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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 23-03-2021 19:02

If you have the feeling you’ve experienced an event before in real life, call it déjà vu.

If you feel like you’ve previously experienced an event in a dream instead, there’s a different term for it: déjà rêvé.


RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 23-03-2021 19:03

During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes."

The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.


RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 23-03-2021 19:05

In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block.'"

It contained a total of zero words.


RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 23-03-2021 19:06

Volvo gave away the 1962 patent for their revolutionary three-point seat belt for free, in order to save lives.


RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 24-03-2021 10:04

It would take 19 minutes to fall from the North Pole to the Earth’s core.


RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 24-03-2021 21:48

Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.


RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 24-03-2021 21:50

The tongue is the only muscle in one’s body that is attached from one end.


RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 24-03-2021 21:51

An Italian banker, Gilberto Baschiera is considered a modern-day Robin Hood.

Over the course of 7 years, he secretly diverted 1 million euros to poorer clients from the wealthy ones so they could qualify for loans.

He made no profit and avoided jail in 2018 due to a plea bargain.


RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 24-03-2021 21:52

In 2009, Stephen Hawking held a reception for time travelers, but didn’t publicize it until after.

This way, only those who could time travel would be able to attend.

Nobody else attended.


RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Skyline - 10-04-2021 15:37

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