The Useless Facts Game

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7 out of 10 people believe in life after death,
camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible,
two london writers mistranslated the Bible in 1631, they left the word 'not' out, and the seventh commandment read 'thou shalt commit adultery', this is known as 'the wicked Bible',
over 11,000 people in new mexico have visited the tortilla chip that is supposed to have the face of Christ on it,
John Bunyan, a writer from the 1700, was imprisoned for 12 yrs for preaching,
the longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119, which is 176 verses,
there is a temple in Sri Lanka dedicated to a tooth of the Buddha. It is called the temple of the tooth,
the abbreviation xmas is of greek origin, the word for christ in greek is Xristos,
the Bible was written by over 40 authore over 1500 yrs,
the shroud of turin is the most studied artifact in history,
the world's largest church is in Yamoussoukro,
ukranian people celebrate xmas on jan 7th, the orthodox xmas,
it was believed by ancient hindus that the world was a sphere that rested on the backs of 4 elephants which stood on a turtle,
the biggest religious building is a hindu temple, Angkor Wat, in Cambodia.

 

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a doctor was sued in america by a patient who survived longer than expected,
a rape is reported every 6 minutes in the us,
a surfer was once sued in america because he stole another surfers wave-the case was thrown out as the court was unable to put a price on the suffering of the surfer watching someone else ride his wave,
info collected in a us census must be confidential for 72 yrs,
centuries ago in india, you could get your nose cut off for breaking the law,
David Rice Atchinson was president of america for a day due to a glitch in american law at the time,
Elmo (sesamie street fame) testified in favour of school music education at a house labor, health and human services, education appropriations committee hearing on capitol hill in washington on the 23rd of april 2002,
in france its illegal to kiss someone on railways,
in israel, you are breaking the law by picking your nose on the sabbath,
in Quebec, Canada, margerine must be a different colour than butter,
in singapore you cannot sell or own chewing gum,
in the 1985 boise, idaho mayoral election, there were 4 written votes for mr potato head,
india has a bill of rights for cows,
india is the worlds biggest democracy,
more than half cases i american courts are to do with vehicles,
serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in kansas,
the triangular shaped packaging of toblerones is protected by law.

 

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