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South Park facts: Trey Parker and Matt Stone usually begin to write, then animate and edit each episode only 6 days before its airdate. To date, they've only missed the deadline for a single episode, when their studio lost power.
 
The reason why they can write, create and edit each episode so quickly is because beginning with their 2nd episode, Parker & Stone used computer animation software that emulates the paper cutout look of the first episode, which took 3.5 months to create. Otherwise, it would take them 3-6 months to create each episode. This is why they can often tackle social issues, and poke fun of celebrities so soon after something that celebrity says/does. 
 
Speaking of which... In every single episode, a celebrity either cameos or is mentioned in the episode.
 
Also in every episode, Parker & Stone deliberately hide an extraterrestrial somewhere.
 
During the first season intro, Kenny sang some very vulgar lyrics that would automatically give movies an R rating, but because his voice was muffled, the censors never noticed it.
 
When Parker & Stone submitted their first cut of "South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut" to the MPAA for rating and got an NC-17, they responded by re-editing the film to be significantly more vulgar. The MPAA relented and gave their original cut an R rating after several progressively vulgar re-edits.
 
In response to the episode in which Parker & Stone lampoon Scientology, the Church of Scientology hired people to follow them around and ordered them to find anything they could to blackmail Parker & Stone, including attempting to hack into their bank accounts, emails, look through their mail, etc.
 
When the episode aired, and on all subsequent episodes lampooning Scientology, Parker & Stone deliberately changed the names of the cast & crew in the credits to "John Smith" or "Jame Smith" in protest.
 
Electronic Arts once had to do a mass recall of "Tiger Woods '99" because an employee slipped an entire episode of South Park into the game without anyone else in EA noticing before it was released.
 
Parker & Stone somehow got hold of a pre-production script of "The Day After Tomorrow" and planned on doing a shot-for-shot South Park version of the movie, until their lawyers talked them out of doing it.
 
The original plan for Kyle was for him to die in Season 5 and make Butters a regular character, but Parker & Stone changed their mind about Kyle, and kept Butters as a recurring character.
 
The reason why Parker & Stone eventually stopped killing Kenny in every episode was simply because they ran out of different ways to kill him.
 
George Clooney and Jay Leno were such big fans of the show, that when they approached Parker & Stone about cameos, they were offered the roles of Stan's dog and Cartman's cat respectively. Clooney & Leno happily accepted.
 
A college in Maryland offers a course in which students go through each episode of the show and explain how the episodes (and the show overall) tackle social issues in the real world.
 
When the anti-Family Guy episode aired. the cast & crew of the Simpsons sent Parker & Stone flowers as a Thank You.
 
Chef's song "Chocolate Salty Balls" hit #1 on the UK Singles Chart.
 
The word "derp" was invented by Parker & Stone.
 
Psychology fact: The friendship paradox describes how any individual has fewer friends than their friends do. No one has been able to figure out why this is true.
 
Insurance fact: In 1999, approximately 3,000 insurance and/or medical claims were made in the UK because people tripped over laundry baskets.
 
Business fact: Ghana banned the sale of used underwear in 2010.
 
Twitter fact: the official Twitter account of the Swedish government, @Sweden, is given to a random citizen each week to manage
 
Adoption fact: Also in Sweden, when a child is born or adopted, both parents are each guaranteed 480 days of paid leave to rais and care for the child, and businesses are forbidden by law from firing that person during that time.
 
Legal fact: In 2012, a court ruling in Italy ruled that telling a man he has no balls is a crime, punishable with fines.
 
Lunar fact: If the Moon was never formed, Earth would only have a 6-hour day.
 
Legal fact #2: According to the legal code of ancient Mesopotamia, beer was acceptable legal tender.
 
Geography fact: Lesotho is the only country in the world that lies entirely 1000 meters or more above sea level
 
Crime fact: In 2012, for a period of 80 days, not a single case of robbery or theft took place in Singapore, a country of over 5 million people.
 
9/11 fact: To honor the victims of 9/11, the New York Times wrote an article about each person who died in the 9/11 attacks.
 
Product fact: The battery on a Macbook Pro is so sturdy, it meets or exceeds all specifications for something being considered bulletproof.
 
Statistical fact: The number of different variations on shuffling a card deck, exceeds the estimated number of atoms on the planet Earth.
 
