1123 Hard To Believe Facts: From the Creator of the Popular Trivia Website RaiseYourBrain.com (Paramount Trivia and Quizzes) by Nayden Kostov

Author:Nayden Kostov [Kostov, Nayden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789995998004
Published: 2016-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

The Cyrillic alphabet was not invented by St. Cyril but by his disciples.

Most Russian cars are equipped by their owners with a dashboard camera.

Pluto is still considered a planet in the state of Illinois, USA.

The F-111 fighter jet was equipped with ashtrays.

The states of Hawaii and Arizona, USA, do not observe daylight saving time.

There were no ponies in the Pony Express.

There are 11 human body parts that are written with only 3 letters (jaw, rib, lip, eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, gut and gum).

Every third resident of Luxembourg is of Portuguese descent.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, a Japanese diplomat volunteered and fought the Turks in full Samurai uniform, armed only with a katana sword.

In a weird competition in Finland, men carry their wives over a 220 m (700 feet) obstacle course. The top prize is the weight of the wife in beer.

The Battle of Saragarhi (1897) was a heroic fight that lasted several hours between 21 Sikhs and 10 000 Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen.

Pokemons were originally called Pocket Monsters.

In the USA, a ‘13’ in the address of a property will reduce its value by more than $5000.

Maine is the only US state with a one-syllable name.

Greece and Australia have not missed the Olympic Games since 1896.

‘Will Will Smith smith?’ and ‘Will Smith will smith.’ are both sentences that make perfect sense.

The hashtag symbol (#) is actually called an octothorp.

The most expensive hole ever dug was in the state of Texas, USA. It cost over $2 billion and was part of a discontinued project called ‘Superconducting Supercollider’.

The first jack-o’-lantern was made from a hollowed out turnip.

Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand.

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