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5 fun facts about the U.S. Olympic team For some reason or another, we tend to accumulate knowledge that is pretty useless. These trivial facts, however, can be fun to share even if they don't ...
The most interesting house in Poland. Kursdorf: A village that was abandoned after being gradually encircled after a nearby major aiport, resulting in an average sound level of nearly 60 decibels. It earned the title of "the loudest village in Germany". Lacus Curtius: A pit in the middle of the Roman Forum; even the Romans didn't know why it ...
The FBI's name for their undercover operation of investigation, and at times disruption, of influential groups and people in the inland United States during the Cold War. Some of the most famous individuals observed in this operation include: Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, Charles Chaplin and Malcolm X .
v. t. e. Wikipedia:Did you know ( DYK) is the project page for the "Did you know" section on the Main Page. The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section. The choice of articles is subject to a set of criteria that are set out on this page.
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Warhol (fame) This is a unit of fame or hype, derived from the dictum attributed to Andy Warhol that "everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes". It represents fifteen minutes of fame. Some multiples are: 1 kilowarhol – famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric "nine-day wonder".
Despite this, a British panel show compiling interesting facts has been given the name Duck Quacks Don't Echo. 60 common starlings were released in 1890 into New York's Central Park by Eugene Schieffelin, but there is no evidence that he was trying to introduce every bird species mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare into North America.