Frederik'sFridayFact

Random facts that can come in handy to impress your friends in the weekend

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#fff The pop-rock band The Paul O'Sullivan Band has four members, all of whom are named Paul O'Sullivan; see https://t.co/L5ifGIpmNy

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#fff The last and deciding vote cast to pass women's suffrage in the United States in 1920 was that of Tennessee legislator Harry Burn. Although he was initially opposed to the amendment, his mother had told him vote in favour and so he did; see https://t.co/L5ifGIpmNy

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#fff Vehicles from UPS try to avoid taking left turns as much as possible (in countries that drive on the right) to save on fuel costs; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff Members of Parliament of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom are technically forbidden to resign, so instead they are appointed to an "office of profit under The Crown", which disqualifies them sitting as an MP; see https://t.co/L5ifGIpmNy

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#fff Currently, the only person to have been awarded an Ig Nobel prize and a Nobel prize is Andre Geim. He received an Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for levitating a frog and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2010 for his work on graphene; see https://t.co/L5ifGIpmNy

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#fff #fff666 Eating sarpa salpa, a species of sea bream, can induce LSD-like hallucinations also known as ichthyoallyeinotoxism, or hallucinogenic fish poisoning; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff Of all chemical elements named after a country, only Germanium and Gallium are stable, the others, Polonium, Nihonium and Francium, are not; see https://t.co/L5ifGIpmNy

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#fff For a long time, the only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard was the drummer, Frank Beard. He finally gave in and grew a (small) beard in 2013; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff Last year, scientists from the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee changed the nomenclature of several genes to prevent auto-correction in Excel wrongly changing the gene symbols (e.g. SEPT1 is now SEPTIN1); see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff World Cocktail Day is celebrated on May 13th as it marks the publication date of the first definition of a cocktail on 13 May 1806 in The New York tabloid The Balance and Columbian Repository; see https://t.co/L5ifGIpmNy

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#fff The Scunthorpe Problem is the unintentional blocking of content by a spam filter or search engine. It was named after an incident in 1996 when residents of the town of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, could not create accounts with AOL; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Eiffel Tower share the same nickname: the Iron Lady; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff 1/9801 = 0.000102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162...; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff The episode "Mister Skinny Legs" of the cartoon Peppa Pig, in which Peppa is told "spiders can't hurt you", was removed from on-demand TV in Australia, which has many dangerous spiders.; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff Audi fits cars destined for the Indian market with louder and much more durable horns from India as the standard European horns would fail too quickly; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff Queen Elizabeth II has met in person more than a quarter of all 45 individuals who are or have been president of the United States of America; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff In 1976, nearly 3000 years after his death, the remains of pharaoh Ramses II were issued with a passport by the Egyptian government for passage to France; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff There is a traffic light in Dresden, Germany which has stayed red since its installation in 1987; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff Felids like domestic cats cannot taste sweetness; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI

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#fff Volkswagen's best-selling product is their Currywurst (or Curry-bockwurst) of which they sold 6.8 million in 2019. The VW sausage has it's own part number: 199 398 500 A. The accompanying ketchup has part number 199 398 500 B; see https://t.co/TQlLxAPzwI