Fact or Crap Trivia (2013)

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President Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, and President Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois. In fact, he is the only President who was born in Illinois. So why is the Illinois state slogan "Land of Lincoln"?



Wednesday, September 18, 2013

One of the world's largest communities of Icelandic people outside Iceland lives on Washington Island, Wisconsin.

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Vipsoccermaster said:
So why is the Illinois state slogan "Land of Lincoln"?
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Because while born in Kentucky and spending his childhood there, he later moved Illinois as a young man; it was here he decided to run for the House of Representatives and Senate along with his businesses, settle down, and have a family. He continued to live in Springfield until he boarded the inaugural train to Washington.
 
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Not only is Washington Island's Icelandic community one of the largest outside Iceland, it is also the oldest Icelandic settlement in the United States. These transplanted Icelanders have no worries about volcanoes or polar nights in Wisconsin.



Thursday, September 19, 2013

Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prizes after he read his own obituary.

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Nobel's name was mistakenly used in his brother's obituary published in 1888 under the unflattering heading, "The merchant of death is dead." This made Alfred think about how he would be remembered. In an attempt to change his image Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, created the Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. "Money Can't Buy You Love," or can it?



Friday, September 20, 2013

George Washington Carver formulated a synthetic rubber from sweet potatoes.

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The only mint-mistake by the Royal Mint occurred in 1983 when the phrase "new pence" was stamped into a coin instead of the correct "two pence" wording. Recently one of these mis-minted coins sold for six hundred pounds. It pays to read the small print!



Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Prince Andrew is ineligible for the royal succession, because a strike prevented the publication of his birth announcement in The Times of London.

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Prince Andrew, Duke of York, was born second in the line of succession to the British throne, but since the birth of Prince Charles' two sons, he is currently fourth in line. Watch it, Andy, you're slipping!



Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Oprah's cousin is married to Barack Obama's half-sister.

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Barack's half-sister Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng is married to a Chinese Canadian, now a U.S. citizen, Konrad Ng. Oprah gets around, but she currently has no direct or indirect family connection to President Obama or his family.



Thursday, September 26, 2013

Tetanus is the medical term for somebody who is a hunchback.

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Angular kyphosis is the medical and correct name for the condition once known as hunchback. Tetanus is a medical condition of prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibers causing "lockjaw" and muscle spasms.



Friday, September 27, 2013

In 2006, Steven Seagal tried his hand at music, touring with a backup band called Thunderbox.

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The fictional character Sherlock Holmes had only one very important connection with typhoid. His longtime friend and associate Doctor John H. Watson contracted typhoid fever while living in India and almost died. Watson returned to England to recuperate, and it was during this time that Watson and Holmes first met.



Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Zwilich wrote a concerto based on the comic strip Peanuts.

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She wrote a series of musical compositions based on the Peanuts characters, Schroeder, Linus, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and Lucy, after she was featured in one of Schulz's comic strips. She is also well known for winning a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1983, the first woman in history to do so.



Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The first time baseball was an official Olympic sport, the Americans failed to win a medal.

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Cuba won the first gold medal, Taipei the first silver medal, and Japan the first bronze medal for baseball during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Unfortunately, the Olympic Summer Games take place during the Major League Baseball season in the U.S., making it impossible for America to "field" their best players. The International Olympic Committee eliminated the sport of baseball and softball in 2005 as an official Summer Olympic event. Olympic baseball struck out!



Thursday, October 3, 2013

A talking Barbie once complained, "Math is tough!"

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That is so unfair! I think we should have some sort of rematch with all three medalists; and HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE UNDERESTIMATED WONDERLAND OF MATH AND MY SKILLS? I BREEZED THROUGH MY CLASSES WITH 5/5 ADVANCEMENT STARS, SPECIAL TEST TAKING TREATMENT, AND  AN A; AND I'M LOOKING VERY FORWARD TO HONORS GEOMETRY NEXT SEMESTER! I WAS EVEN SELECTED FOR A MATH SPECIAL THREE TIMES. ALL THIS, HAVING TWO X CHROMOSOMES! I know that because I did well in my science classes. Just kidding, I saw it on TV in the elementary school days(at home, on my own time). Man, I'm mad!
 
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Mattel's Teen Talk Barbie doll was released in the summer of 1992, and even though only 1.5% of these dolls said the phrase "Math is tough," it forced Mattel to discontinue the use of the phrase. Math isn't as tough as public opinion!



Friday, October 4, 2013

Facebook was founded by the Associated Press as a way for foreign correspondents to stay in touch with each other.

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Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his friends as a limited social networking service for Harvard college students. Later it was expanded to include other Ivy League schools and universities. Today, it is estimated that over 40% of Americans have a Facebook account. Like it?
 
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The Japanese named the island Iwo Jima, but in 2007 the Japanese renamed the island Iwo To, the original name used by the island's native inhabitants. No matter what the island is called, it will always be the place where 7,000 U.S. soldiers and 21,000 Japanese soldiers lost their lives.



Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Women get the hiccups more often than men.

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