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January 14, 2017

* FACTS 36

Hi Friends!

1.  A 2010 study of men who regularly worked out at gyms found that exactly 0% of them needed to consume protein powder.

2. Every single electric train in the Netherlands now runs on wind energy.

3. A recently survey has found that two-thirds of U.S police officers have been verbally abused by a community member in the past month.

4. As a young child, Hanna Simpson became very upset when her parents told her she couldn't have a pony. So, she began riding their cow instead. With no formal training, she taught Lilac, her pet cow, to climb over fallen trees, jump, and not buck her off.


5. Quentin Tarantino has confirmed that all his movies are somehow connected.


6. You could win a belated Valentine's Day date with Idris Elba by donating $10 to Omaze, a charitable website.

7. Tony Stark is $2.4 billion richer than Bruce Wayne.


8. The soil in Africa's Congo Basin peatland contains 30 billion metric tons of carbon, or 20 years worth of U.S  fossil fuel emissions.

9. Refrigerator doors are now magnetic because kids used to get trapped inside of them and suffocate. Before the development of the Refrigerator Safety Act in 1956, the doors could only be opened from the outside. Many children died because they found abandoned fridges and would get stuck inside of them while playing hide and seek.

10. Since January 1, 2017, Lake Tahoe  has risen a whole foot from the 33.6 billion gallons of water dropped by Northern California storms.

11. Stanford University doesn't charge tuition if your family earns less than $125,000 a year. If your family makes less than $65,000 a year you also get free room and board.


12. The Sketch that Jack draws of Rose wearing the necklace in the movie "Titanic" was drawn by the film's director,, James Cameron. The hands we see drawing the sketch are Cameron's hands, and he was also responsible for all the other sketches in Jack's sketchbook.


13. It requires seven to eight trees to provide enough oxygen for just one person per year.

14. A study claims that there are three categories of selfie takers : communicators, autobiographers, and self-promoters.

15. Between now and 2020, China is undergoing a "Toilet revolution" and investing $290 billion in the country's public restrooms.

Enjoy!