Fact or Crap Trivia (2013)

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Not exactly; Al launched the first official White House website in 1994 during his term as Vice President in the Clinton administration.



Thursday, March 28, 2013

After spending seven years' worth of funds in just nine months, Canada canceled its contract with a company hired to reduce the cost of contracting.

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In addition to this debacle, the government also spent 1.4 million dollars to find 20 million dollars of "missing gold" that was not missing, and the Public Works staff of Canada accidentally sold off the Queen's silver for $4,000 dollars and spent almost $100,000 to buy it back!



Friday, March 29, 2013

All members of the College of Cardinals, no matter where they live, are automatically citizens of Vatican City..

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The Vatican has 557 official citizens, 58 cardinals, mostly outside the Vatican, 293 clergy in the diplomatic corps, 62 clergy living outside the Vatican, 101 Papal Swiss Guards, and 43 lay persons living inside the Vatican. Vatican City has the smallest population and the smallest landmass of any country in the world.
 
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Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was the voice actor behind many famous cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, and Yosemite Sam, to name only a few. Mel's nickname during the "Golden Age of American animation" was "The Man of a Thousand Voices." After his death in 1989 he was laid to rest beneath an inscription that begins with the famous Mel Blanc line he spoke for the character Porky Pig, "That's All Folks!"



Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Elvis did a TV ad for a donut.

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Elvis, who is remembered for his love of donuts, made only one commercial in his life, and that commercial was for a donut company. The radio commercial was for Southern Maid Donuts and aired in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1954.



Wednesday, April 3, 2013

There is a Nike swoosh on the flag of Mali.

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The flag of Mali is made up of three equal vertical stripes of color. From left to right the colors are green, yellow, and red. The famous swoosh logo only flies over Nike's corporate campus in Beaverton, Oregon.



Thursday, April 4, 2013

Toward the end of his life, composer Béla Bartók was obsessed with writing symphonies inspired by bird calls.

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Béla Bartók was a 19th-century Hungarian composer interested in folk music, not birds. It was Olivier Messiaen, the 20th-century French composer, organist, and ornithologist, who transcribed birdsong into musical compositions. Unusual music but very tweet!



Friday, April 5, 2013

A violin is made from one continuous piece of wood.

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This false rumor was based on the harmless animal known as Al Girta or honey badger that first appeared in the Basra area in 1986. That predates the Gulf War by five years, so they can't blame the Brits.



Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Balut is a Filipino treat. And it's actually duck fetus, eaten out of its egg.

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In the Southeast Asian island country of the Philippines, this parboiled embryonic duck is a popular street food. This is KFC's competition in the Philippines!



Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Trench coats were used, quite literally, in the trenches.

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After World War I, fashion in America and Europe became more casual. Men adopted the trench coat, a casual style raincoat based on the coats that were worn by military officers in the trenches during the First World War. Today, trench coats remain a popular and practical unisex coat style, worldwide. Don't forget your umbrella.



Thursday, April 11, 2013

Pet dogs, cats, and astronauts use toothpaste formulated to be swallowed.

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Almost all toothpaste, other than toothpaste made for the pet and the astronaut market, may cause nausea or diarrhea if swallowed. Pets can't be trained to spit, and it's impossible to spit in zero-gravity, so special ingestible toothpastes were developed.



Friday, April 12, 2013

Poland is the only country with a chemical element named after it.

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Gonwana (originally known as Gonwanaland) is a geological supercontinent that existed during the mid-Mesozoic era of earth's history. It included today's Southern Hemisphere, the Indian subcontinent, Australian continent, Africa, Madagascar, Antarctica, and South America. That's not a supercontinent, that's a mega-ginormous continent!



Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Warren Buffet paid $50,000 to "sponsor" the door to the men's room at MOMA.

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Warren Buffet is known as a practical, frugal man who is not interested in buying art, sponsoring art, or art museums. He is, however, a very charitable person who in 2009 donated billions of dollars to charity.



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

A Jane Austen book makes reference to baseball.

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The following quote is from Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey, written 42 years before baseball was invented in America. "It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of 14, to books."



Thursday, April 18, 2013

Future motorcycle daredevil Bobby Knievel was nicknamed Evel by a prison guard.

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Knievel left school in the 10th grade and as a teenager was often arrested for speeding, reckless driving, and hubcap theft. One of the officers who arrested Robert Craig Knievel during these early years gave him the nickname "Evil" which he later changed to Evel Knievel. By the time Robert Craig Knievel was twenty, he had creatively changed his evil habits into a career as an international daredevil.



Friday, April 19, 2013

Jack the Ripper was never caught.

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