Obscure facts ya know!

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100 people can fit in the mouth of the blue whale. (NO WAY!! !)

Gallstones can and have been cut and polished and used to make jewelry.

An Octopus has 3 hearts.

Quintana Roo is the youngest state in Mexico.

Rin TinTin lived across the street from legendary movie star Jean Harlow.

Leeches have been used for 'medicinal purposes', bloodletting, specifically, a practice which often caused the death of the patient.

Sylkat, please google "Stalin oil rig Caspian sea" and you will find something bizzarre. A network of bridges 300 km long, an entire city in the middle of the Caspian sea. Today it's mostly demolished but it was once a real, living community.

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Now a real obscure fact:
There are three countries that have been at war against the Soviet Union in their own [former] territory. The countries are Germany, Finland, and Afghanistan.

China doesn't count because their war was against the Imperial Russia. For similar reasons, many other countries don't count. -- Now I have the feeling that many American members of WP are raising their eyebrows. Please, note that the US and the USSR were never at war against each other. In both world wars, they were allies. And in the days of the cold war, most of the time they were not enemies de facto.

The longest word (or a compound word) which is the same in many, many languages is "propaganda radio" or "propagandaradio", i.e. either with or without the space between the words. And why not "propaganda television"? Simply because the word "television" is not the same in all languages. The final -n may be missing.

Electricity is the movement of electrons across the outer valence ring. The smaller (1,2) outer electrons, the better electrical conductor. :/

When the classical composer Chopin died in Paris his sister came at his request (before death!) and had his heart removed (after death), also at his request. His heart was then transported by her secretly back to Poland where it is buried, while the rest of him lies in France. He was a de-facto exhile from his native country of Poland, but, it is where his heart still is.

In most European languages, the word for father is something like "papa" and the word for mother is something like "mama." The only language that I know that doesn't follow the rule is Finnish. We have "isä" for father and "äiti" for mother. However, and this is the interesting point, grandfather is "pappa" and grandmother is "mamma". I don't know the reason for this generation gap.

A tree branch that fell to the ground during Elvis' funeral sold in an auction for $ 748.00