Obscure facts ya know!

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Bowling, in its original form, was an outdoor sport.


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Bowling, in its original form, was an outdoor sport.


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The John Philip Sousa Band still exists. It is now the Ringgold Band of Ringgold, PA.

The oldest continuously performing concert band is (depending on whose history you read) The Allentown Band of Allentown, PA or The Spring Garden Band of York, PA

Have Google translate "good speed" in Swedish and prepare to raise your eyebrows. The translation will be correct, though.

Wild Rice isn't rice.

It is a grass.


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Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for a couple of kilometers of coastline on the Adriatic Sea. There is no natural habor, just a holiday resort on the coast. On both sides of this strip of land there is Croatia.

Tree Lobster:

HUGE bug.

Only twenty-four of them exist in the wild, and they live in or under one tree, on one island in the whole world.


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Cousin!

Dear Krabo,
Did you Google those creatures?!

Obscure fact....

The losing team in the sport Ullamaliztli was frequently sacrificed.

Some anthropologists believe that the WINNING team lost their lives, since being sacrificed was such an honor.


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Obscure fact:

Adolf Hitler originally wanted to be an artist.

A number of his paintings were seized by the U.S. government, which still has them, but no one knows how many, or where they are.


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Dear WitchsCat, thank you so much for those!



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I wonder when and how that house was built

It is a secret.

Do you read Dan Brown's books?

Perhaps The Masons are behind the mysterious and intimidating construction.

Or The Illuminati.

Sylkat