Fact or Crap Trivia (2013)

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Studies reveal that men get persistent hiccups more often than women. Why? No one knows. Maybe they drink more beer or swallow more air than women do!



Wednesday, October 9, 2013

An Italian Catholic nearly became Prime Minister of India in 2004.

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Sonia Gandhi, wife of the late Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, was born Antonia Edvige Albina Maino in Italy, and in 2004 she did run for Prime Minister of India.



Thursday, October 10, 2013

The hotel chain Best Western once had a string of hotels called Best Eastern.

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The Best Western company began establishing hotels east of the Mississippi during the 1960s,using the name Best Eastern, but the name proved to be very unpopular, and the hotels failed. After 1967 all their hotel names were changed to Best Western. Today, the hotel chain is one of the largest in the world. The words best and west rhyme; was that the reason the name Best Western triumphed and Best Eastern tanked?



Friday, October 11, 2013

Chocolatiers Henry Roundtree and John Cadbury were Quakers.

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Vipsoccermaster said:
Luigifan3DSGCN said:
In my research, I also found a hotel series ("Chain" sounds a little derogatory given the luxurious context)called "Best Eastern" that operates independently in Pakistan.
That's a fact btw.
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Whoever made this Fact or Crap Trivia never knew or put it there.
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Yeah, but Googling "Best Eastern" took me there and I thought that bit might be worth sharing, oh, and it's Palestine, not Pakistan.  :-[
 
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Abraham Lincoln's full name is Abraham Lincoln. William Bradley Pitt might be as famous as Abraham Lincoln, but they have nothing else in common. Honestly!



Tuesday, October 15, 2013

The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic nearly drowned during Hurricane Katrina.

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The last survivor of the RMS Titanic, Britain's Millvina Dean, died in her sleep in 2009 at the age of 97. She was only two months old when she was wrapped in a sack and put into Titanic lifeboat number 13 with her mother and 2-year-old brother. Women and children first!



Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Da Vinci spent 12 years painting Mona Lisa's lips.

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Leonardo da Vinci is famous for not completing his paintings. Many art historians believe that the Mona Lisa he began painting in 1504 was never really finished, he just stopped working on it.



Thursday, October 17, 2013

The furniture and decorations in a church in the Czech Republic were made with human bones.

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The church of All Saints in Sedlec, Czech Republic, contains the remains of over 70,000 people. During the plague, thousands of people were buried inside the church. When the church was redecorated in the Baroque style, the plague victims' bones were used to create all the furniture, artwork, and decorative items. The church's centerpiece, an elaborate bone chandelier, looks as if it belongs in a cannibal's cave, not in a Roman Catholic chapel.



Friday, October 18, 2013

There is a species of lemur named after John Cleese because of his role in helping the endangered animal.

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Avahi cleesei is the name that has been given to a new species of Madagascar lemur discovered in 2005 by the anthropologist Urs Thalmann and his associate Thomas Geissman to honor John Cleese's interest in the plight of endangered animals, especially lemurs. The alias Basil Fawlty loves lemurs, hamsters, and even rats!
 
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The tensile (elastic) strength of spider's spun silk thread is as strong as that of high-grade alloy steel of equal size. A spider's ability to cut these extremely strong, elastic silk threads and not to become entangled in its web is a mystery.



Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Ginsu knives were originally made in Fremont, Ohio.

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The name Ginsu sounds Japanese but it is not; it is a completely fabricated word. The knife is made in Ohio and was first known as the "Eversharp" knife. It became an instant hit in 1978 when the knife was introduced as the Ginsu knife in a series of cutting-edge TV commercials produced by Dial Media agency.



Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The organization Big Brothers Big Sisters was founded in 1984, and was inspired by an Orwell book.

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George Orwell's character Big Brother in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four did not inspire the Big Brothers and Big Sisters organization. It was started in 1904 in New York City by Ernest Coulter, a New York City court clerk. Today, the organization operates in 50 states and 12 countries.



Thursday, October 24, 2013

In France, French dressing is called hollandaise sauce.

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