I’m suffering a mild case of writers block, I’m not sure if its with some excitement in recent day’s, or the studying my university course material, and material towards a MCTS. My brain is fairly tired today, I feel very sluggish and generally bleh, I told myself yesterday I was going to post a blog, but didn’t. So here I am today, making an effort. When my muse returns from the pub, I owe everybody a nice interesting topic, for now, some smaller things that I doubt you know.

Now saying I doubt you know, that doesn’t mean everything I’m going to list, it could only be a few things you didn’t know, but there’s lots of people I’m trying to teach a few interesting things to here. This is how I spend my bleh days, learning some really strange but interesting trivial facts.

It’s quite interesting to know, that one in every twenty people who read this blog will have an extra rib!

The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years

NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

Around 40% of the paper currency circulating the U.S after the civil war was counterfeit, in 1865, the u.s secret service was created to combat these counterfeit bills.

The human body starts with 300 bones, but it is reduced to 206 as they fuse together.

It is impossible to fold any piece of paper in half more than 7 times.

More people die by donkeys than die by plane crash each year. (Mark the year 2001 as an exception.)

The Koala Bear is not a bear.

The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway, employing over 1.6 million people.

The quickest won war in history was between England and Zanzibar in 1896, Zanzibar surrendered within 38 minutes.

The U.S.A bought Alaska from the Russians for 2 cents an acre.

WD-40 is aptly names as it was the 40th attempt to create a water displacing substance.

There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes annually.

The Tiffany & Co Jewellers make the Super Bowl Trophy.

The scissors where an invention by Leonardo Da Vinci

If you were born with a crooked nose in Ancient Rome, you were considered to be of leadership quality.

Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes.

In a deck of playing cards, the king from each deck represents a Great King from history, Diamonds represents Julius Ceasar, Spades King David, Clubs for Alexander the Great and hearts for Charlemagne.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

An oyster can change its gender.

in LA the casinos do not contain clocks.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic Which is ironic, as Julius Caesar was a massive fan of the stories of Alexander the Great.

And of course, for some misplace research:

The Shroud of Turin is the single most studied artefact in human history.

How ironic it would be, for this to be the shroud of a leper.

Have a nice night everyone!

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