TV fact: Since going off the air in 1998, the show Seinfeld has grossed 2.8 billion in syndication fees alone as of June 2010.
 
Sports fact: Many of the most recent men considered the fastest runner in the world hail from a single tribe in Kenya, called the Kalenjins.
 
Diplomacy fact: The cease-fire that ended the 5-tear civil war in Ivory Coast was brokered by Didier Drogba, a professional soccer player.
 
Product fact #2: When the first iPods were made, Steve Jobs took one an d dropped it into an aquarium. When bubbles came out, he used this as justification to tell his engineers it could be made smaller.
 
Music fact: Paul McCartney is the only musician who has a #1 single as a solo artist, part of a duo, trio, quartet, quintet, and sextet
 
Biblical fact: Nowhere in the Bible was there ever a physical description of Jesus
 
TV fact: The phrase "jumped the shark" refers to the Season 5 3-part opener for "Happy Days" in which the Fonz literally leaps over a shark on water skis while wearing his trademark leather jacket. That scene was seen as a cheap attempt to gain ratings by many loyal fans of the show. The phrase has since come to mean the moment (be it a scene, episode, or even a line of dialogue) in which a show has irrepairably strayed from its original premise, begins to decline in ratings, the general quality of writing has significantly declined, and/or has desperate attempts to win back viewers written into episodes.
 
Ted McGinley has the dubious distinction of being named the Patron Saint of Jumping the Shark, because a number of established shows he began co-starring in or guest-starred were soon cancelled, or (at the very least) saw sharp drops in ratings soon afterwards. McGinley has taken it in stride, and musing (quite correctly) that it was almost always pure coincidence, since an almost equal number of television shows remained on the air for a number of years after he guest starred or co-starred, while others were already in decline, and that viewers' tastes could be very fickle at times.

TV fact #2: The White House set of the show "The West Wing" is supposedly so realistic and accurate, tours of the Warner Bros. lot are not permitted to go inside for security reasons. Neither White House staff & security, nor the cast & crew of the show have confirmed (or denied for that matter) the accuracy of the set, and visitors & tour groups are only permitted to take exterior shots, much like how people visiting Washington DC do with the actual White House.
 
Animal fact: The eastern Indigo Snake is the largest native snake in North America. It can grow to almost 8 feet in length, and is considered a highly desirable pet by snake enthusiasts because of it's iridescent indigo scales (hence its name) and it's extremely docile nature. It is so docile in fact that even in the wild, people can, by and large, simply walk up to one and pick it up without trying to escape or bite them. Due to habitat loss, it is a Federally protected species, and a permit is required to own one, or to purchase one from out of state. It also requires a larger than usual cage, preferrably one with something to climb on, since Indigo Snakes are more at home climbing trees and shrubs than on the ground, and usually lives in scrub pine habitats, with ranges as large as 270 acres in the summer, but generally shares the dens of gopher tortoises in the winter.
 
Medical fact: Statistically, the bone people most frequently break is the clavicle.
 
Food fact: Approximately 5% of all potatoes grown in the US go to making McDonald's Fries
 
Celebrity fact: Louis Armstrong played the trumpet so much, he developed callouses on his lips, and cut them off with a razor blade
 
Technology fact: If unwound and laid out in a straight line, the markings on a CD would go for 3 miles.
 
Animal fact: A trick used to help attract tigers, lions and jaguars is to spray Calvin Klein Obsession for men because several volatile compounds mimic pheromones they are attracted to.
 
Farming fact: Hawaii is the only state in the US that has the climate to grow coffee commercially
 
Diplomatic fact: Thomas Jefferson hated formalities, so much so that when foreign dignitaries came to the White House, he often opened the door himself and greeted them in his pajamas
 
Product fact: Between 1908 to 1927 the cost of a Model T decreased from $850-300 because of Henry Ford constantly improving and streamlining the manufacturing process
 
President fact: Teddy Roosevelt's first wife and mother died on the same day, in the same house no less, on Valentine's Day 1884.
 
Anatomy fact: Osteocytes (bone making cells) are so effecient, you effectively have a new skeleton every 10 years.
 
Pop culture fact: Beanie babies were so popular in the 90's that even MLB teams that were struggling kept selling out.
 
Accident fact: Between 1978 - 1995, 37 deaths were directly attributed to vending machines.
 
