french short story writer ghee
demeppassant hated the eiffel tower
holbein carpets are named in honor of
hans holbein the younger who is known
for painting king henry viii the word
rubenesque comes from peter paul rubens
who like to paint zaftig women zaf dig
comes from the yiddish zaf dick which
means juicy or succulent the same person
designed st louis's gateway arch and the
twa terminal at jfk airport double stuf
oreos are only 1.86 times as stuffed as
classic oreos actress glenn jackson won
two emmys two oscars and then became a
member of the british house of commons
to have and have not was made into a
movie after howard hawks told ernest
hemingway he could make a great film
from hemingway's worst book the kalavala
is the national epic of finland only one
country's english language name can be
typed on a single row of a standard
qwerty keyboard drop its name in the
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got 190 facts to go so let's run that
intro
louis vuitton started out as a trunk
maker st patrick wasn't born in ireland
richard iii was the last english king to
die in battle the world's largest island
in a freshwater lake is manitoulin
unlike huron michael collins who fought
for irish independence was known as the
big fellow barry goldwater lost the 1964
presidential election the pulmonary
arteries are the only arteries in the
human body that carry deoxynegated blood
during the peasants revolt of 1381
revolutionary leader watt tyler made it
all the way to a face-to-face meeting
with king richard ii tyler was stabbed
in the throat and died willem de kooning
came to the united states as a stowaway
aboard the ss shelly on average tall
people perform better than short people
on iq tests british doctor william stark
looked into the effects of severely
limiting one's diet by severely limiting
his own diet he soon died of scurvy
eliza acton a struggling poet wrote a
cookbook in 1845 that introduced the
custom of listing ingredients and their
quantities in the mid-1800s ice from
massachusetts wenham lake became a
luxury good in england an ice producing
lake in norway was subsequently renamed
lake wenham germany's second largest
city by population is hamburg its fifth
largest city is frankfurt early 20th
century pennsylvania germans considered
it bad luck to take a bath or change
your clothing between christmas and the
new year time magazine once ran a
headline proclaiming quote richard nixon
asked a reporter to watch panda sex i'm
really tempted to provide some context
here but you know it's against the rules
that we made up adding bubbles to your
bath keeps the water warm for a longer
amount of time almonds and peaches are
in the same genus it was prophecy that
england's henry iv would die in
jerusalem in fact he died in the abbot
of westminster's house in the so-called
jerusalem chamber chet hanks went to
northwestern university sharks have
existed longer than trees on earth at
least can't rule out ancient forests in
a galaxy far far away a group of pugs is
called a grumble in the english language
four is the only number whose meaning is
equivalent to the amount of letters in
its name the red vineyard at arles is
the only named van gogh painting known
to have sold in his lifetime the serving
justice in u.s supreme court history is
william o douglas who sat on the bench
for more than 36 years figuratively
speaking after establishing himself as a
media magnate william randolph hurst
became a congressman representing new
york's 11th district the french and
indian war the american revolutionary
war and the spanish-american war were
each brought to a close by peace
agreements known as the treaty of paris
george dewey is the only american to
receive the title admiral of the navy
beethoven reportedly made sure that his
morning coffee was always brewed from
exactly 60 coffee beans jerry springer
was born in london's highgate tube
station during world war ii there are
approximately 200 semi-feral cats
roaming the grounds of disneyland a
newborn blue whale can gain as much as
10 pounds an hour from nursing during
andrew jackson's funeral in 1845 his pet
parrot had to be removed because its
swearing was disturbing attendees
according to pba rules a bowling ball
can have up to 11 holes the piece of
metal on the end of a pencil that holds
the eraser is called a feral giraffes
have the highest blood pressure of any
mammal for more than 50 years the banzi
top was composed of billy gibbons and
dusty hill known for their trademark
long beards and their usually beardless
drummer frank beard in 1810 the
production of nails represented 0.4
