Obscure facts ya know!

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on 24 october 1975, 90% of iceland's women went on strike.

who's to say that his eventual replacement wouldn't have been even more tyrannical and murderous? although he did play a major part throughout it's history, the nazi party was not entirely his own creation, and the sociopolitical atmosphere in germany during the interwar period most certainly would have allowed for something ugly to rear its head in the end anyway, even it hitler himself never came into the picture.

You can fit 63 Earths into Uranus.

Samus Aran was originally going to be male until someone on the design team suggested that it would be cool if there was a woman under all of that armor.

The International Space Station is as roomy as a five-bedroom house and travels at 17,500 mph.

All but 3 of the ships that were sunk at Pearl Harbor, were raised, repaired and sailed again.

^That's got to be some kind of record!

Cure Black doesn't like onions. (Frankly neither do I )

There are completely insane rumors from before the internet from various games, including hidden Pokemon that don't actually exist, secret Mario levels that don't actually exist, and a way to revive Aeris that most definitely doesn't exist.

No pun intended?

^ *shrug*

A tad late on this one: In addition to love and happy marriage, St. Valentine is also the patron saint of plague.

Veliky Novgorod means "Novgorod the Great".

Pamela Anderson has been in the spotlight since the day she was born. She was the very first baby born on Canada’s 100th birthday, July 1, 1967, and received a lot of press coverage for being named Canada’s “Centennial Baby.”

Medical conditions of tennis players:

Pete Sampras-thalassemia (Mediterranean anemia)
Denis Istomin-asthma
Rafael Nadal-born with a bone deformity in his foot
Venus Williams-Sjogren's syndrome

Wallabies make crop circles when they get stoned. Australia supplies about half of the world’s legally-grown opium, but when wallabies get into the poppy fields, they eat the seed pods, get high as a kite, and run around in circles until they come down.

Koalas are not as cuddly and sweet as they are commonly portrayed. They get drunk on eucalyptus leaves, bite and will pee on you if you pick them up.

In Goldfield, Nevada, there’s a mysterious headstone that reads, "UNKNOWN MAN DIED EATING LIBRARY PASTE JULY 14 1908", but nobody knows why. There are urban legends that explain his death and theories that disprove them, but the only certainties that remain are: 1. there are no proven facts about who he was or what happened, and 2. you really shouldn’t eat glue.