Brown - The Giant Book of Awesome Facts

The Giant Book of Awesome Facts

By

John Brown

Kindle Edition

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Published by John Brown at Amazon Kindle

The Giant Book of Awesome Facts

Copyright 2016 by John Brown

Actress Kimiko Glenn was so small as a child that she had to take growth hormones.

Reference: ( http://www.npr.org/programs/ask-me-another/481110263/kimiko-glenn-celine-di-on-it?showDate=2016-06-17 )

TGI Fridays announced the removal of transfat by 2008, yet in 2016 they still use it.

Reference : ( http://nrn.com/archive/tgi-fridays-go-trans-fat-free )

Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress worn may have been bought off the rack.

Reference :( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dress_of_Marilyn_Monroe#Background_and_history )

Panorama Blue is the only known 70 millimeter pornographic film.

Reference: ( http://www.in70mm.com/news/2014/blue/ )

Linlithgow, Scotland, has a plaque and museum exhibit to celebrate the chief starship engineer Montgomery Scott, which Star Trek scripts state will be born in the town in the year 2222.

Reference: ( http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12781575.Linlithgow_opens_museum_to_Scotty__who_will_be_born_there_in_the_future/ )

The United States military is using a small turboprop attack aircraft in Afghanistan instead of only military jets.

Reference: ( http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/04/15/a29-super-tucanos-see-first-action-afghanistan.html )

The U.S. National Archive saves all of the presidents' doodles.

Reference: ( http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/09/all-the-presidents-doodles/305115/ )

Kamikatsu, Japans Aspiring Zero-Waste Town, with a population of 1700, has its residents and businesses recycle about 80 percent of the city's trash and only 20 percent goes to landfills.

Reference: ( http://www.odditycentral.com/news/kamikatsu-japans-aspiring-zero-waste-town.html )

Native Americans painted lightning bolts on their horses to make them go faster.

Reference: ( http://warpaths2peacepipes.com/native-american-culture/horse-war-paint.htm )

In the past 37 NBA seasons, the Warriors, Cavaliers, Mavericks, and 76ers have each won a single title. The other 33 titles have been won by only 7 teams.

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Waiters in America pay taxes on the food they serve.

Reference: ( https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/08/irs-tax-waiter-tips-automatic-gratuities )

Dubbing foreign films and TV shows into German is a very large industry. More than 40 companies dubbed 90% of the 175 English-language films released in Germany in 2013, each requiring two weeks of work. Some voices become as famous as the actors they dub in multiple productions.

Reference: ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/movies/dietmar-wunder-the-german-speaking-voice-of-james-bond.html?_r=1 )

Seattle has a "tiny house" village that homeless residents can use to sleep, eat and shower. It costs residents $90 a month to cover utilities, and is designed to help them get back on their feet.

Reference: ( http://learn.compactappliance.com/seattle-tiny-house-village/ )

Because of a U.S. State Department error, Richard Nixon believed that the Mauritian prime minister was from Mauretania. Confusion resulted as Nixon asking the leader of a jungle country and American ally about desert farming and the importance of restoring diplomatic relations with the U.S.

Reference: ( http://www.geocurrents.info/geographical-thought/american-geographical-illiteracy-perhaps-worlds-worst-atlas )

The Ocean Sunfish can produce more eggs than any other known vertebrate; up to 300,000,000 at a time.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ocean_sunfish&gettingStartedReturn=true )

In 2004, Pizza Hut fired an employee after he shot and killed a robber while on the job.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_delivery#Hazards )

Timothy Tyler is serving life in prison without parole for mailing 5.2 grams of LSD to a friend.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_L._Tyler )

There is no clear definition of what makes a mountain, a mountain, or a hill, a hill.

Reference: ( https://www2.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9799/2973 )

A steelworker today makes five times as much steel per hour as they did in 1980.

Reference: ( http://www.steel.org/about-aisi/industry-profile.aspx )

George Costanza's fiance Susan was killed off on "Seinfeld" because no one liked working with the actress who played her.

Reference: ( http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jason-alexander-seinfeld-killed-susan-800031 )

Mamoru Shinozaki issued 30,000 passes to the people in Singapore during World War II, saving them from being targeted and killed in the Sook Ching Massacre.

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

George Bernard Shaw sponsored a phonetic alphabet for the English language, with letters like "peep", "roar", "hung", and "ha-ha".

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

The first child to appear on milk cartons was Etan Patz, a 6-year-old from New York who disappeared while walking to the bus stop in May, 1975. He was never found. However, in 2012, a man named Pedro Hernandez confessed to killing him.

Reference: ( http://facts.randomhistory.com/missing-persons-facts.html )

The 1864 Charlottetown Conference, which resulted in Canadian confederation and the creation of modern Canada, was ignored by the local public because the circus was in town at the same time.

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

Two brown bears were caught performing oral sex in Croatia.

Reference: ( http://www.livescience.com/46364-brown-bears-caught-performing-oral-sex.html )

Richard Francis Burton, an East India Company official, spoke more than 29 languages, translated The Arabian Nights and Kama Sutra into English. He sneaked into Mecca for Hajj, for which non-Muslims are prohibited, in disguise. He was also said to measure the penises of men he encountered.

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

Elephants, horses, giraffes and ostriches are some of the animals which display homosexual behavior.

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

Princess Leonor of Spain has 37 consecutive generations of notable patrilineal ancestors.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor,_Princess_of_Asturias )

In South Carolina, in 1893, a man named Thomas Cherry killed another man with an umbrella for calling him a "damn puppy".

Reference: ( https://csidixie.org/numbers/counties/edgefield-county-sc )

The United States Government didn't declare Independence Day a federal legal holiday until 1941.

Reference: ( http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/july-4th/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-independence-day?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false )

Over 30 years ago, Buick introduced the first touchscreen infotainment system in a mass produced automobile.

Reference: ( http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2016/3/19/Tech-Before-Its-Time-30-Years-Ago-Buick-Put-The-First-Touchscreen-In-A-Car-7732598/ )

In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, many people bribe officials to declare their relatives legally dead, thus gaining ownership of their land. This led to the formation of an organization called The Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People, to advocate for those wrongly declare dead.

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

Bear Grylls was the first person to summit Mt. Everest after breaking a vertebrae. He also was the youngest Brit to summit at 23 in 1997, and he flew over the summit with a powered paraglider in 2003.