percent of the united states gross
domestic product on average finns
consume over 20 pounds of coffee per
year more than five cups per day people
in germany eat over 400 tons of meat
from kebab shops every day theodore
roosevelt's daughter alice had a pet
snake named emily spinach the spots on
holstein cows are like human
fingerprints unique to each individual
playing the violin for an hour burns
about 170 calories when making
shuttlecocks for badminton the most
prized feathers are said to come from
the left wings of geese olivia de
havilland and joan fontaine are the only
siblings to have won lead acting oscars
scientists are working on potty training
cows
amelia earhart and eleanor roosevelt
once left a white house event in full
eaming dress to take a quick flight to
baltimore dutch speed skater irene wust
is the only athlete to have won an
individual gold medal at five different
olympic games mozart was a freemason the
nazi party banned felix alton's bambi a
life in the woods believing that the
deer's story could be read as an
allegory for the struggle of the jews in
europe saguaro cactuses can grow to be
more than 40 feet tall but it can take a
decade for them to reach just one inch
in height while imprisoned in the tower
of london sir walter raleigh wrote the
history of the world nicolas cage once
spent 276 000 on a dinosaur skull then
found out it had been stolen from
mongolia and gave it back abraham
lincoln is the only us president to have
obtained a patent in 2013 while
competing at wimbledon roger federer was
told to change his shoes because their
orange souls violated the all england
club's dress code that distinctive smell
we associate with rain is known as
petrakore
cowboys linebacker chuck howley is the
only player from a losing team to be
named super bowl mvp africa is the only
continent with land in the northern
hemisphere southern hemisphere eastern
hemisphere and western hemisphere jazz
legend louis armstrong sometimes signed
personal letters red beans and ricely
yours captain henry morgan the pirate
that inspired the spiced rum brand's
name was knighted in 1674 by english
king charles ii percy bish shelley
drowned off the coast of italy in 1822
after a visit with fellow poet lord
byron byron was a literary celebrity who
received piles of fan mail a phenomenon
his wife dubbed by romania while growing
up a young david fincher was neighbors
with george lucas jupiter makes a full
rotation on its axis in only 10 hours
making it the fastest spinning planet in
the solar system scotland's national
animal is the unicorn martin luther king
jr received a c in public speaking at
crosser theological seminary in 1864
residents of leicester england became
known as ballona ticks after their
incensed response to a performance by
aeronaut henry coxwell's in the 1980s
pablo escobar's medellin cartel was
spending up to 2500 a month on rubber
bands yoda was partly modeled after a
photo of albert einstein ann jarvis the
creator of mother's day started a
petition in the years after its adoption
to put an end to the holiday when
frederick bower the man who invented the
pringles can passed away in 2008 some of
his ashes were buried in one when i die
i would also like to be buried in a
pringles can the human nose is capable
of detecting approximately one trillion
cents queen victoria survived eight
assassination attempts the space between
your eyebrows is the glabella john
quincy adams like to skinny dip in the
potomac river the wife-carrying world
championships take place each year in
schonke yarvey finland the dot over a
lowercase i is called a tittle as part
of david hasselhoff's divorce settlement
he retained ownership of the catchphrase
don't hassle the hoff fish cough
newborn elephants suck their trunks for
comfort in 1349 king edward iii banned
football in england on sunny days the
eiffel tower leaned slightly towards the
shade sean connery turned down the role
of gandalf in the lord of the rings high
schools in new zealand are allowed to
keep up to a pound of uranium on their
premises for educational purposes maya
angelou was the first black woman in san
francisco to be employed as a streetcar
conductor barry manilow did not write
his hit song i write the songs between
1912 and 1948 olympic medals were
awarded for architecture literature
music painting and sculpture lancaster
pennsylvania was the capital of the
united states for one day in 1777. actor
bella lugosi was buried in full dracula
costume cape and all rejected ideas for
disney's seven dwarfs included chesty
burpee hickey and awful there are more
than 200 corpses frozen on mount everest