President fact #2: Martin Van Buren was the first president to actually be born an American citizen. The rest were grandfathered in as they were born before the US existed as a country.
 
Presidential fact: John F. Kennedy was the fastest speaking president. He was clocked multiple times speaking over 350 words a minute.
 
Paleontological fact: The neanderthal's brain size was larger than that of modern humans
 
Animal fact: A skunk's spray is so potent, even human beings can smell it from up to a mile away
 
Animal fact #2: When a snake is born with two heads, each head will fight the other for food.
 
Product fact: The Baby Ruth bar was not named after famed baseball player Babe Ruth, but on president Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth.
 
Automotive fact: Cars with manual transmissions, statistically, are 2 MPG more efficient than cars with automatic transmissions
 
Gun fact: Silencers for revolvers are useless because the gasses escaping the gap between the cylinder and barrel are just as loud as the noise from the barrel itself.
 
State fact: Rhode Island is the smallest state in terms of area, but has the longest official name of any state "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations"
 
Highway fact: When Eisenhower approved the Interstate system, a provision was added such that at least one mile of every five be completely straight, in the event of an emergency runway being needed by an airplane of the time.
 
Telephone fact: Prior to 1895, telephone operators on switchboards would state "Well, are you there?" which soon prompted people to change the original greeting to "number please."
 
Human fact: In the average human lifetime, people walk the equivalent of up to five times around the equator
 
Word fact: The word "lethologica" describes the feeling of not being able to find the word you want to say.
 
War fact: In every war the United States won, a mule or mules were somehow involved.
 
McDonald's fact: When McDonald's first opened in China, the concept of the drive-thru was so alien to them, that customers would often go through the drive-thru, only to park their car and walk inside to eat their order.
 
Historical fact: The Great Pyramid of Giza, built by Khufu, was finished when there were still wooly mammoths roaming the earth.
 
Historical fact #2: Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted for so long, that Cleopatra was born closer to the opening of the first Pizza Hut than the completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
 
Shakespeare fact: In a remarkable coincidence, Shakespeare was 46 when the King James Bible was finished, and the 46th word in Psalms 46 is "Shake", while the 46th to last word is "spear".
 
Technology fact: Leonardo DaVinci is considered to have invented the scissors.
 
Planetary fact: Venus is the only planet that spins clockwise, and many scientists believe the only cause was a massive off-center collision. 
 
Gem fact: A large flawless emerald is so rare, it is more expensive than a flawless diamond of equal size.
 
Sport fact: Australian Rules football was originally conceived to give cricket players something to do during their off-season.
 
Presidential fact #2: Every President has had to wear glasses, some just chose not to do so in public.
 
Geography fact: The country of Monaco is half the size of Central Park.
 
Basketball fact: Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game in his entire career
 
Monetary fact: More Monopoly money is printed than actual money from all countries in the world combined
 
Wealth fact: In the US, more millionaires are female.
 
Bathroom fact: On average, you will spend three years of your life sitting on a toilet.
 
Food fact: The powder on bubblegum used to prevent them from sticking to eachother is ground marble
 
Vocal fact: Whispering is actually more strenuous on your voicebox than speaking at a normal volume.
 
Animal fact: Ants are not found in only 3 places: Greenland, Iceland, and Antarctica
 
Irony fact: When Bill Gates had his custom mansion built, it was designed and rendered on a Macintosh
 
Disney fact: Walt Disney World generates 60 tons of trash per day on average.
 
Pet fact: All hamsters in the world that have been kept as pets descended from a single hamster captured in Syria in 1930
 
London fact: When the Great Fire of London occurred in 1666, about half the city was burned to the ground, but only 6 people were injured.
 
Plant fact: Castor oil, which is derived from the same plant as ricin (one of the deadliest poisons known to man, and which has no known antidote) is used as a lubricant in airplanes.
 
Music fact: The airport in Glousteshire England blasts Tina Turner music to scare away birds.
 
Plant fact #2: The bark of older redwood trees is fireproof.
 
Irony fact #2: The filming of James Cameron's Titanic cost more than the actual Titanic cost to construct
 
Food fact #2: Eggs will float in water that has sugar added to it.
 
Celebrity fact: Jean Claude Van Damme learned English by watching "The Flintstones"
 
Car fact: Most car horns in the US honk in the key of F.
 
