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81Scooby Doo
The phrase "And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!" Was never said throughout the entire original run of Scooby Doo. Also, the phrase "Meddling kids" was only used 3 times.
82Tomb of Alexander
The body of Alexander the Great has been lost over time. It was well-known to be in Alexandria, Egypt for centuries and was even worshipped for a while, but its exact location has apparently been forgotten.
83Ottawa Capital Compromise
Queen Victoria's selection of Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857 was a political compromise, chosen for its location between Toronto and Montreal. This decision aimed to appease both English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians.
84NHS Email Storm Disrupts Operations
In 2016, someone at the National Health Service in England sent a test email to 840,000 colleagues, leading to one of the largest reply-all storms. The incident resulted in 168 million emails and disrupted the health system for half a day.
85Lorenzo Music
Lorenzo Music, the voice of Garfield used to volunteer at a suicide hotline. Callers would sometimes change their tone to remark, “Hey, you sound just like that cat on TV!”
86Lynne Cox
In 1987 Lynne Cox swam from the United States to The Soviet Union (Little Diomede in Alaska to Big Diomede) and in the process eased Cold War tensions.
87Fingers
There are no muscles in your fingers. Their function is controlled by muscles in your palms and arms.
88Theory of ruin value
Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, was an adherent of the "theory of ruin value." His architectural goal was constructing buildings that would later collapse into aesthetically-pleasing ruins over the course of thousands of years.
89Terror and horror
Gothic literature makes a distinction between "terror" and "horror." Terror is the sense of dread and apprehension that precedes an experience, horror is the sense of revulsion after an experience.
90Ostriches
Ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand to hide from enemies. This misconception was probably promulgated by Pliny the Elder (23–79 C.E.), who wrote that ostriches, "imagine, when they have thrust their head and neck into a bush, that the whole of their body is concealed."