newborn babies have nearly a hundred
more bones than full-grown adults
winston churchill called american
prohibition an affront to the whole
history of mankind flowers first
appeared on earth about 130 million
years ago the united states first dog
park was established in 1979 in berkeley
california ancient rome's laws of the 12
tables decreed that the punishment for
composing or singing a song that
slandered another person was death on
average september is the worst month for
the u.s stock market in 1806 a woman
named mary bateman claimed that her
chicken was laying eggs prophecying the
end of the world it turned out that she
was writing messages on lane eggs and
then forcing them back up into the bird
not as bad as the woman who gave birth
to rabbits i'll just leave that out
there
for everybody to think about
salvador dali claimed that he used the
same pomade for his mustache as marcel
proust gaius caesar supposedly ordered
the future emperor vespasian to be
covered in mud as punishment for his
subpar job keeping the streets clean as
magistrate when thomas more refused to
acknowledge henry viii's annulment from
catherine of aragon and the king's role
as head of the church he was sentenced
to be hanged drawn and quartered in a
nice break for moore the sentence was
commuted to decapitation anne boleyn was
already pregnant with the future queen
elizabeth the first during her
coronation in 1533. owls eat small prey
whole and then vomit up indigestible
parts like bones and fur as a young man
patrick swayze appeared as prince
charming in the exhibition disney on
parade in 1746 britain made it illegal
for most men in scotland to wear kilts
first-time offenders could be imprisoned
for six months without bail composer
gustav holst referred to astrology as
his pet vice in 2004 as part of a
promotion for the movie ocean's 12 a
diamond worth hundreds of thousands of
dollars was embedded into a car driven
by christian clean and monaco's grand
prix clean got in an accident on the
first lap of the race and the diamond
hasn't been seen since krakow poland's
1610 community regulations suggested
giving bagels to women in childbirth
brian younggun krauss set a guinness
world record by spitting a cherry pit
over 93 feet during a 2004 competition
the two-wheeled one passenger cart used
in harness racing is known as a sulky in
1988 steffi graf became the first tennis
player to achieve the so-called golden
slam winning all four grand slam singles
titles and an olympic gold medal in the
same year in 2021 paralympians dida
degrout and dylan alcott won their own
golden slams most bulldog puppies are
delivered via c-section william
shakespeare's wife was anne hathaway
incisor teeth never stop growing in
rodents a so-called red tide is caused
by a proliferation of microorganisms
like dinoflagellates any animal with
hooves is known as an ungulate after
discovering uranus william herschel was
made king george the third's private
astronomer the first nobel prize in
physics was awarded to wilhelm rimkin
for the discovery of x-rays isaac newton
and godfried leibniz independently
developed calculus in the 17th century
alessandro volta discovered methane and
built the first electric battery
norwegian roald amundsen led the first
successful expedition to the south pole
nellie bly was a pioneer in the field of
investigative journalism for her work
going undercover and a new york city
insane asylum abba and celine dion both
won the eurovision song contest it was
said that the politician kato the elder
eventually took to ending any statement
he made in the roman senate no matter
what the topic with the pronouncement
carthage must be destroyed the peak of
ecuador's mount chimborazo is the
farthest point on earth from the center
of the earth the last monarch of the
habsburg dynasty was carl the first of
austria the florence-born catherine de
medici was the mother of three french
kings the city of saint petersburg
russia was previously known as leningrad
and petrograd lyndon bane johnson's
beagles were named him and her mexican
war hero porfirio diaz launched a
revolution against mexico's president
benito juarez in 1871 demanding among
other things that presidents be limited
to one term diaz eventually served seven
terms as president himself genghis khan
established freedom of religion in the
mongol empire attila the hun died the
same night as one of his weddings
catherine the great's birth name was
zofia frederica augusta von anhalt
zerpst princess alexandra of bavaria
believed she had swallowed a glass piano
as a child and went about her life
carefully so as to avoid shattering it
