USELESS AND GEEKY FACTS
Added on: 21st Jun 2016
DONNA GRIFFITH IS CREDITED WITH THE
LONGEST-RECORDED BOUT OF SNEEZING.
IT LASTED 978 DAYS, FROM JANUARY 1981
TO SEPTEMBER 1983
LES MISÉRABLES HAS A THREE-PAGE, 823-WORD
SENTENCE THAT IS DIVIDED BY NINETY-THREE
COMMAS, FIFTY-ONE SEMICOLONS, AND FOUR
DASHES. WHY? ACCORDING TO RUMOURS
SOMEONE SUFFOCATED FROM LACK OF OXYGEN
IN THE 1940'S JUST SHORT OF THE SEVENTY-THIRD
COMMA WHILE GIVING A DRAMATIC READING
FROM THE WORK
THE LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES
WITH A ONE-SYLLABLE NAME IS FLINT, MICHIGAN
THE FIRST MAN TO SAIL SOLO AROUND THE WORLD
WAS JOSHUA SLOCUM. WHAT’S SO INTERESTING
ABOUT THAT FACT, YOU ASK? THE MAN
COULDN’T SWIM TO SAVE HIS LIFE
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER BEGAN HIS TRANSITION
FROM AN ELITE BODYBUILDER INTO FILM SUPERSTAR
WHEN HE MADE HIS SCREEN DEBUT IN 1970 UNDER
THE NAME “ARNOLD STRONG” IN HERCULES GOES
BANANAS. YEP, ARNOLD HAS ALWAYS HAD A
GREAT SENSE OF HUMOUR
CHARLES DICKENS KEPT THE HEAD OF HIS BED
ALIGNED WITH THE NORTH POLE, BELIEVING THE
EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD WOULD PASS
LONGITUDINALLY THROUGH HIS BODY AND
ENSURE HIM A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP
BLACK WAS THE ONLY COLOUR IN WHICH FORD
PRODUCED THE MODEL T. IT WAS THE ONLY COLOUR
AVAILABLE THAT WOULD DRY FAST ENOUGH TO
KEEP UP WITH THE PACE OF THE ASSEMBLY LINE
THE WORLD’S FIRST COFFEE SHOP OPENED IN
1554 IN CONSTANTINOPLE, CAPITAL OF THE
BYZANTINE EMPIRE. BUT IT WASN’T UNTIL 1683
THAT COFFEE WAS SERVED WITH MILK AND
SUGAR, AND A STRAINER WAS USED TO SEPARATE
THE GROUNDS FROM THE BEVERAGE
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