Strange But True #29 · 11:09pm Jul 27th, 2020
Weekly facts! Get 'em while they're still fresh!
1. As of May 2015, 2.3 Million Americans still subscribed to AOL Dial Up Internet.
2. The word ‘oxymoron’ is itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek where ‘oxy’ means ‘sharp’ and ‘moros’ means ‘stupid’.
3. 2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers.
4. The term ‘deadline’ comes from the American Civil War. Prisoners would have lines drawn around them in the dirt, and if they crossed this line then they would be executed by their guards. Both prisoners and guards soon took to calling this line the ‘dead line’.
5. During the First World War, so many starving wolves had amassed together in a great pack that opposing German and Russian forces formed a temporary alliance in order to fight them off!
6. In 2007, a 1000-gallon inflatable swimming pool was stolen from someone’s back-garden without a single drop of water being found!
7. A study showed that boyfriends do more housework than husbands.
8. A cheetah can accelerate from 0-60 MPH faster than a Ferrari F430.
9. Seahorse males bear the unborn young.
10. 1 in 9 Americans think HTML is an STD.
How does one steal a swimming pool I wonder? I must figure this out. For science of course.
Now that's what I call a clean job.
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Science. Riiiight. 👀
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Ayyyyyyy.
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