In Muddy, Illinois, the post office measures only 7½ by 10½ feet, about the size of a garden shed. If it wasn't for a sign hanging above the door stating, "U.S. Post Office, Muddy, IL., 62965," finding the tiny, wooden building could be difficult. It is believed to be one of the smallest post offices in the United States
Alex Dumas, father of Alexandre Dumas, was a black French nobleman and soldier and a total badass who became known throughout pre/post-revolutionary France for feats such as capturing twelve enemy soldiers all by himself. Alex became the equivalent of a modern-day US four-star general. He shared the record of highest-ranking black officer in the Western world with his contemporary Toussaint Louverture, a record that wasn't broken until 1989. His personality and life story were a large part of the inspiration for his son's novel The Count Of Monte Cristo.
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Fear is a superpower.Angelina Jolie's first starring role in a feature length film was in Cyborg 2
with Jack Palance.
The first breast augmentation surgery was performed in 1895, by Vincenz Czerny
, to even out the chest of a woman who had had a tumor removed.
Paul Charles Morphy, an amateur chess player hailed as the greatest chessmaster of his day, once played eight simultaneous games against eight different opponents, while blinded against any of the boards (Paris, in 1858
). The results: six victories and two stalemates.
Ho Chi Minh's government, while communist and repressive, was popular with the Vietnamese people thanks to its land reform and allowing some autonomy within the village communities. Conversely, the "democratic" government of South Vietnam that the US supported rigged elections and was highly nepotistic and corrupt. There was land reform in South Vietnam, but it was more of the 'take land from the poor people and give it to the rich to sell back to the poor at a ridiculous price' kind. There's a reason why one government was more popular.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?The fencing moves that Inigo and Westley name during their duel in The Princess Bride are the names of Real Life fencing masters.
Vatican City contains approximately 2.25 Popes per square kilometre.
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOIn chess, the Napoleon Opening involves moving one's queen into the fray on the second move. It is so named because A) Napoleon Bonaparte is known to have used it and B) Napoleon's wife was notoriously adulterous, the joke being that he "couldn't keep his queen at home".
Bonus: Napoleon loved chess and believed it contributed to his success on the battlefield, yet he was reputedly a terrible player.
"I'm not a nerd. I'm a specialist." ~Sousuke SagaraStarfruit contains neurotoxins that normally pass through the body harmlessly, but having inadequate kidneys can cause it to poison you.
Nuts are fruit. Cashews and peanuts are not nuts, but they still both are fruit, and even then those two aren't the same kind of fruit.
Like peanuts, beans really are fruit. Guess the songs about it being the "musical fruit" aren't just trying to find a word that rhymes with "toot"...
Certain species of jellyfish are biologically immortal; when they reach their old age, they merely revert themselves to a younger age and continue.
Lobsters may be even better about this than those jellyfish. Due to certain protein structures produced in lobster bodies, their bodies seem to never degrade from age; they simply continue getting bigger and stronger (And more fertile) with age, and are suspected to have indefinite lifespans barring predation, injury, disease, ect.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. It is, obviously, ironic, and deliberately padded out with unnecessary parts just to make it longer. A more concise version is still pretty long, as sesquipedaliophobia.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!There is such a food as deep-fried butter. It is exactly what it sounds like; a stick of butter on a stick deep fried. Yo dawg I heard you like fat...
Super Mario has a hat because it was easier to just make a hat on his sprite than to animate hair moving from his jumping. His moustache is to help make his face more distinct since a mouth wouldn't show up at that pixel level.
Some species of monkey will find poisonous millipedes and rub their poison on themselves, to protect them from bug bites. Or to get high.
Pet tarantulas can imprint on human owners, much like a dog or a cat would.
Many tarantulas attack prey or defend themselves not by biting but by flicking their hairs at the target to cause irritation. Don't get them in your eye, it'll hurt! Though to provoke a tarantula into defending itself rather than just running away would require you cornering it to the point that you've pretty much brought it upon yourself.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!To expound on that, the strawberry isn't even a fruit the way we think of it. The individual "seeds" dotting the red object are the individual fruits.
A pineapple is actually many fruits fused together. Each little hexagon is an individual fruit.
Pomelos are one of the oldest fruits still around today, and are the ancestor to every other citrus fruit such as lemons, limes, oranges, ect.
A single acerola cherry, about the same size as a normal cherry, contains 65 times the vitamin C of an orange.
The banana tree is an herb.
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You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

While many people assume "thou" came from Old English, it was a second person pronoun used in Modern English that was replaced by "you". Old English was actually much closer to German, and would be incomprehensible to speakers of Modern English.
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