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Tag: weird facts

Not Just Pretty Faces

May 4, 2022 AnnMarie Kennon

Women own 36 percent of small businesses worldwide. Their aggregate revenue is roughly $1.9 trillion. The oldest mother is Rajo…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: facts about mothers, facts about women, weird facts

Facts to Blow Your Mind • A Spring Bouquet

April 1, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon

Donald Weder holds the patent for plastic Easter eggs and shredded grass. He also holds a total of 1,411 other…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: april fools, spring facts, weird facts

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Heartfelt

January 29, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon

Valentinus is not only the Patron Saint of sweethearts and love, he is also the go-to guy for bee keepers,…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: fun facts, ruby chocolate, valentines facts, weird facts

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Deep Thoughts

January 1, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon

More people have been on the Moon than on the bottom of the deepest point in our deepest ocean. There…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: weird 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

Time Warps

October 2, 2019 AnnMarie Kennon

The first man to fly in a plane and the first man to walk on the moon were both alive…

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Posted in: Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: facts to blow your mind, time facts, weird facts

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