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This weeks Friday Factoids are focusing on the history of lotteries and some interesting facts about some winners.

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Today’s factoids about the United States Congress come to us from the Facts section on Harper’s Magazine’s website.  I must say some of these were extremely surprising to me.

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This weeks Friday Factoids come to us from the National Safety Council’s compilation of injury reports since the 1920s. They have compiled a list of the odds of dying, most recent version is 2004, we’ll cover some of the more colorful and odd ways to die.

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This weeks Friday Factoids will be focused on pet rats and general rat lore.

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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