Interesting Things That Will Make You Scratch Your Head
Nathan Johnson
Published
12/27/2016
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Odd facts and intriguing information you probably never knew.
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The Isles of Scilly Football League, the smallest in the world, has only two teams that compete against one another for 17 weeks straight. -
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Granny the Orca is the oldest killer whale in the world. She was born in 1911 and is 105 years old. -
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Drinking coffee on a daily basis can help reduce the risk of suicide by nearly 50 percent. -
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In Botswana, there is a town named Kanye, which is divided up into two electoral districts: Kayne North and Kanye South. Sadly, there is no Kanye West. -
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Tomatoes are not native to much of Europe, and despite being used in most modern-day Italian dishes, the fruit was not mentioned in Italian texts or recipe books until 1548. -
6.
Douglas Tompkins, the founder of the North Face company which creates winter jackets to keep customers warm, died of exposure to cold temperatures after his kayak capsized in Chile. -
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Famed jazz singer Billie Holiday died with just 70 cents in her bank account and $750 taped to her leg. -
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U.S. Marshals busted over 100 fugitives by luring them to a Washington Redskins game. -
9.
Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" series beat out "Fifty Shades of Grey" as the most widely banned book in America in 2012. -
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Theodore Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams are the only two presidents to have ever been sworn into office without placing their hand on a bible. -
11.
Bullet-proof vests are only good for about seven years. -
12.
The year 2100 will not be a leap year because the year is not divisible by 400. -
13.
The phrase "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" originated in a 1944 campaign by General Foods as a way to sell more cereal. -
14.
Country singers Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty released a song in 1978 called "You're the Reason Our Kids are Ugly." -
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Because vinyl was so expensive in the 1950s, Russian hipsters would press their own records on discarded X-rays. -
16.
Some of the asteroids used in the production of the first Star Wars film were actually potatoes. -
17.
Donald Duck has appeared in more films than any other Disney character and also serves as the most-published comic book character outside of the superhero genre. -
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Brazilian singer Georgia Brown is in the record books for singing the world's highest note, G 10, which actually isn't considered a note, but a frequency. -
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Iceland is the only nation in the entire world where 100 percent of its entire population has access to the internet. -
20.
Black and green olives are actually the same fruit, just at different levels of ripeness. -
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The Isles of Scilly Football League, the smallest in the world, has only two teams that compete against one another for 17 weeks straight.
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