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Fact: The number four and, to a lesser extent, the number seven are considered unlucky in Japanese because they sound similar to the word for death and dying.
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Re: Post a Random Fact! (Not Opinion or Usless Fact)
Fact: South Korea's defence budget is currently larger than North Korea's entire GDP.






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Fact: People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left.
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Fact: Honolulu has the fourth-most high rises of any U.S. City, behind only New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.






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Fact: There is a protein named Sonic hedgehog and one of its inhibitors is named Robotnikinin
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Re: Post a Random Fact! (Not Opinion or Usless Fact)
Fact: A lot of these facts are, in fact, useless facts.
Stevenson's Vocabulary Word of the Week:
Foment: (verb) To excite or arouse, i.e. 2014's Week of Randomness hopes to foment some activity on the forums.
Stevenson's Latin Phrase of the Week:
Brutum Fulmen: (senseless thunderbolt) This phrase, coined by Pliny the elder, is used to refer to an empty threat.






Foment: (verb) To excite or arouse, i.e. 2014's Week of Randomness hopes to foment some activity on the forums.
Stevenson's Latin Phrase of the Week:
Brutum Fulmen: (senseless thunderbolt) This phrase, coined by Pliny the elder, is used to refer to an empty threat.






Re: Post a Random Fact! (Not Opinion or Usless Fact)
Fact: The reason why the Greeks call themselves Hellenic is because the hero Hellen is the progenitor of all Greeks.

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Fact: french fries did not originate from France, but from the French-speaking part of Belgium.






