Friday Factoids - 8 Feb 2008

Date February 8, 2008

Another week of Friday Factoids:

FACT: The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

FACT: The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

FACT: There are only four words in the English language which end in “- dous“: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

FACT: There are more chickens than people in the world

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One Response to “Friday Factoids - 8 Feb 2008”

  1. The chickens are taking over… and other nuggets of intelligence. | no.stupid.answers said:

    February 10th, 2008 at 5:40 am

    [...] of allscan.org’s Friday Factoids this week: There are more chickens than people in the world. I guess [...]

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