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Category: Facts to Blow Your Mind

Mad About March

February 28, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon

The last time the NCAA held its big basketball tournament (2019), workers spending company time picking and betting on brackets…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: julius caesar, march madness, pi-lish, st patricks day food

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Heartfelt

January 29, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon

Valentinus is not only the Patron Saint of sweethearts and love, he is also the go-to guy for bee keepers,…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: fun facts, ruby chocolate, valentines facts, weird facts

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Deep Thoughts

January 1, 2021 AnnMarie Kennon

More people have been on the Moon than on the bottom of the deepest point in our deepest ocean. There…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: weird facts

Sleigh What?

November 30, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

In Germany, Poland, and Ukraine, finding a spider or web on a Christmas tree is good luck. According to one…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: christmas facts, christmas trivia, holiday trivia

Facts to Blow Your Mind: Government & History

October 2, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

In 1952, Albert Einstein was offered the position of the second President of Israel. He declined. In the Great Fire…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: einstein, gaius dioclese, jackie mitchell, john hume, key west

Facts to Blow Your Mind • Lifestyles

September 4, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

November 2, 2000 was the last day that humans all lived together on planet Earth. Since that day there has…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: chess, loch ness monster, space station

How Bored am I?

August 8, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

In case you haven’t used enough data yet, the latest Excel spreadsheets have 220 or 1,048,576 columns; 214 or 16,384…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: apple calendar, excel, gravity points, youtube

The Body is a Fascinating Machine

July 10, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

Your femur (thigh bone) is the largest and strongest bone in your body. Pound for pound, it can withstand four…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind

Facts to Blow Your Mind • Fascinating Folks

June 11, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

In the mid-1980s, Fergie of the Black-Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown’s sister, Sally.  Wilford Brimley was once…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: dr ruth, fergie, harriet tubman, nichelle nichols

Mother Earth

May 16, 2020 AnnMarie Kennon

Powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of Earth’s day, by moving the spin of the Earth’s axis. The 2011…

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Posted in: Columns, Facts to Blow Your Mind Filed under: NASA, world facts

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