36 Noteworthy Random Facts To Help You Keep Your Mind Sharp | Random List #133

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26Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was an adamant vegetarian. In one instance his aunt requested chicken for dinner. When arriving at the table, she found a live chicken tied to her chair, and a butcher knife on her placemat.


27. There is actually a superhero called "normalman." He was the only person without superpowers on a planet full of superheroes.


28. Grace Hall Hemingway, the mother of Ernest Hemingway (author, soldier, hunter, boxer, drinker, famous manly man) often dressed young Ernest and his older sister in matching pink flowery dresses (and similar outfits) to fulfill her obsessive desire to instead be a mother to a pair of twin girls.


29. If you hear "Would Inspector Sands please report to the operations room immediately" in a UK Railway Station, it's coded alert to emergency personnel that could mean anything from a fire to a bomb alert. This code is used to avoid causing a panic.


30. If a Bald Eagle loses a feather, it will lose the same feather on the other side to remain balanced.


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31Lombardi's Pizza

Lombardi's Pizza

The first pizzeria (Lombardi's Pizza) in the US Opened in 1905 and still runs to this day, it even offered Pizzas for 5 cents for its 100th Birthday.


32. Steve Carell owns the 158-year-old Marshfield Hills General Store in Marshfield Massachusetts. He even claims he mans the cash register there "as time permits."


33. Cabbage, kale, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, Chinese cabbage, and savoy are all the same species of plant (Brassica oleracea) but have been selectively bred so much that they barely resemble the same genus, let alone the same species.


34. Fluoroantimonic acid is the strongest super-acid known to man. It is 2x10^19 times more acidic than 100% Sulfuric and can dissolve glass and many other substances.


35. Cats are banned from the world's northernmost city of Longyearbyen in Norway because they pose a threat to the local bird population.


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36Goal

Goal

A study has revealed that when you tell someone your goal or a thing you're planning on doing, it chemically satisfies your brain in a manner that's similar to having actually completed the goal.

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