These sports fun facts are about football, soccer, baseball and more. What’s your favorite sport? During a game in 1957, a lady named Alice Roth was hit in the head with a ball. Specifically, it hit her in the nose and broke it. As she was getting taken away, the same player fouled the next …
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Have you read Fun Summer Fun Facts Because It’s The Season: Part One? Because this is part two. Americans eat 15 pounds of watermelon every year. The Eiffel Tower gets taller each summer. The monument experiences thermal expansion that causes the structure to grow due to the summer heat. It gets gets inches taller in …
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Enjoy all the summer fun facts for everyone’s favorite season. Or is it? The first day of summer is called the summer solstice. The summer solstice happens every year in June. Monarch butterflies spend their summers in North America before going south. The most lightning storms happen in July. Fire season starts in July, as …
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The United States is very different from other countries. Here are a bunch of reasons why outsiders like the United States. “Hospitality and kindness. On my travels in America, I found the majority of Americans to be kind, keen to help, and lovely to spend time with.” “NASA.” “Free refills at restaurants. Still amazed.” “I …
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We recently published Part 2 of our series on weird bans around the world. In it, we mentioned that Turkmenistan’s ex-dictator, Saparmurat Niyazov, banned lip-syncing to music. But that wasn’t anywhere near the weirdest thing he banned. Niyazov was the last Communist leader of the central Asian country and continued ruling it as “president” until …
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I do love me a good Western. There’s just something about rootin’ tootin’ six-shootin’ cowboys at the lawless frontier that’s so infinitely entertaining. Yet, in reality, there was little rootin’ and even less tootin’, while six-shootin’ was almost unheard of. Yeah, the real Wild West wasn’t actually all that wild. What we now think of …
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Every country in the world bans something, and often for a good reason. But often, the items or reasons for their prohibition don’t make a whole lot of sense. Earlier this year, we brought you a list of 10 strange banned things from around the world. That list, however, was far from comprehensive. So, let’s …
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Frogs and toads are pretty strange animals. They can breathe through their skin and undergo a complete bug-like metamorphosis, to begin with. But some species push these critters firmly into the “freakshow” territory. Or would you consider turning our bones into swords or giving birth through your back normal behavior? Yeah, that’s what we thought. …
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How do world-changing inventions happen? It’s easy to imagine dedicated scientists setting their minds to solve the mysteries of the universe through targeted, conscious effort. Yet, that’s not how it often happens. Some of human history’s most important inventions were absolute flukes. Here are just 8 tremendous discoveries that changed the world — that were …
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June 14th is National New Mexico Day. Here are a bunch of all the things including weird laws, fun facts and New Mexico-isms to help you celebrate this state’s day. If a newspaper in Quemado prints someone’s name and spells it incorrectly, the newspaper may be subject to a fine. You can visit the American …
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