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FACT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVE
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius

SEP 2018


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DATE FACT OF THE DAY
9/1/18      Radioactive dust from the Chernobyl disaster reached across northern and western Europe and even as far as the eastern United States. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/2/18      Avocados have more protein than any other fruit. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/3/18      In 10th-century Cordoba, an Umayyad (Islamic dynasty) city in Spain with over 70 libraries, the palace library alone had over 60,000 volumes, all written by hand. At the time, the best Latin library in Europe had only 600 parchment books. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/4/18      The Sequoia tree is named in honor of the Cherokee leader Sequoyah, who helped his people develop an alphabet. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/5/18      Wolves were once the most widely distributed land predator the world has ever seen. The only places they didn't thrive were in the true desert and rainforests. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/6/18      While pizza in some form has been baked since antiquity, the first "official" pizzeria opened in Naples around 1830. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/7/18      John Lennon was dyslexic and legally blind. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/8/18      Historically, guinea pigs have played a large role in the medicine in South America. Even in the Andes today (where Western medicine is either unavailable or distrusted), the guinea pig is believed to cure a number of illness, including arthritis and jaundice. Treatments include rubbing the guinea pig on the affected areas. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/9/18      Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn found that a vegan diet changed more than 500 genes in just 3 months. It activated genes that prevented disease and deactivated genes that caused various cancers and other illnesses. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/10/18      Women are more likely to be right-handed than men by about 4 percentage points. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/11/18      The average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/12/18      Child safety seat manufacturers have begun to make bigger models after a recent study showed that over 250,000 U.S. children age 6 and under are too fat to use the standard models. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/13/18      The national fruit of India is the mango. The national bird is the peacock, which was initially bred for food. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/14/18      A medical survey found that professional soccer players sustained approximately 1.5 injuries per player per year. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/15/18      "A Chernobyl necklace" is the horizontal scar left on the base of the neck after surgery to remove cancer on the thyroid. It is so named because the rate of thyroid cancer increased after the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and Poland. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/16/18      In 2005, a typing error caused Mizuho Securities Co. to lose at least $225 million on a stock trade in Japan. The company accidentally sold 610,000 shares at 1 yen (less than a penny) when it actually intended to sell 1 share at 610,000 yen (or $5,041). - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/17/18      America's gun homicide rate is over 25 times that of other industrialized nations. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/18/18      American law enforcement agents only solve around 21% of all reported crime. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/19/18      A mysterious, new "mad snake disease" causes captive pythons and boas to tie themselves in knots. Other symptoms include "stargazing," which is when snakes stare upwards for long periods of time. Snake experts believe a rodent virus causes the fatal disease. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/20/18      Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned for about four years on Chile's Islas Juan Fernández, located 364 miles (587 km) west of Valparaiso. After being rescued, he published his story of survival and was said to be the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/21/18      In 2006, almost 60% of adults living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa were women. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/22/18      Some papooses (originally an Algonquian word) were built with sharp, projecting points so that if a papoose fell off while the mother was riding a horse, the points would stick in the ground and protect the baby. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/23/18      Hitler plotted to kill Sir Winston Churchill with exploding chocolate. Hitler's bomb makers covered explosive devices with a thin layer of dark chocolate and wrapped it in black and gold paper. British agents foiled the plot. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/24/18      Given that the world is about 25,000 miles in circumference and that the average walking rate is 3 miles per hour, it would take a person walking nonstop approximately 347 days to walk around the world. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/25/18      Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) can grow up to 30 inches tall and weigh up to 13 pounds. They are different than other penguins because they have a colorful orange bill, and no other penguin has such a big tail. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/26/18      Female athletes in high school and college tend to suffer from concussions at a higher rate than their male counterparts. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/27/18      Because Venus rotates very slowly on its axis (taking 243 days to make a complete rotation), a day on Venus is longer than its year. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/28/18      At 216th place, Taiwan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea are even lower. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/29/18      Dubbed the "Marathon Man," Belgian runner Stefaan Engels ran the marathon distance every day for a year, totaling 9,569 miles (1,5401 km). - Provided by FactRetriever.com
9/30/18      The first recorded mention of same-sex marriage occurs in Ancient Rome and seems to have occurred without too much debate until Christianity became the official religion. In 1989, Denmark was the first post-Christianity nation to legally recognize same-sex marriage. - Provided by FactRetriever.com


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