Questionable Facts

Facts of questionable origins.

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image text} Questionable Fact #708 Maj. R. M. Dexter is thought to be the only serving English officer to enlist at the very start of WW I and survive until its end. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #707 When chickens eat blueberries in addition to their regular feed, the eggs they lay have greenish yolks. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #706 Studies have shown that colorful socks are sure signs of an outgoing personality. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #705 Approximately 8 million horses died during WW I. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #704 Three out of four American homes have an Igloo cooler. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #703 The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, lasted about 40 minutes, and resulted in a victory for the United Kingdom over the Zanzibar Sultanate. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #702 When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, her choice of a white wedding dress established a tradition that continues today. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #701 Over half the world’s seeds are delivered and germinated via dung. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #700 On May 3, 1952, it rained worms in Muncie Indiana. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #699 The US sends Cuba $4,085 a year for the lease on Guantanamo Bay, although Cuba has not accepted payment since 1959. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #698 Four of the five tallest statues in the world are associated with Buddhism. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #697 During the siege of Paris in 1870, to keep from starving, people ate cats, dogs, rats and zoo animals. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #696 One Google search uses as much energy as turning on a conventional 60W light bulb for 17 seconds. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #695 The largest Canadian peacetime maritime accident ever was when the RMS Empress of Ireland rapidly sank in the Saint Lawrence River after colliding in heavy fog with the Norwegian ship SS Storstad in May 1914 - 1,012 people died. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #694 For over a decade after it was first distributed, Mr. Potato Head came with plastic parts to be pushed into a real potato, but without a plastic potato body. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #693 Remains of early Huns show they wore coats made of skins of field mice; they used the only animals available in abundant quantities on the steppes. questionablefacts.tumblr.com

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{image text} Questionable Fact #692 Although Stan Lee originally wanted grey as the color for the Incredible Hulk, printing complications resulted in green being chosen instead. questionablefacts.tumblr.com