Working out fact: Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie
 
Human fact: On average, it takes a person 7 minutes to fall asleep
 
Soda fact: 7-Up was so named because it originally was sold in 7-ounce bottles, and because the carbonated bubbles went up.
 
Animal fact: Reindeer love bananas, and no one knows why.
 
Food fact: Caesar salad has nothing to do with Julius Caesar. It was first made in a bar in Tijuana Mexico in the 1920's.
 
Food fact #2: A pound of potato chips is approximately 200x more expensive than a pound of potatoes in the US
 
Anatomy fact: A person is unable to taste anything until the food is mixed with their saliva.
 
Desert fact: Since its founding almost 500 years ago, it has yet to rain even once in the town of Calama, located in the middle of the Atacama Desert.
 
Animal fact #2: Ants display mannerisms much like humans. When they wake up, they often stretch and appear to yawn before beginning their day.
 
Economics fact: A new car costs more than it cost Christopher Colombus to equip and crew all three of his ships for his first voyage to the New World
 
Alcohol fact: Even a single drop of alcohol is sufficient to cause a scorpion to go insane and sting itself to death.
 
Weird law fact: It is illegal in Florida to fall asleep under a hair dryer in a salon.
 
Job fact: Approximately 1 in 8 people living in the US today have worked at a McDonalds at some point in their lives.
 
Ancient legal fact: The punishment for adultery on the part of a woman in mideval France was to have her attempt to catch a chicken, while running through the center of town naked.
 
Anthropology fact: When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over her left ear, it indicates she is in a relationship.
 
Canada fact: There is at least one report of a UFO per day from each province of Canada
 
Word fact: Shakespeare invented the words "bump" and "assassination"
 
Medical fact: Ingrown toenails are hereditary
 
TV fact: The premiere episode of "Joanie Love Chachi" was the highest rated TV moment in Korean TV history because "chachi" is a slamg term for "penis" in Korea.
 
Age fact: There is only a 1 in 2 billon chance a person will make it to the age of 116
 
Weird military fact: The US military operates 234 golf courses around the world.
 
What a job (alcohol fact) getting scorpions drunk. Lol

In 1999, Native Seeds/SEARCH and the United States Forest Service established the 2,500-acre (1,000 ha) Wild Chile Botanical Area in the Coronado National Forest. Located in the Rock Corral Canyon near Tumacacori, Arizona, the preserve protects a large C. a. var. glabriusculum population for study and as a genetic reserve.

Don't know if it's still there. Maybe someone here knows more.
 
Greek mythology fact: In Ancient Greece, it was believed that anyone with any shade of red hair would turn into a vampire upon their death
 
Patton fact: Gen. George S. Patton suffered from severe dyslexia growing up, and was a poor student as a result, even having to redo his first year at West Point for failing math. He eventually overcame it to become an avid reader and prolific writer.
 
Suicide fact: Statistically, most suicides take place on a Monday.
 
Ocean fact: The deepest point on the Gulf of Mexico is a deep as 11 Empire State Buildings
 
Weird state law: In Kansas, pedestrians wishing to cross the street at night must wear tail lights.
 
Exercize fact: Sleeping consumes more calories than watching television in the same time period
 
Book fact: The only person to have a book in every Dewey Decimal System category is Isaac Asimov
 
Champagne fact: On average, the contents inside of a champagne bottle are pressurized to between 90-100 PSI, which is 3 times that of a car tire.
 
China fact: The phrase "Sheng Nu" describes an unmarried woman in her late 20's, and translates literally as "leftover woman"
 
Animal fact: An elephants sense of smell is so sensitive, they can smell rain as far as 150 miles away
 
Recycling fact: Recycling aluminum consumes only 5% of the energy required to smelt aluminum from ore
 
Religion fact: In Islam, abortion is expressly permitted if the mother's life has been medically validated as being in danger or if the pregnancy is the result of a rape
 
Sports fact: In 1980, the Soviet Union refused to host the Paralympics (which traditionally is hosted by the same country that hosts the Olympics that year) because it claimed none of its citizens had disabilities.
 
