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11 Interesting World Cup Football Facts
Text Version: Quick Fact 761: “Soccer” was once a popular name for Football in Britain in the sport’s earliest days. When the rules for the sport were first being defined, it was named “Association
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The Top 55 Quick Facts of the Year
It’s been about a year since we did our last “Top Quick Facts” post here on TodayIFoundOut, so here are 55 of our favorites from all the quick facts we’ve posted since last summer.
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10 Quick Harry Potter Facts
Bonus Fact From the Archives: Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double through the first six Harry Potter films, David Holmes, was paralyzed from the waist down during the sixth film while practicing a flying scene that
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Another 10 Awesome Quick Facts
Image via Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com Image via s_bukley / Shutterstock.com 741: Golden Globe winner Richard Harris, today perhaps best known for his role as Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films
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10 More Quick Facts
Image via Randy Miramontez / Shutterstock.com Image via catwalker / Shutterstock.com Image via s_bukley / Shutterstock.com 731: In 1799, a young boy named Conrad Reed found a 17-pound “rock” while playing at a creek
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Another 10 Random Facts
(Image credit: NASA/ESA) Image via Featureflash / Shutterstock.com 721: The “Hercules beetle” lives in the rainforests of Central and South America and is known for being able to lift more than 850 times its
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Image via: Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com 711: According to Mike Tyson, his ex-wife Robin Givens was sleeping with Brad Pitt when Tyson and she were still married. Tyson stated in an interview about the
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Another 10 Fascinating Quick Facts
701) Love that “new car smell”? You may be smelling beaver butt secretions, which you’ve also probably at one point or another eaten. Secretions from beavers’ castor sacks located next to their anal glands
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Yet Another 10 Quick Facts
lev radin / Shutterstock.com Featureflash / Shutterstock.com Image via @SirPatStew 1. According to the Florentine Codex, among other sources, it is believed that the Ancient Aztecs were clean freaks, particularly compared to Europeans at
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10 More Random Quick Facts
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10 Random Quick Facts
Featureflash / Shutterstock.com Featureflash / Shutterstock.com Text Version: Fact #671: You should think twice before saying, “When Hell freezes over.” In fact, it freezes over quite frequent in the small village of Hell, Norway
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10 Quick Random Facts
meunierd / Shutterstock.com Text Version: Fact 661: Edgar Allen Poe married his first cousin, Virginia Clemm , when he was 26 and she 13. She died just 11 years later, inspiring some of his
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10 More Random Interesting Facts
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10 Random Interesting Facts
Mitch Gunn / Shutterstock.com Featureflash / Shutterstock.com Shirley Henderson- image source/ author- nicolas genin Featureflash / Shutterstock.com Text Version: Fact 641: In the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the person who finished in fourth place
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10 More Interesting Random Facts
Gisborne Airport -image source s_bukley / Shutterstock.com Bruce C. Murray / Shutterstock.com Text Version: Fact 631: Hachikō was a dog who would greet his master Hidesaburō Ueno at the Shibuya Station every day for
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10 Interesting Random Facts
Text Version: Fact 621- If you have a butt load of wine, you possess about 126 gallons (477 liters) of wine (1 butt). This is also known as 1 pipe of wine. Fact 622-“Play
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10 More Random Quick Facts
Jordan Tan / Shutterstock.com MISHELLA / Shutterstock.com s_bukley / Shutterstock.com Text Version: Fact 601: The “Red Bull” energy drink gets its name from the Thai energy drink that inspired Dietrich Mateschitz to create Red
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10 Random Quick Facts
lev radin / Shutterstock.com Text Version: Fact 591: In 2005, a 22 year old man by the name of Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant (stealing the money in the store’s safe) where
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