Jake Jacobs - The Giant Book Of Odd Facts (The Big Book Of Facts 12)

The Giant Book of Odd Facts

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Jake Jacobs

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The Giant Book of Odd Facts

Copyright 2018 by Jake Jacobs

Some numbers are illegal.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime )

Food Network's Chopped was originally supposed to be set in a mansion with the host being a butler. The butler was also to be holding a Chihuahua and when a chef was chopped, the losing dish was fed to the Chihuahua.

Reference : ( https://www.mediaite.com/food/ted-allen-chopped-butler-chihuahua/ )

Brazil has 49 prisons with no guards, where a system of self-rule among inmates has proved a success. These prisons are cheaper to run, have lower rates of recidivism, and are designed to benefit the wider community.

Reference : ( https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/apr/02/no-thought-of-escaping-inside-brazilian-prisons-with-no-guards )

A Turing Machine can be explained as a choose your own adventure book.

Reference: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZS_zFg4w5k )

The father of modern art in Thailand is an Italian sculptor named Corrado Feroci who constructed many famous Thai monuments, opened a renowned art school in Bangkok, and became a Thai citizen after Italy surrendered to the allies to avoid capture by the occupying Japanese.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silpa_Bhirasri )

The sunscreen rating SPF 15 means 1/15 th of the UV-B radiation is not blocked. SPF 30 means 1/30 th .

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunscreen#Sun_Protection_Factor )

Pessimism is one of the key symptoms of depression, and depressed people are more pessimistic when predicting the future than non-depressed people, even when they are given the exact same information with which to make their predictions.

Reference: ( https://effectiviology.com/pessimism-bias/ )

The pilot episode for the game show You're in the Picture went so poorly that Jackie Gleason used the time slot to apologize for a half hour the following week.

Reference: ( http://www.vulture.com/2012/01/jackie-gleasons-half-hour-apology-and-youre-in-the-picture-the-show-that-warranted-it.html )

Snapchat trolled Facebook on April Fool's Day with a Facebook filter, designed to recreate Russian bots on Facebook deployed during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. The filter placed a Facebook UI around the photo with Cyrillic script-like text and showed likes from your mum and a bot.

Reference: ( https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/1/17185566/snapchat-april-fools-facebook-russian-bot-filter )

WWEs The Undertaker is afraid of cucumbers. Paul Bearer watched The Undertaker, throw up all over a Waffle House because there was a cucumber floating in his iced tea. Bearer used to prank the Deadman by placing cucumber slices in his hat and gloves.

Reference: ( https://nypost.com/2017/07/31/undertaker-is-deathly-afraid-of-cucumbers-and-wwe-foes-tortured-him/ )

People from the lower classes in the mountain region of Austria consumed arsenic as a health tonic or for cosmetic purposes and became dependent to an amount that could kill a normal person.

Reference: ( http://ultimatehistoryproject.com/arsenic-eaters.html )

An MS-13 gang boss tried to get the gang into drug smuggling in the early 2000s, but had to split off because the gang members resisted putting personal profit ahead of the collective, and were inept.

Reference: ( http://www.newsweek.com/ms-13-donald-trump-jeff-sessions-gang-gangs-immigration-drug-cartel-mexico-855926 )

Thailand uses the Buddhist calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar typically used by western-influenced countries, which is 543 years ahead of the latter. That means the current year in Thailand is 2561 BE rather than 2018 CE.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Thailand )

In 1974, the city of Tanner, Alabama, was hit by 2 F5 tornadoes in 30 minutes. A man injured in the first tornado was taken to a church in the area, which collapsed in the second tornado, killing him.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Super_Outbreak#Tanner,_Alabama_(1st_tornado) )

Although there are more stars in the universe than the grains of sand on Earth, there are more atoms in your body than all the stars in the observable universe.

Reference: ( http://wafflesatnoon.com/stars-vs-sand-vs-human-atoms-vs-insects/ )

The Philippines has bread called tasty bread, which is simply a sliced loaf or sandwich bread.

Reference: ( https://www.thespruceeats.com/inside-a-filipino-panaderia-3030321 )

The phrase Eddie would go is about the Hawaiian legend and lifeguard Eddie Aikau who was famous for surfing and saving people from big waves on the North Shore. When no one would go, Eddie would go.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Aikau#Popular_culture )

In 2009, Latvian fire crews were called to a meteorite fall, which left a 20 meter burning crater. This created huge interest, but turned out to be a PR stunt for a new phone tariff. The PR company was shamed by the media, fines were levied, but the PR company won several awards as a result.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Latvian_meteorite_hoax )

There are no mosquitos in Iceland.

Reference: ( http://icelandmag.is/article/reason-non-existence-mosquitoes-iceland )

McGuire's Irish Pub is a popular landmark in Florida where the walls and the ceiling are covered with thousands of autographed dollar bills whose collective value has been estimated to over one million dollars.

Reference: ( http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/02/the-million-dollar-mcguire-irish-pub.html )

The Tasmanian devil has the most powerful bite relative to body size of any living mammalian carnivore, exerting a force of 553 Newtons.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_devil )

The International Fixed Calendar has 13 months with 28 days each. This makes every month perfectly divisible into 4 weeks and always starting on a Sunday and ending on a Saturday.

Reference: ( http://internationalfixedcalendar.com/ )

The stump-jump plough was a plough invented in South Australia in the late 19 th century to solve the particular problem of preparing mallee lands for cultivation.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump-jump_plough )

Madame Tussaud, of Wax Museum fame, was an artist in the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. During the French Revolution, she was forced to make wax death masks of both of their faces immediately after they were guillotined.

Reference: ( http://blog.raucousroyals.com/2009/01/madame-tussaud-witness-to-revolution.html?m=1 )

Shrikes is a type of bird that is known for impaling their still-living prey on a plant's thorns to save for later, store for their offspring, or attract mates.

Reference: ( https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/weirdest-shrike )

Recently, many people reported experiencing a reaction to eating pine nuts called pine nut syndrome. It results in a bad, metallic taste in their mouth that is heightened by sugar for 2 to 14 days. It can appear even if you have eaten them youre whole life.

Reference: ( https://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-bad-taste-in-my-mouth--20140722-column.html%3foutputType=amp )

Male calico cats are rare because of a genetic defect called Trisomy.

Reference: ( https://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/why-are-male-calico-cats-so-rare )

Before 1877, music listeners could only listen to their favorite songs when someone else was playing them, whether in a concert hall or at home.

Reference: ( https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-evolution-of-music-consumption-how-we-got-here/ )

China's one child policy, introduced in 1979, prevented the birth of 400 million people, as well as generated up to two trillion in fines.