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50 Random Facts List #197

01. James Watt calculated the horsepower by measuring the output of an actual horse in order to quantify how many horses his steam engines could replace.

50 Random Facts List #196

01. Lebanon made a massive bowl of hummus to get into the Guinness Book of World Records just so people around the world can recognize that hummus is from Lebanon.

50 Random Facts List #195

01. Martin Luther King Jr. started a pillow fight in the hotel room with other civil rights leaders in the hour before he was assassinated.

50 Random Facts List #194

01. The Supersonic airliner Concorde could burn up to 2 tonnes of fuel just to taxi to the runway, however, once at Mach 2 it was the most fuel efficient engine ever built.

50 Random Facts List #193

01. Once a year in parts of England flying ants migrate. Seagulls catch and eat them and then become drunk off the ants’ formic acid, causing them to crash into buildings and moving cars.

50 Random Facts List #192

01. Light bulbs in the New York City subway system screw in “backwards” (i.e. with left-handed threads) so that people can’t steal them to use at home.

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50 Random Facts List #191

01. 50 Cent once bought 200 front row seats to a Ja Rule concert just to leave them empty.

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50 Random Facts List #190

01. Vulcanizing rubber joins all the rubber molecules into one single humongous molecule. In other words, the sole of a sneaker is made up of a single molecule.

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50 Random Facts List #189

01. A 74-year-old Japanese man dressed as a ninja and possessing great physical ability, carried out 254 break-ins worth $260,000 before he was caught by police in 2017.

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50 Random Facts List #188

01. An elderly man gained the trust of a Belgian bank by bringing the workers chocolates. He was eventually given VIP access to the bank vault. In 2007, he stole $28 million worth of diamonds and vanished.

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50 Random Facts List #187

01. Dessert stomach is a real thing. Your gut expands upon contact with sugar and therefore makes room for dessert even after having the feeling of being full.

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50 Random Facts List #186

01. Hitting a fruit tree can make it feel threatened, spurring it to produce more or larger fruit to distribute seeds before dying.

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50 Random Facts List #185

01. Cats put their butts in your face because they are allowing you to “get to know” them.

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50 Random Facts List #184

01. Gold is so rare that the world pours more steel every hour than it has poured gold since the beginning of recorded history.

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50 Random Facts List #183

01. In 2005, the Republic of Fiji lost its declaration of independence from Britain. After five long years of searching, Fiji’s government finally turned to Britain, who provided them with a photocopy.

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50 Random Facts List #197

01. James Watt calculated the horsepower by measuring the output of an actual horse in order to quantify how many horses his steam engines could replace.

50 Random Facts List #196

01. Lebanon made a massive bowl of hummus to get into the Guinness Book of World Records just so people around the world can recognize that hummus is from Lebanon.

50 Random Facts List #195

01. Martin Luther King Jr. started a pillow fight in the hotel room with other civil rights leaders in the hour before he was assassinated.

50 Random Facts List #194

01. The Supersonic airliner Concorde could burn up to 2 tonnes of fuel just to taxi to the runway, however, once at Mach 2 it was the most fuel efficient engine ever built.

50 Random Facts List #193

01. Once a year in parts of England flying ants migrate. Seagulls catch and eat them and then become drunk off the ants’ formic acid, causing them to crash into buildings and moving cars.

50 Random Facts List #192

01. Light bulbs in the New York City subway system screw in “backwards” (i.e. with left-handed threads) so that people can’t steal them to use at home.

50 Random Facts List #191

01. 50 Cent once bought 200 front row seats to a Ja Rule concert just to leave them empty.

50 Random Facts List #190

01. Vulcanizing rubber joins all the rubber molecules into one single humongous molecule. In other words, the sole of a sneaker is made up of a single molecule.

50 Random Facts List #189

01. A 74-year-old Japanese man dressed as a ninja and possessing great physical ability, carried out 254 break-ins worth $260,000 before he was caught by police in 2017.

50 Random Facts List #188

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50 Random Facts List #187

01. Dessert stomach is a real thing. Your gut expands upon contact with sugar and therefore makes room for dessert even after having the feeling of being full.