 3,000 ppl a year, so, sharks have some catching up to do!

Weird af:

The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine were a group of 19th-century lumberjacks who exhibited a rare disorder of unknown origin. The syndrome entails an exaggerated startle reflex which may be described as an uncontrollable "jump"; individuals with this condition can exhibit sudden movements.

At 26.2 new people per day, the average American meets 717,225 people throughout their lives, of which 10.76 are likely to be unapprehended murderers.

https://www.leozqin.me/how-many-murderers-will-you-walk-past/

Originally posted by riv6672
Well, hippos kill almost 3,000 ppl a year, so, sharks have some catching up to do! Hippos are way more dangerous then Sharks simply due to the fact of how aggressive and deceptively fast they are, and they have one of the strongest bite forces in the world. They've even had crocodiles as prey before.

A human could be bulletproof except the human would need to weigh more than 800 pounds so it's a advantage that has a colossal con.

Hitler made Volkswagen

Humans can get something similar to dandruff for a negative skin issue with scaly skin.

The first German serviceman killed in World War II was killed by the Japanese

Kangaroos are the only large animals that move by hopping. If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.

No matter where you are in Florida you are never more than 60 miles from the Ocean.

Men were the first people to wear heels.

The red sole on Louboutins are inspired by an Andy Warhol drawing.

Shoe sizes began with barleycorn.

Teddy Roosevelt was the first sitting president to leave the country.

Teddy Roosevelt was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club.

The name Manhattan comes from the Munsi language of the Lenni Lenape meaning island of many hills.

The name Chappaquiddick comes from a Native American word "cheppiaquidne" meaning "separated island", so named because this island is separated from Martha's Vineyard by a narrow strait or gut.

The word Quantico is a derivation of the name of a Doeg village recorded by English colonists as Pamacocack.

The first known stapler was made in the 18th century in France for King Louis XV.

Each staple was inscribed with the insignia of the royal court, as required.

The growing uses of paper in the 19th century created a demand for an efficient paper fastener.

33% of teachers leave within the first three years of beginning their careers.

Teachers may spend 10-15 hours on the weekend checking your essays though their contracts don't include this time.

The stress level of the average HS teacher can be compared with that of pilots and firefighters.

The fall of the Berlin Wall happened by mistake.

The Berlin Wall was erected more than 15 years into the Cold War.

More than 5,000 ppl escaped East Germany by going over and under the Berlin Wall.

Early fossil records show that sponges inhabited Earth around 600 million years ago.

Some deep-water sponges can live to be over 200 years old.

Sponges are master filters. They can filter an amount of water 100,000 times their size each day.

Lisa McDonald is the fictional daughter of Ronald McDonald. She was introduced in the year 2003 mainly for the promotion of Tomato McGrand in Japan.

The original Ronald McDonald was fired for being overweight. As McDonald did not wish to spread any wrong message amongst the kids against their processed food items.

Cave exploration is called caving, potholing, or spelunking.

Humans have used caves throughout history for burial grounds, shelter, and religious sites.

The maximum depth a cave can reach underground is about 9,800 feet (3,000 meters).

Before the advent of toothpaste, people used dry, rough things to clean their teeth such as pumice and crushed egg shell! ...

Toothpaste contains formaldehyde, the same chemical that is used for preserving bodies!

People with red hair are likely more sensitive to pain. This is because the gene mutation (MC1R) that causes red hair is on the same gene linked to pain receptors.

Rumor says Hitler banned marriage between redheads. Apparently he thought it would lead to "deviant offspring."

Bees have been proven to be more attracted to redheads.

Structurally, for houses, the basement walls typically form the foundation. In warmer climates, some houses do not have basements because they are not necessary (although many still prefer them). In colder climates, the foundation must be below the frost line.

Adding a basement to an existing house can cost $30,000-$70,000 or more.

Older homes built with crawl spaces or rooms without basements supported slightly above the ground often have very cold floors.

The Code of Hammurabi refers to a set of rules or laws enacted by the Babylonian King Hammurabi.

The code was dated back to nearly 1754 BC.

Squeaky Fromme spent time in prison for attempting to assassinate then-President Gerald Ford.

The owner of the Spahn Ranch where the Manson family lived for a time gave Fromme her nickname.

Fromme will be portrayed by Dakota Fanning on the big screen in 2019.

The longest river in the world, the Nile (4,132 miles), is located in Africa.

Victoria Falls is the largest waterfall in Africa; it is 355 feet high and one mile wide.

Africa is the world's second driest continent (after Australia).

There are over 129 million books in existence.

The most expensive book ever purchased was sold for $30.8 million.

The three most read books in the world are The Holy Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, and Harry Potter.

King Minos of Crete had the first ever flushing closet recorded in history and this was over 2800 years ago.

A toilet was discovered in the tomb of a Chinese King of the Western Han dynasty, dating back as far as 206 B.C.

Ancient Romans already had a sewage system running and they built latrines and outhouses over sources of running water and poured into the Tiber River.

In the early 1900s, the number of factories in the United States that manufactured brooms reached over 1000, although later, this number dropped by at least two thirds.

Brooms created before the 1800s were generally made by people at home, and were often impractical bundles of branches, grass and other fragile objects that collapsed under a few uses.

An average human being spends 6 whole years of his/her life dreaming.

An average person's dream is forgotten and in just 10 minutes, 90 percent of the dream is gone with the wind. However, if awakened at the REM (rapid eye movement sleep) stage, that person is more likely to remember the dream.

