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50 Interesting Facts about New York City
01. Decommissioned New York City Subway cars are dumped into the ocean to provide homes for sea creatures.
87 Eye-Opening Facts About Water Every Human Should Know
1. The Amazon River spews so much fresh water into the Atlantic that surface water can be drinkable up to 200 miles from shore #river #nature #environment #water #human
38 Remarkable Facts About the Roman Empire
01. A Roman politician named Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was twice given near-absolute authority over the Roman Republic and he gave it up twice.
25 Fascinating Facts About Norse Mythology - Fact Republic
25 Fascinating Facts About Norse Mythology | Fact Republic
50 Fascinating Incidents and Facts From the 1980s - Fact Republic
1. On April Fools Day in 1989, billionaire Richard Branson designed a hot air balloon to look like a UFO, and hired a dwarf in an E.T. costume to come out and scare whoever was near it when it landed. 2. When President Ronald Reagan was admitted to a hospital in 1981 due to being shot by John Hinckley Jr., he joked "Please tell me you're all Republicans." To which a surgeon who was a liberal democrat himself replied, "We're all Republicans today."
License to Thrill: 22 Facts About James Bond
01. The literary character James Bond has an average intake of 60 custom-made cigarettes a day.
Culture Shock: 35 Strange Customs and Traditions That Will Open Your Eyes - Fact Republic
Culture Shock: 35 Strange Customs and Traditions That Will Open Your Eyes - Fact Republic
47 Intriguing Facts About Physicians & Their Patients
01. A doctor named Duncan MacDougall once attempted to prove that the human soul had weight by placing dying patients on a giant scale at the moment of death. #doctor #physician #health #fitness #humanbody
35 Interesting Facts about Extinct Animals and Birds
01. By the time the last mammoth became extinct, the Great Pyramid of Giza was over 1000 years old. One tiny population of mammoths endured on isolated Wrangel Island in far eastern Siberia until 1650 BCE. It is still unclear what caused their extinction on the island.
50 Fascinating and Historical Facts About The 1700s - Fact Republic
50 Fascinating and Historical Facts About The 1700s | Fact Republic