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11. There is a stained glass window with Hitler and Mussolini in a church of my old hometown. They are laughing while Jesus gets beaten with sticks.
12. OJ Simpson is currently in jail. In September 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with numerous felonies, including armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to 33 years imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He is serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada.
13. Many people overdose on opioids after leaving a detox center and try to use the same amount they did before but with an altered tolerance, and they OD. But it’s not only the length of time without that alters tolerance. Researchers have some data on location priming and have found that your brain starts to boost tolerance when it sees a trigger of your use. If you always use in the bathroom of your home, when you enter your bathroom, your brain starts to ramp up your tolerance in preparation for the substance intake. Lots of people accidentally overdose when they try the drug in a new location. – Source
14. Bass frequencies require more power than high frequencies to travel the same distance, although because of this bass frequencies will move through textures and high frequencies will reflect. That’s why you can hear the subs from festivals kilometers away.
15. There is a town in Newfoundland called Dildo, and it is located between Spread Eagle and Hearts Desire.
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16. Reykjavik, Iceland is the northernmost capital city. You’d think it’d be the coldest capital also, but Mongolia’s Ulan Bator is the coldest capital in the world.
17. The title Pontifex Maximus (Greatest Bridge-Builder) dates back to early Ancient Rome when the office was literally in charge of bridges over the Tiber. As time went on it turned into a pagan religious position, and denoted ‘bridge-building’ between the mortal world and the divine. Eventually, Roman Emperors started taking on the title as well, among many other honorifics, because they liked being the head honchos of everything. Then sometime after Christianity took hold the Bishop of Rome got to hold the title of the greatest-bridge builder, and that’s why today the pope is called Pontifex Maximus.
18. The way zip codes are assigned in the USA. The first 3 digits represent the region, going east to west starting with New England and ending with Alaska. With larger cities having their own 3 digits (e.g. any 900XX zip code is in Los Angeles). In rural or suburban areas, the last two digits are the alphabetical order of the city name, for example, the north Dallas suburbs go from 75001 (Addison) to 75098 (Wylie).
19. Italy has an embassy in Rome.
20. In Germany at least you can pay to have low-pressure areas (cyclones if the internet is to be trusted) or high-pressure areas (anticyclones) named after you/your company/whatever.
#16. Isn’t Longyearbyen, Svalbard the most northern/coldest capital?
Svalbard is not a proper country
#6 – And the horseshoe crabs are not harmed in the process. They are bled and then returned to a habitat a good distance away from the collection site to avoid rebleeding the same animal.