Results: Amazing Facts That You Never Knew!
Published on 05/22/2016
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Section one - what facts are you familiar with?
According to Amazon - the most highlighted Kindle books are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
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A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap'n Crunch because Crunch Berries contained
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In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
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Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
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A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
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Only one McDonald's in the world has turquoise arches. Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock.
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A 2009 search for the Loch Ness Monster came up empty. Scientists did find over 100,000 golf balls.
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Section two - what facts are you familiar with?
12+1 = 11+2, and "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two."
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Barry Manilow wrote State Farm's "Like a Good Neighbor" jingle.
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The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
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If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go, you won't use the letter "A" until you reach 1,000.
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Wendy's founder Dave Thomas dropped out of high school but picked up his GED in 1993. His GED class voted him Most Likely to Succeed.
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Sleeping through winter is hibernation, while sleeping through summer is estivation.
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In Spain, Mr. Clean is known as Don Limpio.
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Section three - what facts are you familiar with?
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.
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William McKinley was on the $500 bill, Grover Cleveland was on the $1,000, and James Madison was on the $5,000.
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How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know. But on average, a Licking Machine made at Purdue needed 364.
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Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have a ball after I'm gone."
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Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
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Peeps Lip Balm is something that does exist.
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Jonas Salk declined to patent his polio vaccine. "There is no patent," he said. "Could you patent the sun?"
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These facts came from the Mental Floss website. Do you believe the majority of these facts? Yes
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No
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Undecided
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Not Applicable
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