Space Program fact: After the US and the USSR, the third nation in space was Canada, and in 1962, its program was considered more advances than either the US or Soviet Union's
 
Titanic fact: After the Titanic sank, the families of the ship's on-board band members were billed by the White Star Line for the cost of uniforms that the band members died in
 
Drug fact: Scotland has the highest rate of cocaine abuse in the world per capita. 1 in 40 people are addicted.
 
Rome fact: The income inequality in 150 AD in Rome was less than modern-day America, and Rome hadn't yet formally abolished slavery
 
University fact: The oldest University in continuous operation is the University of Bologna, which opened in 1088 AD
 
Everest fact: Statistically, climbers have a 4% chance of dying attempting to ascend Everest
 
Tragedy fact: The last year there were no deaths in school shootings in the US was 1981
 
Pharmaceutical fact: Gleevec, a cancer drug that costs $70,000 a year in the US, costs just $2,500 in India, because patent laws there forbid the patenting of pharmaceuticals
 
Band fact: The band blink-182 incorporated under the name "Poo Poo Butt LLC" to troll their accountants and managers, because they would have to say it out loud on conference calls.
 
NBA fact: Approximately 60% of NBA players go broke within 5 years of retiring from the game.
 
Savings fact: The Indian airline "Go Air" saves approximately $500,000 per year in fuel costs by hiring female flight attendants based on strict weight and height requirements.
 
Sales fact: In 1916, Harrods of London sold a kit that contained cocaine, morphine, syringes and needles, since both drugs (and associated paraphenalia) were all legal at the time in the UK
 
Funeral fact: 8 people were killed, and over 2000 people injured (all from crush injuries) during the funeral of Argentine First Lady Eva Peron
 
Da Vinci fact: Leonardo Da Vinci was spared from being executed on trumped up sodomy charges when no witnesses came forward to give testimony.
 
Biotech fact: 1 gram of DNA is capable of holding up to 455 exabytes of data, which is more data than contained on all the servers owned by Google (including YouTube), Facebook, and every other major tech company
 
Allergy fact: Children who avoid peanuts the first 5 years of their lives are seven times more likely to develop a peanut allergy
 
Royalty fact: King Harald of Norway vowed to remain a bachelor for life if he couldn't marry the woman he loved, who was commoner. As a result, Norway changed the laws to allow her to marry King Harald and become the Queen of Norway.
 
Graduation fact: By tradition, whenever someone earns a Ph.D in Finland, they are given a tophat and a sword monogrammed with their initials
 
TV fact: The creator of Spongebob Squarepants, Stephen Hellenburg, is a Marine Biologist by trade
 
Drug fact: 92% of all baby changing stations in the UK tested positive for traces of cocaine
 
Caste system fact: In India, there is a vigilante group called "Love Commandos" who protect people who fall in love and marry despite being of different castes, which is normally a major taboo in India
 
World record fact: Jonathan Lee Riches, who was arrested and sent to prison, holds the world record for having filed the most lawsuits by an individual, at over 4,000. When he discovered he was awarded the world record as the "World's Most Vexacious Litigant", he sued the writers of the Guinness Book of World Records as well.
 
Game of Thrones fact: The character Hodor brought awareness to a neurological condition called Expressive Aphasia, in which a person, while being fully capable of reading, writing, and understanding everything spoken to them, can only speak one or two words. This is due to damage to the part of the brain that covers speech, known as Broca's Area, caused by head trauma, stroke, aneurysm, and even in rare cases, the Herpes Simplex virus.
 
Royalty fact: In 1880, a queen of Thailand drowned in a river with people looking on, because by law and tradition in Thailand, commoners were forbidden from touching a member of royalty.
 
Cleopatra fact: Cleopatra VII, the last pharoah of Egypt, was the only ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty who was actually fluent in the Egyptian language.
 
Birth fact: The birthrate of twins worldwide has increased 76% since 1980
 
Antarctica fact: Because of the lack of friction by ice and flat terrain, wind speeds have been clocked as high as 200 MPH in some places in Antarctica
 
Ancient Rome fact: The cost to build the Colliseum was the equivalent of $380 million
 
Internet fact: Only 10% of people who regularly use the Internet have Twitter accounts
 
Anatomy fact: People who are left-handed, statistically, earn 12% less than people who are right-handed
 
City fact: The most expensive city to reside in is Singapore, followed by Paris
 
Sweden fact: It is illegal to name your baby Ikea or Elvis in Sweden
 
Prostitution fact: In Spain, prostitutes have to wear reflective vests like highway workers to reduce the chances of being hit by cars
 
