OT - Name your Unusual Fact
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Some portions of Canada are still fighting the war of 1812. #NeverForget
18-35%? Dammit. All this time I thought I was special.
Is there anything in the condition about having to sneeze precisely three times every time?
When we bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, the Russians were still using the Julian calendar and recorded the date of the sale as Oct 7th. But we used the Gregorian calendar and recorded the purchase as Oct 18th and immediately switched Alaska to our calendar.
The dates from Oct 8th 1867 through Oct 17th 1867 never happened in Alaska.
The dates from Oct 8th 1867 through Oct 17th 1867 never happened in Alaska.
The entire nation of China is on one time zone despite being wide enough east to west to span 5 time zones. This results in the easternmost province having oddities like a winter sunset just after 3 pm and a summer sunrise around 3 am despite a latitude similar to Seattle, WA. The westernmost province has winter sunrise at almost 10 am and summer sunset at nearly 10 pm at a latitude comparable to El Paso, TX.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that you can type with one hand on a computer keyboard.
Sweetwater Texas is the longest US city/state combination you can type with one hand. I can't remember the longest one you can type with your right hand but it is in Ohio (and shorter than Sweetwater Texas).
Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital
Phil Mickelson is right handed
Michael Phelps would be something like 33rd in total Olympic medals if he was his own country
Roger Maris was never intentionally walked in his 61 HR year
Only 72 players in NBA history attempted more FTs than Shaq missed
Tiger Woods has missed less cuts in his career than Jordan Spieth.
Tiger also has the 1st and 2nd longest streaks at #1. Twice it was 263 weeks or more.
In 89 consecutive rounds, Woods beat the field average for said round. That's over 22 tournaments where he never had a round worse than the average of the field. A ROUND!
(Some of the Tiger Woods stats out there are just astounding)
Russia has more surface area than Pluto
If you put your finger in your ear and scratch it, it sounds like Pac Man.
Michael Phelps would be something like 33rd in total Olympic medals if he was his own country
Roger Maris was never intentionally walked in his 61 HR year
Only 72 players in NBA history attempted more FTs than Shaq missed
Tiger Woods has missed less cuts in his career than Jordan Spieth.
Tiger also has the 1st and 2nd longest streaks at #1. Twice it was 263 weeks or more.
In 89 consecutive rounds, Woods beat the field average for said round. That's over 22 tournaments where he never had a round worse than the average of the field. A ROUND!
(Some of the Tiger Woods stats out there are just astounding)
Russia has more surface area than Pluto
If you put your finger in your ear and scratch it, it sounds like Pac Man.
That the long speech gave him pneumonia and killed him is speculation only. He did die in 30 days for sure, though.
A group of non-English speakers voted "diarrhea" as the prettiest sounding word in the English language.
I read this in some book probably close to 10 years ago, and I tried looking it up and couldn't verify it. But I remember it making me laugh when I read it
I read this in some book probably close to 10 years ago, and I tried looking it up and couldn't verify it. But I remember it making me laugh when I read it
