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Literary fact: Dr. Seuss's editor once made a bet with him that he couldn't create a book with 50 unique words or less. Dr. Seuss won the bet by writing "Green Eggs and Ham."
 
Hollywood fact: NCIS: Los Angeles actress Linda Hunt, was diagnosed with hypopituitary dwarfism in high school, and has remained at 4'9" tall since she was a teenager, and many people who never met her or heard her speak have been surprised that someone so short could have such deeply rich and resonant voice, which has led her to have a second career as a voiceover artist and narrator for various TV shows and video games.
 
Actor fact; Sir Christopher Lee, famous for roles such as Dracula, Count Dooku, and Saruman, remains to be the oldest living heavy metal performer, having released the album Charlemagne: The Omens of Death in 2013. He is also the cousin to Ian Fleming, and was one of the inspirations of James Bond. Ironically, he played the villain in The Man with the Golden Gun.
 
Movie fact: The sound effect used when Saruman is stabbed in the back by Grima Wormtongue in a deleted scene from the movie version of The Two Towers is completely accurate. Does Peter Jackson know what sound a man makes when stabbed? No. Christopher Lee, however, would know.
 
Culinary/Chemistry fact: People should always use extreme caution when microwaving distilled water. Reason being, the process of boiling actually requires dissolved minerals in the water, and without it, nucleation (the process of gas bubbles coalescing around these dissolved minerals) can't occur. As a result, anything dropped into it will cause the water to explode as it's already above its boiling point and it can't release it's heat quickly enough without the dissolved minerals.
 
Newspaper fact: A newspaper in Hong Kong called South China Morning Post published a photo of Canadian politician Lucien Bochard and his wife with the mistaken caption that they were the notorious serial killing team Fred & Rosemary West. Neither of them were terribly amused by this, especially since Bochard was the leader of the minority coalition in Canada's parliment and a prominent proponent of Quebec seceding from Canada altogether.
 
elcap1999 said:
Culinary/Chemistry fact: People should always use extreme caution when microwaving distilled water. Reason being, the process of boiling actually requires dissolved minerals in the water, and without it, nucleation (the process of gas bubbles coalescing around these dissolved minerals) can't occur. As a result, anything dropped into it will cause the water to explode as it's already above its boiling point and it can't release it's heat quickly enough without the dissolved minerals.
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Should not have told me that....
 
Chemistry fact: The element Chlorine is one of the nastiest things out there, with a tendency to react with nearly anything it touches. It's brother one row up, Fluorine, is even worse in that regard, and can even react with glass. Now, what where to happen if one mixed Chlorine and Fluorine together? The answer is ClF3, or Chlorine Fluoride. This compound is capable of initiating combustion reactions with anything known, barring copper, some steel alloys, and nickel. Such explosive burning reactions can occur with glass, Teflon, asbestos, sand, and water. The reason it cannot react with the three metals is because a fluorine layer with them is nearly insoluble, if that is disrupted it will allow for the chlorine to react, and cause a fiery explosion. The reactions with water will leave behind HF and HCl, or hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids, both extremely toxic materials. Not only this, but these two acids can mix to form aqua regia, an acid capable of dissolving the normally non corroding element gold. One chemist remarked that the only safety equipment was "a good pair of running shoes". It should come as little surprise that this compound is known to chemists as "Pyromancer's Piss" and "The Breath of Lucifer". For those that doubt how factual this Here  is a video of it burning lab safety equipment. Please excuse the French used, and I mean that literally.
 
Tourism fact: A common (and illegal inside of National Parks) practice for tourists in Hawaii was for them to take beach sands, soil or volcanic rocks from the islands to bring back home. Upon returning home, many of these people began inexplicable runs of bad luck, in some cases rather severe, that they couldn't attribute to anything except these volcanic rocks or handfuls of sand they brought home. Only after these people mailed them back to the national parks they took them from, did their bad luck streaks ended. One one case, a Florida man who brought sand back after vacation. In short order, his dog died, his girlfriend dumped him out of the blue shortly after he bought an engagement ring for her, and the FBI investigated him for computer hacking. When he returned what he took, his girlfriend brought him back, and the computer case against him was dropped.
 
The overall story was eventually picked up by the LA times, and statiticians couldn't find their runs of bad luck attributed to random events, and several thought that the runs of bad luck could have only occurred by acts of nature, and many native Hawaiians attributed it to the native Hawaiian creator Goddess Pele taking revenge on these tourists for taking a piece of her away from the islands, and many hotels in Hawaii have devoted a full room for nothing else but packages from people returning rocks, soil and sand after they have horribly bad luck.
 
Astronomy fact: According to astronomers, there are an estimated 300 sextillion stars in the observable Universe. To put it in perspective, that's over 42,857,000,000,000 (yes, 42.85 TRILLION) stars for every man, woman and child on the planet Earth. 
 
Fast fact: There are so many restaurants in New York City that if someone ate dinner at one per night, it would take them 54 years to eat at each one.
 
Celebrity fact: Quietly, Dave Chappelle converted to Islam in 1998. He generally declines to comment about it, because as he stated: "I don't want anyone to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing."
 
Animal fact: Out of the entire animal kingdom, the only animals to do a task purely for the acknowledgement of being rewarded are:dogs, dolphins, elephants. some great apes, and rats.
 
Pepperjack91 said:
 
And humans
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Quite true. I left you guys us out of it because I'd say 50-60 percent of them will do something for acknowledgement. The rest need an incentive as to why they should go waste effort, or at least as to they have to do it all the time.
 
Sources:Trying to get anyone to carry all the lunch trays at school, sign everyone in, or carry bring all the backpacks from the corner of the room. Last one gets a pass sometimes because those things a *very* heavy when there's more than 3. 3=90lbs
 
Video game fact: In the Assassin's Creed series, all the figures the protagonists interact with are real historical figures, and the ones the protagonist has to assassinate, are frequently killed in a manner (while perhaps not precisely) consistent with their cause of death in reality.
 
Movie fact: In the commentary for the movie Spaceballs, Mel Brooks admitted he was able to save money by allowing Michael Winslow (known as the man of 10,000 sound effects) to do all the audio effects himself in his scene. Winslow was only too happy to oblige, since it showcased his talent for mimicking sound effects.
 
Movie Fact: At the end of all Pixar movies you can see a list of the the babies that were born to anybody who had a part in making the movie.
 
There listed under production babies.
 
Music fact: In her song, Diary, Alicia Keys actually included her old phone number in the song. When called, it would immediately go to a recording of Keys, asking listeners to leave a message... that is, assuming they could find the correct area code. Several people with different area codes were understandably annoyed and in one case, a man racked up nearly $100 worth of *69 charges on his phone bill, not realizing his company charged per use for that service.
 
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