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Just general knowledge type stuff, or odd laws, or weird court cases, unusual facts ...

This one always stuck out to me - the fact that a simple deck of cards contains so much information:

80,658,175,170,943,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000​
Possible unique orders of cards in a standard 52 card deck (52!)
436,117,076,600,000,000​
Approximate age of the universe in seconds
0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005407%​
Approximate age of the universe in seconds as a percentage of 52!
 
Lord Chevy said:
Just general knowledge type stuff, or odd laws, or weird court cases, unusual facts ...

This one always stuck out to me - the fact that a simple deck of cards contains so much information:

80,658,175,170,943,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000​
Possible unique orders of cards in a standard 52 card deck (52!)
436,117,076,600,000,000​
Approximate age of the universe in seconds
0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005407%​
Approximate age of the universe in seconds as a percentage of 52!
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All the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion light-years
 
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All the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion light-years
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I looked it up - and damn that's a lot of bacterium! One site said 10 billion light years, one said a trillion. Taking the 10B number - that means all those little buggers would stretch across ~ 10% of the observable universe!
 
Ice pops were invented by an 11-year-old by accident
In 1905, an 11-year-old boy named Frank Epperson left soda powder and water outside overnight with its wooden stirrer still in the cup. The mixture had frozen in the chilly nighttime weather, and so the Epsicle was born. He sold the treat around his neighborhood and a nearby amusement park and even patented the recipe. Years later, he changed the name to Popsicle because that’s what his kids called their pop’s concoction.
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Under the Weird Court Case category:

Husband Sues Wife Over Ugly Baby

Boy meets a pretty girl, the boy marries this girl, they end up having a kid together. However this tale does not have such a happy ending. Jian Feng from China saw his newborn daughter and asked why she was “incredibly ugly” and did not look like either parent. He accused his wife of cheating on him. At that point, she admitted she had several plastic surgeries before they had met. He sued her on the grounds of false pretenses, claiming she misled him by hiding her cosmetic surgery history. He won the case, and his wife was made to pay him more than $120,000.

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The Strangest Lawsuits of All Time

Many of us have heard of people slipping and falling or finding a piece of metal in their food at the restaurant and cashing out big on someone else's dime. However you would be surprised to the extent that some of these cases stretch to. That being said, here is a compiled list of some of the...
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Your brain uses up around 20 percent of your body's blood and oxygen.

The human brain is responsible for countless tasks and is always busy keeping our internal systems running. In order to remain so vitally productive, the brain uses 20 percent of both the oxygen and the blood in your body, according to Healthline.
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  • Australia is wider than the moon.
  • Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise.
  • Allodoxaphobia is the fear of other people’s opinions.
  • Human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot heal themselves.
  • Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport.
  • The first person processed at Ellis Island was a 15-year-old girl from Ireland.
  • Google Images was created after Jennifer Lopez wore the green dress at the 2000 Grammys.
  • Lemons float, but limes sink.
  • The Eiffel Tower was originally made for Barcelona.
  • It would take 19 minutes to fall to the center of the Earth.
  • The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe.
  • Neil Armstrong’s hair was sold in 2004 for $3,000.
  • The longest English word is 189,819 letters long.
  • The tiny pocket in jeans was designed to store pocket watches.
  • People once ate arsenic to improve their skin.
  • “The Terminator” script was sold for $1.
  • Penicillin was first called “mold juice.”
  • A fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
  • The quickest commercial flight in the world is in Scotland.
  • The first commercial passenger flight lasted only 23 minutes.
  • No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.
  • There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive.
  • Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world.
  • The circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long.
  • The Pope can’t be an organ donor.
  • The world’s longest concert lasted 453 hours.
  • It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose.
  • Africa is the only continent in all four hemispheres.
  • All mammals get goosebumps.
  • Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people.
  • McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli.
  • Finland has more saunas than cars.
  • The longest time someone has spent holding their breath underwater is 24 minutes and 37 seconds.

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A chicken once lived for 18 months without a head.
Mike the chicken's incredible feat was recorded back in the 1940s in the USA. He survived as his jugular vein and most of his brainstem were left mostly intact, ensuring just enough brain function remained for survival. In the majority of cases, a headless chicken dies in a matter of minutes.
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