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Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

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Diamonds. Diamond mining in Canada is fairly recent, the first mine (Ekati Diamond Mine) not opening up until 1998. In its first eleven years, 40,000 000 carats of diamonds came out of that mine (18,000 pounds) and it continues with around 7,500,000 carats per year.

Canada is the world's third largest producer of diamonds, with many other mines now running. Russia and Botswana are the top two producers.

One of the more famous brands is the Polar Bear diamond, coming from the North West Territories.
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Although synthetic diamonds are rapidly expanding their place in the market, some people still prefer the real thing.
 
Otis Elevators reports 85% of its elevator panels omit the number 13.
 
Every Purple Heart awarded by the military since 1945 is one of the 500,000 Purple Hearts manufactured in anticipation of American casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan.

That stock is still being used today.
 
Science fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine and namesake of the Hugo Awards, was also a prolific inventor. In 1925, he introduced one of his strangest creations: the Isolator, a helmet designed to eliminate distractions and maximize focus. Made of wood and felt, the helmet completely enclosed the wearer’s head, leaving only narrow slits for vision. After realizing that people became drowsy inside the helmet after 15 minutes, partly due to oxygen deprivation, Gernsback added an oxygen tank connected to the helmet by a tube. He claimed the device was 75% efficient and predicted it would be a “great investment” for anyone in need of focus. Though the Isolator never caught on, its spirit lives on in noise-canceling headphones and focus apps...

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Hygiene in the Old West was very poor due to limited access to clean water, lack of modern plumbing, and poverty. Bathing was an arduous task, often done in rivers or horse troughs, and frequently only happened once a week or less. Soap was not a priority, which was good because it was also not common. Deodorant? What's that? Body odor was often seen as a fact of life, as some believed being too clean was unhealthy. Sanitary napkins? No. Usually old cotton sheets or bits of old clothing, worn for days, sometimes washed and reused. Women did tend to focus on hygiene a bit more than men, and were seen as generally cleaner than men, but don't think for a minute that they were were nice to smell compared to what they were years later when hygiene improved....
 
When traditional film studios refused to finance 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail', the comedy troupe turned to an unlikely source: rock musicians. At the time, bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Jethro Tull, and Elton John were enjoying immense commercial success and looking for creative ways to manage their earnings.

These artists stepped in to fund the film, not out of artistic collaboration but largely because investing in movies was considered a clever tax write‑off. For them, it was a practical financial move; for Monty Python, it was a lifeline that allowed their absurd medieval parody to be made without compromise.

The result was one of the most iconic comedy films of the 1970s, blending surreal humor with low‑budget ingenuity. Ironically, what began as a convenient tax shelter for rock stars became a cultural landmark, proving that unconventional alliances can produce enduring art.

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In November 1970, residents of Florence, Oregon, witnessed one of the most bizarre public events in modern history a failed attempt to dispose of a dead whale with dynamite.
What followed became legendary: a rain of flying blubber that left the town covered in greasy whale remains.
The incident began when an 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore on the Oregon coast. Too massive to bury and impossible to move, local authorities debated what to do.
The Oregon Highway Division, which oversaw the beaches at the time, decided the best solution was to blow it up, believing seagulls and crabs would clean up the remaining pieces.
On November 12, 1970, engineers packed half a ton of dynamite beneath the carcass. Hundreds of curious spectators gathered nearby, expecting a quick and tidy cleanup.
Instead, when the dynamite detonated, the explosion launched massive chunks of whale blubber hundreds of feet into the air.
The spectacle quickly turned disastrous. Pieces of meat and fat rained down over a wide area, crushing a car nearly a quarter mile away and coating onlookers in foul-smelling debris.
Instead of scattering small fragments for scavengers, much of the whale remained still lying in a mangled heap.
 
Kern Dog said:
Hygiene in the Old West was very poor due to limited access to clean water, lack of modern plumbing, and poverty. Bathing was an arduous task, often done in rivers or horse troughs, and frequently only happened once a week or less. Soap was not a priority, which was good because it was also not common. Deodorant? What's that? Body odor was often seen as a fact of life, as some believed being too clean was unhealthy. Sanitary napkins? No. Usually old cotton sheets or bits of old clothing, worn for days, sometimes washed and reused. Women did tend to focus on hygiene a bit more than men, and were seen as generally cleaner than men, but don't think for a minute that they were were nice to smell compared to what they were years later when hygiene improved....
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Are you trying to put me off my breakfast ??? :rofl:
 
Kern Dog said:
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In November 1970, residents of Florence, Oregon, witnessed one of the most bizarre public events in modern history a failed attempt to dispose of a dead whale with dynamite.
What followed became legendary: a rain of flying blubber that left the town covered in greasy whale remains.
The incident began when an 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore on the Oregon coast. Too massive to bury and impossible to move, local authorities debated what to do.
The Oregon Highway Division, which oversaw the beaches at the time, decided the best solution was to blow it up, believing seagulls and crabs would clean up the remaining pieces.
On November 12, 1970, engineers packed half a ton of dynamite beneath the carcass. Hundreds of curious spectators gathered nearby, expecting a quick and tidy cleanup.
Instead, when the dynamite detonated, the explosion launched massive chunks of whale blubber hundreds of feet into the air.
The spectacle quickly turned disastrous. Pieces of meat and fat rained down over a wide area, crushing a car nearly a quarter mile away and coating onlookers in foul-smelling debris.
Instead of scattering small fragments for scavengers, much of the whale remained still lying in a mangled heap.
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True story ....



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