Obscure facts ya know!

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Queen Victoria quite disliked William Gladstone, the Prime Minister.

^ Gladstone was lucky. He lived past the age when monarchs had people executed for trivial matters.

Being loathed by Benjamin Disraeli was lucky?

Most people who have seen the world agree that the most beautiful country in Europe is Croatia.

Two days ago: In Rasdorf, Germany, ninety farting cows caused the cowshed roof collapse after methane explosion caused by static electricity spark. (No animal was injured.)

In America, living with two or more lovers is legal.

Marrying them is a crime.


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Online spam was first invented in 1978.

No one is sure why the extinct Diquis people carved over three hundred stone balls, some weighing as much as fifteen tons.

They were found in the forests, and some were bulldozed and destroyed, but the remaining spheres are valued by Costa Ricans, and have become a tourist attraction.

They look stunning. Are they real, I mean, ancient?

Supposedly the (extinct) Diquis People made them between A.D. 600 and A.D. 1500, but there are other theories.

Justin Bieber is left-handed.

Can we possibly deport him for that?

Obscure fact: Ruth Norman, cofounder of Unarius, believed that she was an incarnation of the Archangel Michael. Some of her followers fainted if she touched them.

Pope Formosus (891-896) was sued a year after his death. He was present at the trial.

When police inspected the room Bugsy Siegel was shot in, one of his eyeballs was found on the floor across the room from his body.

Portland, Oregon got its name because of a coin toss going a certain way. Had the coin flipped the other way, we would've had Boston, Oregon instead. Think about that for a second.

Roly-poly bugs are actually a type of crustacean.