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An Oxford comma helped a group of truck drivers win a lawsuit against their employer. They sued their company for being refused overtime pay based on a confusing state document that lists the jobs that are ineligible for overtime, which includes the “packing for shipment or distribution of” products. Because the drivers distribute but do not pack their trucks, the absent serial comma after ‘shipment’ made the sentence’s intent too vague, and they won the case.

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Aviation Week magazine was 100 years old last year.
It has been named Aviation Week and Space Technology for some years now.
Went through a couple changes of title on the cover during the time as technology developed but it was still a continuous publication.

The ring-tailed lemur that smells the worst is in charge of the whole group.

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How about an obscure fact I just learned.

Russia has so many accidents due to icy roads that a car insurance agent turned it into a sport. ‘Car curling’ is just like Olympic curling except cars are used instead of stones. Each team has a group that pushes the cars toward the target (often biting it on the ice as soon as they let go) and a driver who either steers to the center, or smashes the other team’s cars out of the way.

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Ring-tailed lemurs have exactly thirteen white stripes and thirteen black stripes.

In the 1950s, there were ‘jump centers’ at gas stations across the US so kids could hop on trampolines while their parents stopped to fill up the tank.

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riboswitched mRNA is capable of regulating its own activity in accordance with the concentration of the small molecule that it binds with.

the average height of an israelite man in christ's time was probably around....5 feet.

While Napoleon, at 5' 6", would be considered short by today's standards, he was tall by the standards of his time.

A hot bath can burn as many calories as a 30 minute walk. One study found that men who spent an hour in a 104-degree bath burned 140 calories, moderated their blood sugar levels throughout the following day, and displayed an anti-inflammatory response that’s usually associated with exercise.

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Steve Wright, a reasonably well known (in the UK) BBC radio presenter, is allergic to baked beans.

In the first English translation of Death Note, Halle Lidner's name is mistranslated as "Hal". Which of course tends to be a male name. It was corrected in future printings and How to Read. The rather masculine Raye Penber's name remained uncorrected. Although the katakana reading, "Rei", tends to be a female name. Raye is canonically half-Japanese. Hmm...

And Mail, Matt's real first name, is pronounced Mile.

^How is an eye-roll an obscure fact?

The Last Unicorn was made into an animated movie and worked on by people who would later form Studio Ghibli.

George Washington braved the dangers of many battles, had horses shot out from under him, and crossed enemy lines to return a lost dog to its owner, but he was never witnessed as being the least bit nervous until the day he gave his inaugural address before Congress as the first president of the United States on April 30, 1789.

Senator William Maclay of Pennsylvania observed that ‘even the great Washington trembled when he faced the assembled representatives and senators:’ “This great man was agitated and embarrassed, more than ever he was by the leveled Cannon or pointed Musket.”

The first line of Washington’s First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789:
“Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month.”

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