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Weird Facts on Games

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1. Nintendo’s main man, Mario, actually first appeared in the arcade game Donkey Kong on July 9, 1981, and he went by the name Jumpman. 2. In this game, Donkey Kong was actually Mario’s pet ape who escapes and kidnaps Mario’s girlfriend, Pauline. 3. When Mario made his debut in this game, his profession was a carpenter since the game took place at a construction site. It wasn’t until Mario Bros. that Mario made the career change to plumber, as much of this game took place underground. 4. Due to the popularity of the Mario Bros. game in 1983 there was a huge increase in the number of people naming their children Mario during that time. 5. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari with just $500. Within 5 years the company earned $28 million, and by 1982, sales topped $2 billion.   6. In addition to starting Atari, Nolan Bushnell also founded the popular pizza and entertainment company, Chuck E. Cheese. 7. Bowser, the main antagonist of Nintendo’s Mario franchise, was original...

22 UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT WIKIPEDIA

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 1. Wikipedia's stats are jaw-dropping. It currently has more than 55 million articles across more than 300 languages.  2. There are more than 280,000 editors who take time to contribute to Wikipedia every month.  3. The Wikipedia service is accessed by 1.5 billion unique devices from around the world every single month.  4. There is a Wikipedia Monument (or "Pomnik Wikipedii" if you wanted to call it what the locals do) located in SÅ‚ubice, Poland. The statue was designed by Armenian sculptor Mihran Hakobyan and pays homage to Wikipedia contributors. It was unveiled in Frankfurt Square in October 2014. 5. We bet you can't guess who the first person to have a Wikipedia page created after them. Not a current celebrity or global figure — somewhat randomly, 18th-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid. 6. Improvements to Wikipedia pages about holiday destinations and cities can have an impact on tourism, potentially increasing the number of nights tourists choose to sta...

48 MOST INTERESTING UNKNOWN FACTS

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  1. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water. 2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. 3. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. 4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. 5. Ant's take rest for around 8 Minutes in 12 hour period. 6. "I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 7. Coca-Cola was originally green. 8. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 9. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. 10. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand. 11. There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." 12. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 13. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 14. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on...

17 WEIRD FACTS ABOUT SPACE

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  Space is completely silent. There is no atmosphere in space, which means that sound has no medium or way to travel to be heard. Astronauts use radios to stay in communication while in space, since radio waves can still be sent and received. The hottest planet in our solar system is 450° C. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system and has an average surface temperature of around 450° C. Interestingly, Venus is not the closest planet to the Sun – Mercury is closer but because Mercury has no atmosphere to regulate temperature it has a very large temperature fluctuation. There may be life on Mars. Of all the planets in our solar system (apart from Earth), Mars is the one most likely to be hospitable to life. In 1986, NASA found what they thought may be fossils of microscopic living things in a rock recovered from Mars. Nobody knows how many stars are in space. The sheer size of space makes it impossible to accurately predict just how many stars we...

10 FACTS THAT YOU AMAZE

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   It snows in the Sahara Desert Deserts are known to have very low precipitation. And if rainfall is rare, wouldn’t snowfall be even rarer? Well, the impossible happened in 2018 and the Sahara Desert was covered in a blanket of white snow. However, the snow only lasted for a day before melting under the hot sun. The first recorded snowfall was in 1979 — a snowstorm that lasted half an hour. Although temperatures drop to freezing in the night, the lack of moisture makes it almost impossible to produce any snow. But who knows, you might be lucky enough to see it on your next trip to the Sahara!  There are only two countries in the world where Coca Cola does not exist You might think Coca Cola is something you can find anywhere in the world but these two countries have been in long-term US trade embargoes — North Korea since 1950 a  Cuba since 1962. However, North Korea has made its own dark coloured soda. They call it Ryongjin C...