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Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.
Linus Pauling won for Chemistry and Peace. I guess Peace isn't a science, but still.
Crows hold grudges!
Crows can recognise faces and human behaviour. If you create a stressful situation with a crow it will warn others and it's offspring that you are a dangerous person. It will also remember if you are nice to it, so will recommend you to its family and friends :) Which is why the crows who visit my garden bring their babies to eat too xx
Potato chips cause more weight gain than any other food.
Detroit undercover cops in a drug ring once fought another group of undercover cops.
Dogs can smell cancer.
My cat can tell when something is wrong with my mother. My cat will come wake me up.
The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
So like they had committed murders before being placed there? Thrilling, tell me more!
America's first bank robber deposited the money back into the same bank.
Only in America folks. lol. Edit: I am an American so i do see the humor in all the roasts we get on BP.
The fire hydrant patent was lost in a fire.
Star Trek's Scotty stormed the beach at Normandy.
Born a Canadian he was in the Canadian Army and did indeed land at Normandy :)
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
Legend states that the Unicorns natural enemy was the Lion and Englands' National animal is .. wait for it ... A Lion.
Germany uncovers 2,000 tons of unexploded bombs every year.
WW2 relicts. I remember an anecdote, where a railway station was temporarily shut down because of that. An English speaking couple was terrified and asked "Do they know, who planted the bomb?" The dry (and correct) answer was "Yup, the Royal Air Force"
Tbf it happens in the UK too. We sometimes find presents from the Luftwaffe.
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In my home country of Laos too, since the Vietnam war, tons are still in the fields
Oh man, there is a sandbank called "paardenmarkt" in Belgium that is on low tide a mere 300m from the beach where 35,000tons of ammo were store with a minimum of 10,000ton of mustard gas bombs. The site is considered so dangerous that cleaning up the mess is not even a option...
Oh yes, happens every now and then in my city. "Found a bomb from WWII... area such-and-such has to be evacuated for half a day"
Oh my gosh think poor Laos. They’re full of bombs and lack resources to remove them.
My thought too... And so many victims every year
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During the war, the Germans built a decoy fortress out of wood. Unfooled, the RAF dropped on it a bomb - made of wood.
Ft Meade MD. They still find stuff in the old tank training fields that got turned into a state park. You have to sign a waver that states you cant hold the park responsible if you pick something up and blow your hand off.
Eventually, we will stop doing so. I mean, we haven't much use of those oldtimers anyway, ... no, seriously - there still are a lot of WW2 bombs around that just didn't go off, and haven't been found yet. At the shore (baltic or north sea, no matter), be careful if you think you found amber. That may very well be phosphor, and can burn a hole in ya pants way quicker than any money can! From ... Brandbomben, firestarter-bombs (were they called that?).
We just hide it well. Whenever we feel like laughing we go in the cellar so no-one will hear us. We do have an image to uphold ☝️
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I don't remember what war they are from but a few bombs were discovered in the forest fires in Slovenia not long ago
The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.
A 70-year-old woman once completed seven marathons in seven days, across all seven continents.
Bees can detect bombs.
Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.
Why is there a buy now button am I the only one who can see it!!!??!
Your liver can regrow itself in three weeks.
It's only partially true, this (and I speak from experience). If you've got cirrosis (even if it's non alcohol related) your liver never quite recovers, and the 'dead' or hardened bits never regenerate / regrow. but the other bits will compensate so it's all good unless your whole liver shuts down, then you're basically buggered unless you can find a donor / get a transplant
The world's biggest tire producer is LEGO.
Most laughter isn't because things are funny.
In Germany, people help toads cross the road.
They build small fences at spawning season and dig in buckets. Toads end up in buckets, which are regularly (once or twice a day, I think) emptied into the next pond.
There's a town in nebraska with a population of one!
The Bermuda Triangle isn't any more likely to cause a mysterious disappearance than anywhere else.
Redheads aren't actually going extinct.
Correct, go to Ireland or the West of Scotland. Infected with redheads ....
Riding a roller coaster could help you pass a kidney stone.
For 100 years, maps have shown an island that doesn't exist.
Dogs actually understand some English.
No, they can understand languages. Stop making this so English centered.
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Some of these "facts" are meaninglessly vague and lack context. Is there a translation issue? Or just laziness?
Laziness, I bet. I've never done so much Googling for a BP article in my life. Most of the vaguer ones now have links added in my comments.
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Some of these "facts" are meaninglessly vague and lack context. Is there a translation issue? Or just laziness?
Laziness, I bet. I've never done so much Googling for a BP article in my life. Most of the vaguer ones now have links added in my comments.
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