Monday 4 December 2017

Some Random Facts_25

1. 47 Soviets died for every American in WW2.

2. President Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up by a week, so that the Christmas shopping season could start earlier.

3. The White House's pardoned turkeys aren't so lucky after Thanksgiving. Most die within a year.

4. Modern day Samaritans follow Samaritanism, which they believe to be the original, unchanged version of Judaism.

5. The Queensland horse fly was judged to have a 'curved rear' so Australian scientists named "Scaptia beyonceae" after the Bootylicious singer Beyonce.

6. What is reputed to be Mozart's skull is held at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, while his skeleton is missing.

7. If you find a meteorite in South Africa, it must be surrendered to the nearest authorities, it's protected under the National Heritage Law.

8. Rolex replaced, for free, all watches seized by the Germans from shotdown allied pilots in WW2.

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