17th century british diarist samuel
peeps kept a tame lion that had been
given to him as a gift
to minimize the demands on labor during
world war one woodrow wilson had sheep
graze on the white house lawn instead of
having humans mow it comedian dana gould
hosts a web show as dr zeus from planet
of the apes during the meiji restoration
the samurai class disappeared in japan
many former samurai took on civil
servant or teaching jobs instead simone
bolivar helped venezuela colombia
ecuador peru and bolivia all achieve
independence from spain during japan's
edo period women would blacken their
teeth around the time of their wedding
and shave their eyebrows after giving
birth to their first child nancy astor
was born in virginia and became the
first woman to take office in the
british parliament florence nightingale
was born in florence italy the t in
booker t washington stands for talia
pharaoh according to the roman historian
cetonus the emperor claudius was bullied
before rising to power people would
throw olive and date pits at him if he
fell asleep after dinner and would
sometimes put slippers on his hands
while he slept hoping he'd rub his face
with them it took around 2 million years
for the population of humans on earth to
hit 1 billion
the next billion happened in about 120
years we're now on pace for an
additional billion every 12 years when
the turco mongol leader tamerlane was
trying to invade delhi the sultan
equipped elephants with chain mail for
protection tamerlane put hay on his
camel's backs set the hay on fire and
forced the camels toward the elephants
who ran away from the danger stampeding
their own troops in the process the
first woman to serve in the united
states senate was rebecca felton but the
first woman to be elected senator in the
united states was hattie carraway fdr's
son elliott wrote more than 20 mystery
novels with many featuring his mother
eleanor as the detective in 1795 poland
was temporarily partitioned out of
existence at the 1968 democratic
national convention progressive
delegates tried to nominate julian bond
for vice president of the united states
even though he was seven years below the
minimum age for the position as defined
by the constitution in 1977 bond hosted
saturday night live the man often called
the liberator of chile was named
bernardo o'higgins the easternmost and
westernmost places belonging to the
united states are both called point
udall england and scotland were united
as a single state in 1707 under the
stuart queen anne north korea recognizes
kim il-sung and kim jong-il as its
eternal leaders since both men are dead
some consider north korea the world's
only necrocracy the court hyalai is
played on is known as a fronton the
basket you catch and throw the ball with
is known as assesta j and q are the only
letters that don't appear in the symbols
or names of any elements on the periodic
table ganymede the largest moon in the
solar system is bigger than mercury the
first american to win the nobel prize
for literature was sinclair lewis toni
morrison was 39 years old when her first
novel was published the writer george
sand and the composer frederick chopin
had a years-long romantic relationship
leo tolstoy's descendants celebrate a
bi-annual family reunion at his house
museum in russia pamphleteer thomas
payne was an aide de camp to
revolutionary war general nathaniel
greene robert e lee's dad was nicknamed
lighthorse harry today the letter h in
the american military alphabet is hotel
at various points in the past it was
howe hypo and have the white stork is
the national bird of ukraine for the
first 30 plus years of television
broadcasting in india there's only one
channel available there's an island made
of recycled mollusk shells off the coast
of senegal forty percent of the world's
pepper production happens in vietnam in
the ethiopian calendar a year comprises
13 months every year on august 20th
thousands of hungarians celebrate a
procession alongside the millennium old
embalmed right hand of king stephen the
first belarus is the largest landlocked
country in europe one of charles de
gaulle's nicknames was the great
asparagus richard wagner married franz
liszt's illegitimate daughter kozuma
dilma rousseff was the first woman to
become president of brazil during world
war ii future egyptian president anwar
sadat escaped from a british prison
years after his assassination in 1981
three of the men convicted for
involvement in sadat's murder briefly
escaped prison themselves supreme court
justice samuel chase's nickname was old
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