Antarctica fact #2: The average thickness of the Antarctic ice is approximately 1 mile thick
 
Motality fact: A woman is 30 times more likely to die from complications of a colonoscopy than undergoing an abortion
 
Space fligth fact: Laika, the first dog in space, died when the cabin overheated, and not peacefully as the Soviets initially claimed
 
Airport fact: The largest airport in Iran had a Star Of David embedded on its roof, and was only removed when it was noticed by someone on Google Earth
 
Titanic fact: There are still conspiracy theories floating around that the White Star Line in fact, switched out ships and it was the Olympic that sank, and that the switch out was done to claim insurance money
 
Agriculture fact: 75% of the Sesame seeds harvested in Mexico end up on top of McDonald's hamburger and Big Mac buns
 
Crime fact: In 1999, Bhutan became the last country on Earth to introduce television. A crime spree of television thefts occurred soon after
 
Food fact: Of all the olive oil produced in the world, 43% comes from Spain
 
War fact: Joan Pujol Garcia was one of the few people to be awarded the German Iron Cross and an MBE honor from England in World War II, because he was a double agent for the Spanish
 
Holocaust fact: 99% of all the Jews in Denmark survived the war, because of a massive effort by the Dutch to smuggle the Jews to Sweden, which was neutral
 
Steve Jobs fact: Steve Jobs once called the CEO of Google to complain that the 2nd "O" in their logo didn't look quite right to him.
 
Holiday fact: The first Friday in June is declared "National Donut Day" in the US
 
Plant fact: There exists a plant in Australia that wil induce agonizing vomiting spells in humans who simply touch it, and the stings are potent enough to kill humans and horses
 
Ancient legal fact: In Ancient Egypt, if a man's wife or daughter was menstruating, a man could legally take paid leave from work to care for them.
 
Pregnancy fact: In 1977, Argentina sent a pregnant woman to Antarctica to try and claim the continent by claiming to have the first human being born on the continent be of Argentinian citizenship
 
Museum fact: There is an atomic bomb museum in New Mexico where the Trinity test took place, but because of the intense radation in the immediate area, it can only remain open for 12 hours per year.
 
Astronomy fact: Neptune was predicted to exist by mathematical models on the orbit of Uranus before it was confirmed by telescopes
 
Pollution fact: During the "Great Smog" event in 1952 in London, as many as 12,000 died in a few days' time from the intense pollution that swpt through the city
 
Iceberg fact: The largest iceberg ever measured is larger than the island of Jamaica (over 11,000 sq. km), and broke off from Antarctica in 2000
 
Workplace fact: Only 6% of doctors say they are happy with their jobs
 
Judaism fact: There has never been a single recorded instance of anti-semitism in India since Judaism first arrived ther 2,500 years ago
 
Animal fact: In Bhutan, before the advent of television, marijuana was used exclusively to feed farmers' pigs
 
Revolution fact: The revolution that dethroned the Emperor of Brazil was so uneventful that the few people who witnessed it had no idea what was going on, and the Emperor himself couldn't care less if it happened
 
World War II fact: Poland suffered the highest casualty rate of its populous in World War II. Fully 20% of the population died in the war
 
Hand fact: In the center of Nelson Mandela's hand print, there is a gap which bears a striking resemblance to the continent of Africa
 
Land fact: Finland gains on average 7 square kilometers in area per year. This is due to the land rebounding back from being under the massive weight of the ice sheet from the last ice age
 
Radio fact: On April 18, 1930, the BBC declared "There is no news today" and played piano music the whole day instead
 
Starbucks fact: The logo for Starbucks in Saudi Arabia had to be modified because it showed too much female flesh
 
Job fact: Job recruiters at major agencies spend, on average, only 6 seconds looking at each person's resume
 
Island fact: There is an island off the coast of Brazil that people are forbidden from going to by law, because there is an average of 5 venomous snakes per square meter on the island
 
Astronomy fact: The moons of Uranus are named after characters from the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope
 
Suicide fact: Cornoners ruled that Robin Williams' suicide was cause in fact by Difuse Lewy Body Dementia caused by Parkinson's and had nothing to do with depression
 
