FACT is derived from the Latin word called FACTUM means something that has really performed, occurred or happened in past or indicate a matter under discussion deemed to be true or correct. Fact is sometimes used synonymously with truth, as distinct from opinions and dalsehoods. Today I have consolidated famous, great and interesting facts for you all. Check out and share your opinion via comments and let us know how you like them. Click here to list all the posts related topic FACTS.
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Fact - 1: In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
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Fact - 2: In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.
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Fact - 3: In 1894, a priest saved a 4 year old boy from drowning -- The boy was named Adolf Hitler.
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Fact - 4: In 1905, 18 men died from injuries sustained on the football field. President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in and instituted safety measures to make the game safer.
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Fact - 5: In 1925, a dog waited for 9 years after the death of his master outside the train station every morning until the dog himself passed away.
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Fact - 6: In 1961, MIT student Steve Russell, created SPACEWARS, the first interactive computer game, on a Digital PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) mainframe computer. Limited by the computer technology of the time, ASCII text characters were the ‘graphics’ and people could only play the game on a device that took up the floorspace of a small house.
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Fact - 7: In 1979, it snowed in the Sahara Desert.
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Fact - 8: In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
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Fact - 9: In 1990, Engineers digging a railway tunnel under the English Channel broke through the last dividing rock and joined Britain to mainland Europe for the first time since the Ice Age.
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Fact - 10: In 1997, Yahoo turned down the offer to buy Google for $1 million - Today, Google is worth about $200 billion.
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Fact - 11: In 2007, a 7 year old girl named Alexis Goggins jumped between a gunman and her mom, took six bullets and saved the life of her mother.
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Fact - 12: In 2007, a Bosnian married couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in an online chatroom... with each other.
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Fact - 13: In 2008, a married couple in the UK realized they were twins separated at birth.
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Fact - 14: In 2013, you can reuse your calendars from the years 2002, 1991, 1985, 1974, 1963, 1957,1946, 1935, 1929, 1918, 1901 and 1907.
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Fact - 15: In 2015, Disney plans to release "Toy Story 4."
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Fact - 16: In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.
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Fact - 17: In a tradition dating to the begining of the Westminster system of government, the bench in the middle of a Westminster parliarment is two and a half sword lengths long. This was so the government and oppositon couldn’t have a go at each other if it all got a bit heated
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Fact - 18: In Alaska it is illegal to shoot at a moose from the window of an airplane or other flying vehicle.
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Fact - 19: In an analysis of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.
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Fact - 20: In an experiment, a group of mice were forced to listen heavy metal music for 24 hours, in the end they all started killing each other.
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Fact - 21: In ancient Greece “idiot” meant a private citizen or layman.
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Fact - 22: In Arizona, there's a town named "Nothing" and the town literally has nothing but a gas station and a population of 4 people.
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Fact - 23: In Aspen Colorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and still receive government subsidized housing.
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Fact - 24: In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on final exams.
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Fact - 25: In bowling, three strikes in a row was called a turkey. The term originated in the 1800s when at holiday time, the first member of a team to score three strikes in a row won a free turkey.
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