Miscellaneous

Bizarre Fact #111:
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According to Scientific American magazine: if you live in the northern hemisphere, odds are that every time you fill your lungs with air at least one molecule of that air once passed thru Socrates lungs.

Bizarre Fact #112:
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According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Bizarre Fact #113:
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acetwothreefourfivesixseveneightninetenjackqueenking Excluding the joker, if you add up the letters in all the names of the cards in the deck (Ace, two, three, four,...,king). the total number of letters is 52, the same as the number of cards in the deck.

Bizarre Fact #114:
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Aladdin's nationality was Chinese.

Bizarre Fact #115:
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Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin.

Bizarre Fact #116:
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Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.

Bizarre Fact #117:
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Bizarre Fact #118:
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At age ninety, Peter Mustafic of Botovo, Yugoslavia, suddenly began speaking again after a silence of 40 years. The Yugoslavian news agency quoted him as saying, "I just didn't want to do military service, so I stopped speaking in 1920; then I got used to it."

Bizarre Fact #119:
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At its peak in 1943, the Pentagon had a working population of about 33,000. Today about 23,000 employees work in the building.

Bizarre Fact #120:
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At the height of the teddy bear's huge popularity in the early 1900s, there is record of one Michigan priest who publicly denounced the teddy as an insidious weapon. He claimed that the stuffed toy would lead to the destruction of the instincts of motherhood and eventual racial suicide.