Strange But True #16 · 3:19am Feb 14th, 2019
A bit (by a bit I mean almost 2 months) late, but here is #16!
1. The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.
2. One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
3. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
4. Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.
5. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
6. Drying fruit depletes it of 30-80% of its vitamin and antioxidant content. Eat fresh fruit!
7. A 2010 study found that 48% of soda fountain contained fecal bacteria, and 11% contained E. Coli.
8. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
9. In 2006 someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price got up to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.
10. The toothpaste “Colgate” in Spanish translates to “go hang yourself”.
Wow!Amazing!
Actually, considering that in a game of chess you can just move two pieces back and forth, and there is no specified length, the number of possible chess games is in fact infinite.