Useless Trivial facts

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  1. JulieW

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    Come on you guys!! This is trivial facts not trivial arguments!

    Useless Trivial Fact.

    Buzz Aldrin (second moonwalker) punched a fellow who claimed he didn't walk on the moon.

     
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    Adidas was founded by Adolph (Adi) Dassler in the 1920s.
     
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    Its worse than that $1 is for a 4-5 day local delivery time. If you want it delivered in 2 days you need to apply a priority sticker (costs 50c)
    Real cost is $1.50
     
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    And his brother Rudolph founded Puma
     
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    The song sung in schoolyards by generations of British children mocking Adolf Hitler for only having "one ball" might be accurate after all.

    A German historian has unearthed the Nazi leader's long-lost medical records, which seem to confirm the urban legend that he only had one testicle.

    The records, taken during a medical exam following Hitler's arrest over the failed Beer hall putsch in 1923, show that he suffered from "right-side cryptorchidism", or an undescended right testicle.
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    Notes written by Dr Josef Steiner Brin, the medical officer at Landsberg prison, state "Adolf Hitler, artist, recently writer" was otherwise "healthy and strong".

    Long thought to have been lost, the records of the examination surfaced at an auction in Bavaria in 2010 before swiftly being confiscated by the Bavarian government. They have only recently been properly studied by Professor Peter Fleischmann of Erlangen-Nuremberg University.

    Normally, men's testicles descend from inside the body into the scrotum during childhood, but Fleischmann told German newspaper Bild the records showed one of Hitler's testicles was "probably stunted".

    The records seem to contradict long-running specualation that Hitler lost one testicle to shrapnel during the Battle of the Somme in the first world war.

    That rumour was backed up by Franciszek Pawlar, a Polish priest and amateur historian, who claimed a German army medic who treated Hitler after the shrapnel incident told him about the injury.

    The medical records also contradict Hitler's childhood doctor, who told American interrogators in 1943 that the future Fhrer's genitals were "completely normal".
     
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    Will Ferrel turned down $30m to star in Elf 2. Surprising as he has an estimated net worth of $85m
     
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    The longest daylight stretch in a 24 hour day cycle this year. Good to know for leisure activities.
     
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    95% of people are immune to leprosy.
     
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    Work on the Pentagon commenced on 11 September 1941.
     
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    The scientists who analysed the plutonium for the first atomic bomb was called Mr Doom.
     
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    The four most common first names among new york city taxi drivers are Mohammad, Mohammed, Muhammad and Mohamed.
     
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    Armadillos are one of the few other animals besides people to contract leprosy.
     
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    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-9TD3oQq3g[/youtube]
    September 11 2001

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    Two world records ...
     
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    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuTsMco_brE[/youtube]

    Another world record ...
     
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    For 100 years the flag of the tropical Turks and Caicos Islands in the West Indies featured 2 igloos because an artist mistook salt piles for igloo dwellings.

    The worlds population is estimated to spend 500,000 hours a day typing Internet security codes.

    Kangaroos have three vaginas.

    In Victorian England, people who couldn't afford a chimney sweep simply dropped live geese down the chimneys :lol:

    The American SS tried to spike Hitlers carrots with female hormones to change him into a woman.
     
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    The Kimberley Plan was a failed plan by the Freeland League, led by Isaac Nachman Steinberg, to resettle Jewish refugees from Europe in the Kimberley region in Australia before and during the Holocaust.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_Plan



    With the support of the then Premier of Tasmania, Robert Cosgrove (in office from 1939), Critchley Parker proposed a Jewish settlement at Port Davey, in south west Tasmania. [16] Parker surveyed the area, but his death in 1942 put an end to the idea.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_a_Jewish_state
     
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    A quicker way to type this formula is to type:

    % increase = New Number/Original Number*100 - 100
     

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