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Category: Facts to Blow Your Mind

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Government & History

October 2, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

In 1952, Albert Einstein was offered the position of the second President of Israel. He declined. In the Great Fire…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: einstein, gaius dioclese, jackie mitchell, john hume, key west

Facts to Blow Your Mind • Lifestyles

September 4, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

November 2, 2000 was the last day that humans all lived together on planet Earth. Since that day there has…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: chess, loch ness monster, space station

How Bored am I?

August 8, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

In case you haven’t used enough data yet, the latest Excel spreadsheets have 220 or 1,048,576 columns; 214 or 16,384…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: apple calendar, excel, gravity points, youtube

The Body is a Fascinating Machine

July 10, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

Your femur (thigh bone) is the largest and strongest bone in your body. Pound for pound, it can withstand four…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind

Facts to Blow Your Mind • Fascinating Folks

June 11, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

In the mid-1980s, Fergie of the Black-Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown’s sister, Sally.  Wilford Brimley was once…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: dr ruth, fergie, harriet tubman, nichelle nichols

Mother Earth

May 16, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

Powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of Earth’s day, by moving the spin of the Earth’s axis. The 2011…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: NASA, world facts

Creatures Great and Small

March 2, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

“Panthers” are not actually a species of large cat, but rather are typically either jaguars or leopards. The thing that…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: african honeybees, dolphins, frogs, sharks, slugs, weird facts, weird facts about animals

Executive Branches

January 31, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

Ronald Reagan worked as a lifeguard in his youth at a beach near Dixon, Illinois, and saved more than 75…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: abe lincoln, donald trump, ronald reagan, teddy roosevelt, weird facts

Predictions that Never Happened

January 3, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

THINGS PREDICTED BY 2020 WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED In 2008, an ABC video warned about rising sea levels and showed much…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: albert robida, isaac asimov, killer bees, weird facts

FACTS TO BLOW YOUR MIND: The Nature of Nature

December 2, 2019 AnnMarie Kennon

Isaac Newton’s apple tree is still alive and growing today…technically. The tree was blown down in 1820, but remained rooted…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: guarana berries, helicoprion, isaac newton, mosquitoes

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