Interesting facts

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Most department stores tend to play slower music, in order to slow down customers and keep them shopping longer. The opposite is true for restaurants.

 

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Monaco’s orchestra is bigger than its army.

 

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A concert promoter once sold a thousand tickets to a Spice Girls concert in Hawaii that was never actually booked. Maybe that’s where they got the idea for Fyre Fest.

 

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Leo Fender, the inventor of the Stratocaster and the Telecaster, couldn’t play guitar.

 

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In 2016, Mozart sold more albums than Beyoncé.

 

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Over a decade ago two teams of astronomers discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Over a decade ago two teams of astronomers discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away.

Better head to Home Depot and buy a whole lot of galvanized piping.

 

[Vacationeer]

Better head to Home Depot and by a whole lot of galvanized piping.

Or try being a worm farmer. Might get lucky and they make a worm hole

 

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During a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, someone donated $35,000 so that VH1 Classic would have to play “99 Luftballons” on repeat for an entire hour.

 

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“A Boy Named Sue” wasn’t written by Johnny Cash. Shel Silverstein wrote it.

 

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In 2015, Belfast police used ice cream truck music to deter teenage rioters.

 

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Gatorade was named after the University of Florida Gators.

Gatorade invented at University of Florida

On October 2, 1965, a team of scientists invent Gatorade, a sports drink to quench thirst, in a University of Florida lab. The name “Gatorade” is derived from the nickname of the university’s sports teams. Eventually, the drink becomes a phenomenon and makes its inventors wealthy. Early in the...

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China didn’t win its first Olympic medal until 1984.

 

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This is how some are that clueless in the USA. In the 1980s A&W came out with a less expensive 1/3 burger to compete with the smaller quarter pounder of McDonalds. The idea failed. Some thought the quarter pounder was a bigger burger.

 

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The average golf ball has 336 dimples.

 

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In Epcot Morocco pavilion there is the Souk -al- Magreb location. In the WDW website only the word Souk is advertised.

 

[Lilofan]

Better head to Home Depot and buy a whole lot of galvanized piping.

I couldn't even buy a portable heater a few months ago at Home Depot to warm up a room . I was told all other HD were out of stock too, supply chain issues.

 

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Tennis was originally played with bare hands.

 

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The Cleveland Browns are the only team to neither play in or host a Super Bowl.