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10 Fun Facts
October 10, 2013
- The very first food eaten by a U.S astronaut in outer space was applesauce.
- In the classic cartoon series Popeye, Popeye’s girlfriend Olive Oyl was given a different name in Spain, because olive oil was considered too important to be a cartoon character.
- In the Harry Potter film franchise, all of the books in Dumbledoor’s office are yellow pages rebound to look “old.”
- In the film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the voice actor of Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer) said all of his lines while wearing a rabbit costume that looked just like Roger.
- The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
- In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans.
- Chickens were first domesticated for the purpose of cockfights, not as food.
- People who play video games are most likely lucid dreamers (the ability to control and remember dreams) than those who don’t.
- Most Japanese schools don’t have janitors. Instead the children do the cleaning daily to associate cleaning with morality. Let’s try it FDR!
- Macaques monkeys in Japan have learned to steal purses.
