30 Cool and interesting facts for your day.

Nathan Johnson Published 03/20/2019 in wow

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1.
Mariya Oktyabrskaya avenged her husband's death in WW2 by selling her house for a tank. She drove the tank killing Nazi's.
2.
28 of the first 31 consecutive popes were violently murdered.
3.
The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time for the Nintendo 64 is the only game to ever get a 99 rating on Metacritic.
4.
Stalin’s Granddaughter is a Buddhist that runs an antique shop in Portland, Oregon.
5.
Half of Tokyo’s schools require students whose hair is not naturally black to provide baby pictures as proof.
6.
Alcatraz was one of the only federal prisons at the time that allowed hot showers.
7.
Mr. Rogers responded to every fan letter he received. He received between 50 and 100 letters every day.
8.
Willie Nelson has played the same guitar, “Trigger” for 50 years.
9.
The term scapegoat comes from an old Jewish ritual where they would put all the sins of the townspeople onto a goat and then banish that goat from town sending the burden of their sins with it.
10.
Conservationists in South Africa have been injecting rhino horns with red dyes and toxins to prevent poaching.
11.
Pat Sajak and Vanna White work only 36 days per year.
12.
A supermarket was closed down so that Michael Jackson could fulfill his dream to go to a supermarket and shop like everybody else.
13.
Cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world.
14.
In 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.
15.
Gordon Ramsay has chosen not to give his children a large inheritance.
16.
Pink Floyd’s The Wall is implied to be an endless loop.
17.
Ayam Cemani chickens are all dark.
18.
A track excavator climbing a purpose-built tower to show its might.
19.
A giant amethyst geode.
20.
An extremely rare set of 16th-century knives engraved with musical scores.
21.
The chip packets are all inflated due to air pressure at this ski resort at a high altitude.
22.
What a raven’s ear looks like.
23.
Astronaut Charles Duke left a photo of his family on the moon in 1972.
24.
An abandoned Soviet turbojet train.
25.
Throwing boiling water.
26.
An old Kodak film container.
27.
You can see the difference between tap water and sparkling water.
28.
Every year clothes are put on this church.
29.
Pomeranian Husky mix.
30.
A section of his skull was removed.

1.
Mariya Oktyabrskaya avenged her husband's death in WW2 by selling her house for a tank. She drove the tank killing Nazi's.
2.
28 of the first 31 consecutive popes were violently murdered.
3.
The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time for the Nintendo 64 is the only game to ever get a 99 rating on Metacritic.
4.
Stalin’s Granddaughter is a Buddhist that runs an antique shop in Portland, Oregon.
5.
Half of Tokyo’s schools require students whose hair is not naturally black to provide baby pictures as proof.
6.
Alcatraz was one of the only federal prisons at the time that allowed hot showers.
7.
Mr. Rogers responded to every fan letter he received. He received between 50 and 100 letters every day.
8.
Willie Nelson has played the same guitar, “Trigger” for 50 years.
9.
The term scapegoat comes from an old Jewish ritual where they would put all the sins of the townspeople onto a goat and then banish that goat from town sending the burden of their sins with it.
10.
Conservationists in South Africa have been injecting rhino horns with red dyes and toxins to prevent poaching.
11.
Pat Sajak and Vanna White work only 36 days per year.
12.
A supermarket was closed down so that Michael Jackson could fulfill his dream to go to a supermarket and shop like everybody else.
13.
Cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world.
14.
In 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.
15.
Gordon Ramsay has chosen not to give his children a large inheritance.
16.
Pink Floyd’s The Wall is implied to be an endless loop.
17.
Ayam Cemani chickens are all dark.
18.
A track excavator climbing a purpose-built tower to show its might.
19.
A giant amethyst geode.
20.
An extremely rare set of 16th-century knives engraved with musical scores.
21.
The chip packets are all inflated due to air pressure at this ski resort at a high altitude.
22.
What a raven’s ear looks like.
23.
Astronaut Charles Duke left a photo of his family on the moon in 1972.
24.
An abandoned Soviet turbojet train.
25.
Throwing boiling water.
26.
An old Kodak film container.
27.
You can see the difference between tap water and sparkling water.
28.
Every year clothes are put on this church.
29.
Pomeranian Husky mix.
30.
A section of his skull was removed.