Mosquito fact: Mosquitos can mate in midair, and it takes only 15 seconds
 
Statue of Liberty fact: In the 1980's, The Statue of Liberty was found to have extensive Galvanic Corrosion on its skin, effectively turning itself into a giant battery. This was due to the paint and metal being constantly exposed to salt water
 
Book fact: Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde while on a 6 day cocaine binge. The book is over 60,000 words long
 
Racing fact: In 1923, a jockey died during a race of a heart attack, but his horse continued on and won the race, making him the first jockey to win a race after death
 
Elvis fact: Elvis was known to be exceedingly generous with his money. Once, he asked a limo driver driving him around if he owned the limo, or was working for a company. When the driver responded that he worked for a company Elvis paid for the limo on the spot and gave it to him as a tip. 
 
Medical fact: People who work 11 or more hours a day are 67% more likely to have a heart attack than those who work just 8 hours a day.
 
Twin fact: The easiest way to tell identical twins apart is to look at their belly button, which is the only part of the body no exclusively formed by genetics
 
Animal fact: Baby giraffes have a 50% mortality rate in the first six months of life, due to predation from hyenas, leopards and wild dogs
 
US Army fact: The US army was forced to admit that from 1944 to 1970, it dumped 64 million pounds of mustard gas & nerve agents, as well as 400,000 chemical filled bombs and 500 tons of radioactive waste into the worlds oceans
 
Dog fact: In Norway, it is illegal to spay or neuter a dog except under very specific circumstances
 
Astronomy fact #2: The sun's volume is so large, it could hold the equivalent of 1.3 million Earths within it.
 
Flag fact: Mozambique has an AK-47 prominently displayed on its flag.
 
Bible fact: According to the Bible, prior to becoming king himself, David was offered the hand of the king's daughter if he could come back with the foreskins of 100 slain enemies. He returned with 200.
 
Science fact: In 2011, a man in Sweden was arrested for successfully splitting atoms in his kitchen
 
World War I fact: In an effort to make tea, British soldiers would fire their machine guns randomly over the German trenches to boil the water in the machine gun barrels
 
Roman legal fact: The punishment for murdering one's father in ancient Rome was death by being sewn up in a bag with a viper, a dog and a chicken
 
Psychological fact: The voices heard while hallucinating are often shaped by location. In the US, they tend to be more harsh and threatening, but in place like India and Africa, they are more benign and playful
 
Random fact: There is a zipline connecting Spain and Portugal. It is 2,365 feet long, and takes approximately a minute to traverse
 
Ironic fact: The logo for the New Zealand Royal Air Force is a kiwi, a flightless bird
 
Ironic fact #2: The primary founder and first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, was an atheist
 
Prince fact: Vladimir the Great, Prince of Kiev, wanted to convert to a different religion, and considered Catholicism and Islam, even sending envoys to find out all they could about the two. When he discovered that Islam forbade alcohol, he got baptized into Catholocism that day.
 
Legal fact: In 1990, Belgium suspended it's king for one day so it could pass a law legalizing abortion, so that the Belgian King, a devout Catholic, wouldn't have to sign it.
 
Pollution fact: The five most polluted cities in the US are all located in California
 
POW fact: A British POW in WWI whose mother was dying was released by the Germans to go tend to his mother. Upon her death he returned to the POW camp because he gave his word to the Kaiser that he would return
 
Canine fact: Dogs are shown to be about as smart as a 2 year old toddler and can understand over 150 words
 
Naval fact: The US has 19 aircraft carriers, compared to 12 carriers all other naval forces have
 
Religion fact: Rastafarians in many parts of the world are legally allowed to possess marijuana, since it a religious sacrament for them
 
Telephone fact: New York City's area code initially was 212, since it was the fastest area code to dial on rotary phones
 
Earthquake fact: Due to the 2015 Nepal earthquake, Mount Everest shrunk one inch.
 
Debt fact: On average, US college students have $33,000 in debt upon graduating with the Bachelor Degree
 
Ancient Medical fact: In Ancient Egypt and Greece, obesity was recognized as a medical disorder
 
Relatives fact: Elvis Presley and Oprah Winfrey are distant cousins
 
Author fact: Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes on two consecutive days while travelling in Africa
 
Volcano fact: On any given day, between 10 and 20 volcanoes are erupting somewhere on Earth
 
Cat fact: Cats sweat through their paws
 
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