There are actually three different PC keyboards: the original PC keyboard with 84 keys, the AT keyboard also with 84 keys and the enhanced keyboard with 101 keys.

Although, the exact origin of jump rope activity is unclear. Some date jump roping to ancient China; however, the Western versions probably originated from 1600 A.D. Egypt.

According to Science Daily, 10 minutes of skipping rope is about equivalent to running an 8-minute-mile.

Odd Couple executive producers Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson had tried to get Martin Balsam as Oscar and Art Carney as Felix.

ABC Feared Oscar and Felix Would Be Perceived As Gay.

Wal-mart averages a profit of 1.8 million dollars every hour.

The average Wal-mart super center sells 140,000 items.

90% of Americans live within 15 minutes of a Wal-mart.

NBC launched what it called "the world's first regularly operating television network" on June 27, 1947, serving New York City, Philadelphia, Schenectady and Washington. Baltimore and Boston were added to the NBC television network in late 1947.

The world's first television stations first started appearing in America in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The first mechanical TV station was called W3XK and was created by Charles Francis Jenkins (one of the inventors of the mechanical television). That TV station aired its first broadcast on July 2, 1928.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was already a self-made millionaire at 22 years old before appearing in his first movie.

Employment of librarians is projected to grow 9 percent from 2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations. ... Therefore, there will be a continuous need for librarians to manage libraries and help patrons find information.

The Library Company was officially founded on July 1st, 1731 when Benjamin Franklin and Junto Club members signed the articles of agreement to subscription.
Franklin's goal was to benefit the common people who otherwise would not have access to books.

Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th

Most airlines require attendants to be height-weight proportionate, and they have certain maximum weight allowances depending on height. You must be tall enough to be able to reach the bins above the passengers, but not too tall to have to bend over all the time.

A flight attendant working in close quarters with passengers is more likely to catch an infectious disease than a lawyer working in an office

In between flights, the ground crew, not the flight attendants, completes a 'clean sweep' of the cabin, taking out trash, dirty pillows and blankets.

There is no record of a talk-down landing of a large commercial aircraft by a flight attendant. There have, however, been incidents where qualified pilots travelling as passengers or flight attendants on commercial flights have taken the co-pilot's seat to assist the pilot.

Archie Andrews is based on a 1938 movie named "Love Finds Andy Hardy", starring Mickey Rooney.

In 1973, an artist for Archie Comics named Al Hartley got permission to use the characters in a series published by Spire Christian Comics where they meet Jesus.

Archie and his friends have a band called "The Archies" which produced a real song called Sugar Sugar. It was #1 on the pop charts of 1969 and sold over 6 million copies.

Because the nostrils are smaller than the mouth, air exhaled through the nose creates a back flow of air (and oxygen) into the lungs.

Your nose, which is comprised of bone, soft tissue/skin, and cartilage, may change shape as you age.

The septum is the cartilage in the nose that separates the nostrils. ... Many people have an uneven septum, which makes one nostril larger than the other.

After an explosion on the set of one of the Star Trek films, both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy developed tinnitus, a ringing or buzzing in the ears than is often permanent and can be debilitating for some sufferers.

Pearl Jam discovered Ticketmaster was adding a service charge to all their concert tickets without informing the band. The band then created their own outdoor stadiums for the fans and testified against Ticketmaster to the United States Department of Justice.

During one particular Rolling Stones concert, four people were killed but the overall population of the concert did not change since four babies were born during the concert as well.

The largest mountain in our solar system is on Mars.

SKYDIVING PHOTOGRAPHERS CONTROL THE CAMERA WITH THEIR MOUTH.

You're more likely to be struck by lightning or win the lottery than to die on a tandem skydive.

Mild autumn weather often means bigger spiders in our homes.

A heatwave can make train tracks bend.

The vibrator was reportedly the 5th electric device approved for home use after the sewing machine, fan, teakettle, and toaster.

A national U.S. survey found that 16.6% of men reported having used a vibrator during masturbation.

Research has found that heightened sexual arousal achieved through masturbation can make almost anything and anyone seem more sexually appealing.

By 1791 the toy we know as a yo yo had made it to England, where it was called a "bandalore" or a "quiz." The first mention of the toy in the U.S. came in 1866, when two men filed a patent application for "an improved bandalore."

yo-yo demonstrators in the 1930s made up the rumor of it being a weapon, this was done as a marketing strategy.

The Acropolis of Athens was a runner-up for the New Seven Wonders of the World.

The Greek alphabet was the first to use vowels.

40% of the total population of Greece is residing in the capital Athens.

Farts can reach speeds of 10 feet per second.

You fart enough every day to fill a balloon.

7UP used to have mood stabilizers in it.

Mountain Dew was made to go with whiskey.

Fanta was created because of Nazis.

In general, what comes up when you're ill is just a mash up of what you last ate. But if your vomit is black, bright red, or looks like grape jelly, it could mean you're throwing up blood.

In pregnant women, nausea and vomiting during the first trimester tends to mean you have a lower chance of miscarriage.

Toothpaste recipes in the past were pretty weird. For instance, the Egyptians used mint, pepper, iris flower (dried) and crushed rock salt.

Some Egyptians used to add something more into the mixture. For instance, burnt egg shells and ashes of burnt ox hooves were pretty common ingredients.

Romans on the other hand did a bit of nasty stuff. They made toothpastes based on urine. Of course they used oyster shells, crushed bones and other abrasive material too.

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The most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.