Obscure facts ya know!

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Some people still believe that the remains of two burned bodies found outside Hitler's bunker by the Russians were not Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun.

He was known to have had three to five 'doubles', possibly surgically-altered to closely resemble him, and it is believed that the male body could have belonged to one of them.

I do not know whom the theorists believe the female body was, if not Eva, however:

There is an article in the NZHerald, April 5,2014, that states that tests on hair from Eva's hairbrush proved that her ancestors were Ashkenazi Jews.

White shower curtains make excellent voiles for bedroom windows directly on the street.

A typical house cat can run faster than Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. (Or maybe even Carl Lewis in his prime, circa 1986.)

The only cat whose claws do not retract?

The cheetah.

The plural of octopus is octopodes.

Hitler and Mussolini hated each other.

Mussolini had a Jewish mistress, Margherita Sarfatti.

Margherita Sarfatti toured America on a fund-raising 'mission' for Mussolini, and to present Fascist Italy as a potential ally for America.

Americans consume 99% of the world's Vicodin supply.

September, 2013.....an eight-month-old boy named Ryder Salmen died from drugs.

His mother was a drug user who brilliantly chose to breast-feed.

So instead of buying formula, her baby died.

A year earlier, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the same thing happened

The process of using ultrasonic frequencies to break up kidney stones (or gallstones) is known as extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. ESWL for short.

'laser' is an acronym for 'light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation'

You can calculate the speed of a bicycle in miles per hour (minus the effects of gravity and wind resistance) at a given cadence, if you know the gearing and wheel size, by using the following forumla:
speed = ((wheel circumference in inches * (# of teeth on front sprocket / # of teeth on rear sprocket) * cadence) / 63360) / (1 / 60)

All that was found of the body of the last czarina, Alexandra, was a single finger.

The Zip roller coaster that Harry Traver designed and built at Oaks Amusement Park in Oregon in 1927 was so rough that it literally shook itself to pieces. It was dismantled in 1934.

That is scary!

There was a famous roller coaster in New Jersey that was literally washed out to sea by Hurricane Sandy.

Luna Park was an amusement park in Arlington, Virginia, USA, from 1906 to 1915.

On April 15, 1915, a fire destroyed the Arlington park's signature roller coaster. According to the Washington Post, "the origin of the fire is thought to have been from sparks from a blaze in the woods adjoining the park" (the nearest fire hydrant was in Alexandria, Virginia, miles away). The damage was extensive, and the park's precarious finances forced the park to go out of business. The structures in the park were mostly dismantled later in the year, though traces of the park were evident until as late as 1988. The site is currently occupied by the Arlington county sewage treatment facility.

Believe it or not, the phrase "I've got a bad feeling about this" has become synonymous with the Star Wars film franchise, that it has been said in ALL six of the films. Time will tell if it will be uttered in any of the sequels, however.....