It takes approximately seven minutes for a raindrop to fall from the cloud to the ground.
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In 2003, the mayor of Chicago…
In 2003, the mayor of Chicago illegally bulldozed the runway of a downtown airport in the middle of the night to create a park. This stranded 16 planes on the ground and required an inbound flight to be diverted. The FAA fined the city $33k – the maximum allowed at the time.
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A top-level Dutch football club signed…
A top-level Dutch football club signed up an 18-month old for a ten year contract, after his father posted a video of the boy kicking a ball into his toy chest 3 times in a row. After scribbling his signature for the club, the toddler celebrated with a glass of orange juice
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United Airlines had assured a blind…
United Airlines had assured a blind woman that they would help her off the plane but only after the other passengers had gotten off, before forgetting about her and locking the plane up with her in it after everybody else had left.
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A US IT worker outsourced…
A US IT worker outsourced his own job to someone in China at 1/5 the salary. He was only found out because a security audit discovered suspicious VPN activity. Evidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars […]
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An Italian atheist group wanted…
An Italian atheist group wanted to advertise on buses “The bad news is that God does not exist. The good news is you don’t need it”. When they were refused, they changed it to “The good news is there are millions of atheists in Italy. The excellent news is they believe in freedom of speech”.
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A psychic sued her hospital…
A psychic sued her hospital for neutralising her psychic powers with a CAT scan. A jury agreed and she won $988,000.
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Crazy Facts 2020-08-13 13:37:40
-40° is the only temperature that is the same in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
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Crazy Facts 2020-08-13 13:32:44
The four kings in a deck of cards represent real rulers. The King of Diamonds shows Julius Caesar, the King of Clubs displays Alexander the Great, the King of Spades depicts David of Israel, and finally the King of Hearts shows Charles of France.
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Crazy Facts 2020-08-13 13:27:30
On November 7 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term as President. The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was later passed in 1951, limiting a president’s tenure in office to two terms of four years each. As a result, Roosevelt remains as the only President to have served for more than two […]
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