12 fascinating facts for your day
Nathan Johnson
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04/14/2016
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Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus has retired all but 11 elephants and will retire those 11 after a final show May 1st, 2016. The elephants will go to a Florida conservation where they help with cancer research, as they possess a special “P53 gene” which fights cancer. -
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Van Halen’s “no brown M&Ms” clause was to check that venues had adhered to the safety standards in the contract. If there were brown M&Ms, it was a tell tale sign they had not. -
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Judy Garland was put on a diet while filming The Wizard of Oz. That diet, consisted of chicken soup, coffee, and … 80 cigarettes a day. She was 16 years old. -
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Steve Irwin was filming a documentary in 2003 when he heard scuba divers went missing. He and his whole film crew stopped filming to aid in the 2 day search and rescue of the missing divers. -
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A 19 yr old pizza delivery guy helped save a man’s life by performing CPR on the customer who was turning blue outside the house. He said, “I left a pizza boy and came back a pizza man.” His tip was 25 bucks -
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Approximately 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account -
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There’s a festival in Japan called ‘Kanamara Matsuri’ or ‘festival of the steel phallus’. Legend has it a woman with a demonic vagina destroyed all this towns penis’s until a blacksmith made a steel penis that destroyed the vaginas teeth. Now once a year they celebrate everything penis like. -
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“Pretty Boy” Floyd, one of America’s most notorious bank robbers, on bank heists, he was known for destroying mortgage papers, consequently freeing hundreds of people from property debt -
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Bob Ross used to receive up to 200 letters from fans per day. When regular letter-writers fell out of touch, he would phone them, just to see if they were ok. -
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Ashton Kutcher tried Steve Jobs’ fruitarian diet when getting into character for the ‘Jobs’ movie and ended up in the hospital because it messed up his ‘pancreas levels’ -
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Mark Whalberg served 45 days for attempted murder after beating a middle-aged Vietnamese man unconscious while calling him “Vietnamese f**king sh*t” -
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To prove that weight loss wasn’t about eating healthier, but rather just eating less calories; a Nutrition Professor consumed 1,800 cal of junk food per day for 10 weeks. Not only did he lose 27 lbs he also lowered his bad cholesterol and raised his good cholesterol
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