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Stunning-Stuff.com brings you extremely weird news and odd, funny facts from all over the world. Have fun browsing our web site!
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| | | You are browsing the category Business & Politics. The facts are ordered chronologically.
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| American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class. |
| There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com. |
| The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy. |
| Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores. |
| If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people. |
| Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. |
| Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic. |
| The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City. |
| 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day. |
| More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid. |
| You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory. |
| Former enemies, America and Russia now have a great deal in common - they both lead the world in locking people up. |
| The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures." |
| Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics (aka brain disorder). |
| The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. |
| Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. |
| The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. |
| The highest publicly reported amount of money paid for a domain name is $7.5 million! Paid for business.com. |
| A single individual, Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste, owns over 200,000 domain names! |
| Every 23 seconds a Tupperware party starts somewhere in the world. |
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The highest publicly reported amount of money paid for a domain name is $7.5 million! Paid for business.com.
Your system of blood vessels is over 60,000 miles long. That's long enough to go around the world more than twice!
A single individual, Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste, owns over 200,000 domain names!
The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000 million miles.
Babies crawl an average of 200 meters a day. |
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