Random Fact Sheet #150– Get Ready to Be Surprised With These 35 Facts

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26Human library

Human library

In London, there is a library (Human library) where you can check-out humans as a living book and listen to their stories.


27. In 2005, a Japanese man named Tatsuya Sakai won a world pistol shooting championship even though he practiced only with Airsoft and hadn't even held a real gun until a month before the competition.


28. Clint Eastwood bought David Webb Peoples' script for The Unforgiven in 1976 and sat on it for 15 years until he was old enough to play the lead role of William Munny.


29. The pilot script for "Scrubs" called for a "John McGinley type" for the part of Dr. Cox. He still had to audition five times to get that role.


30. There has been a book written from the perspective of a successful sociopath/psychopath about the intricacies of the life of someone with this condition called "Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight". The book, for obvious reasons, was written under a pseudonym.


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31Bakeapple

Bakeapple

In Newfoundland, there is a berry called a bakeapple. The word comes from French "Baie qu'appelle?" meaning "What's this berry called?"


32. Due to changes in local gravity, a pendulum clock accurate at sea level will lose around 16 seconds per day if moved to an altitude of 4000 feet.


33. American Journalist Anderson Cooper, soon after graduating college, forged a press pass and gained entrance to Myanmar to meet with students fighting the Burmese government. He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to Channel One, launching his journalism career.


34. There is an underwater island (Graham Bank) nearly Sicily where divers have planted a flag in for when it breaches to the surface they can claim it.


35. In North Korea, citizens are forced to choose one of 28 government-approved haircuts.

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