Title: Daily fact | |
Grapevine50sRoost > ~GENERAL~ > GENERAL DISCUSSION | Go to subcategory: |
Author | Content |
zxxlyzq | |
Date Posted:04/08/2018 8:02 AMCopy HTML The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi. |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #211 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:13/05/2022 6:36 AMCopy HTML Nearly 80% of people who die from drowning in the USA are male. |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #212 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:12/05/2022 7:00 AMCopy HTML There was a toilet paper shortage in the USA in 1973 caused by a joke on a talk show that convinced people to hoard toilet paper |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #213 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:11/05/2022 11:34 AMCopy HTML |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #214 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:09/05/2022 11:40 AMCopy HTML In 2009, Nicolas Cage outbid Leonardo DiCaprio for a $276,000 Dinosaur Skull. – |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #215 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:08/05/2022 10:36 AMCopy HTML Charlize Theron has an American accent because she only spoke Afrikaans at home and “learned to speak English properly in the US.” |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #216 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:05/05/2022 6:22 AMCopy HTML Americans eat 69 million pounds of avocados on Super Bowl Sunday |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #217 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:04/05/2022 11:40 AMCopy HTML |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #218 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:03/05/2022 6:53 AMCopy HTML While the pointed white hood is a symbol of racism in the US, the same costume is used during Easter celebration in Spain. – |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #219 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:02/05/2022 6:49 AMCopy HTML |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #220 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:01/05/2022 10:15 AMCopy HTML Keanu Reeves was so good at being a hockey goalkeeper he was nicknamed ‘The Wall’. He dreamed of playing hockey for Canada but an injury ended his hopes for a career in the sport. – |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #221 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:29/04/2022 7:00 AMCopy HTML There is an AGM Missile which will deploy a parachute and wait till radar goes back online before starting up the second engine and finishing the job |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #222 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:26/04/2022 6:52 AMCopy HTML When USA’s first space station Skylab crashed in Australia in 1979, Australia issued USA a fine of A$400 for littering, which remained unpaid for 30 years. – Source |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #223 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:24/04/2022 6:46 AMCopy HTML 20 ft. long crocodiles used to have long legs, allowing them to emerge from water gallop at other animals at full speed. |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #224 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:23/04/2022 6:38 AMCopy HTML |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #225 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:22/04/2022 8:10 AMCopy HTML In the US, peanut butter must contain 90% peanuts, otherwise, it must be called “peanut spread”. |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #226 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:19/04/2022 7:07 AMCopy HTML Martin Luther King’s speeches in Selma were written specifically for the film because Steven Spielberg owns the rights to the originals |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #227 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:18/04/2022 7:16 AMCopy HTML Queen Victoria owned a bulletproof chainmail-lined umbrella. – |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #228 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:16/04/2022 7:20 AMCopy HTML In 1987, Christian missionaries from the US evangelized the uncontacted Zo’e people in Brazil. 45 natives died from infectious diseases brought by the missionaries |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #229 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:14/04/2022 11:19 AMCopy HTML Leonardo Da Vinci used more than thirty layers of paint on the Mona Lisa, some of which were thinner than a human hair. |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #230 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:11/04/2022 7:33 AMCopy HTML In 1985 a pool party was thrown in New Orleans for Lifeguards in celebration of a year without drowning. One man drowned at that party. – |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #231 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:10/04/2022 7:41 AMCopy HTML Heath Ledger was an avid chess player; he won Western Australia’s junior chess championship at age 10 and as an adult, he would play against other chess enthusiasts at Washington Square Park. |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #232 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:08/04/2022 12:02 PMCopy HTML A woman who eats at least one stalk of Broccoli every week is 40% less likely to get breast cancer. |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #233 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:07/04/2022 7:48 AMCopy HTML An Air Canada flight was asked by Australian authorities to investigate an emergency beacon. The plane, with 270 people, flew at 4000 feet as crew and passengers used binoculars to locate a stranded sailor, who was later rescued by police. The flight landed safely in Sydney, 90 minutes delayed. |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #234 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:05/04/2022 7:44 AMCopy HTML |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #235 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:03/04/2022 10:14 AMCopy HTML Lesotho is the only country on Earth to lie completely above 1000 meters in elevation |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #236 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:02/04/2022 8:06 AMCopy HTML While campaigning in southern states Hillary Clinton would adopt a southern drawl. – |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #237 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:01/04/2022 8:03 AMCopy HTML “Pretty Boy” Floyd, one of America’s most notorious bank robbers, on bank heists, he was known for destroying mortgage papers, consequently freeing hundreds of people from property debt. – |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #238 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:31/03/2022 8:18 AMCopy HTML 7 schools in New York City look exactly the same because they only had money for 1 set of blueprints. |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #239 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:30/03/2022 11:57 AMCopy HTML Andrew Jackson carried a locket with a picture of his deceased wife, Rachel Jackson, and propped it up in front of his bed every night so that she would be the last thing he saw when falling asleep and the first thing when he woke up. – |
|
Rockymz | Share to: #240 |
Re:Daily fact Date Posted:29/03/2022 8:37 AMCopy HTML Ukraine once had 2000 nuclear warheads, the third largest in the world, before they willingly disposed of them in 1996. |