The new trivia thread.
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Name the song that references Jimmy Iovine, record producer, chairman of Geffen A&M, in the lyrics.
He is George Willig, a mountain climber who scaled tower-2(110 stories) of World Trade Centre in 1977,Who is this dude? what is his claim to fame?
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After Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed, his pet hippos escaped into the wild. Now Colombia has a hippo problem.
Obviously, hippos are a non-native species in Colombia, so they do not belong in the wilderness there. Regardless, it turns out that the rainforest in Colombia is pretty much the ideal habitat for the African native, with its warm climate, abundant vegetation, and no natural predators.
When notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar built his multimillion dollar estate in 1981, he had swimming pools, a bull ring, and an air strip installed. He also created his own private zoo stocked with hippos, rhinos, giraffes, and kangaroos. Since Escobar’s assassination, his four hippos have populated the grounds of his former estate. There’s at least 28 now, a number that could easily climb to 100 in a decade.
Probably a higher number of times than we think, i'll say.......20?How many times a day does the average person flatulate?
Whale oil, since it does not solidify at extremely low temps, lol, I read this fact the other day while looking up new trivia questions!
This is a picture of a man that worked for a circus at the turn of the 20th. century.......................what was his claim to fame?
hmmm, gonna say yes, must be some small islands some where that it is not worth claiming.
Basketball. If there's a technical foul assessed to the team that scored first, the clock would be stopped, and both teams would score at the same time.
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An area between Egypt and Sudan has not been claimed by any country.
Usually when land is not part of a country is a disputed territory. In the case of Bir Tawil, it’s the opposite: no one wants it. Neither Egypt nor Sudan claim it. Since this is the only piece of land outside of Antarctica that no country claims, you could say that Bir Tawil is the most unwanted territory on Earth.
But why do both Egypt and Sudan refuse to claim Bir Tawil? Sure it’s small, but it’s land! (Take a look at the picture. Who wouldn't want that?) What kind of a country refuses to claim land? The answer lies in the nearby territory, the Hala’ib triangle. The Hala’ib triangle is another territory between Egypt and Sudan, but it’s ten times as big as Bir Tawil. Both territories are the result of the difference between two the historical boundaries between the two countries. The boundary established in 1899 leaves the Hala’ib triangle with Egypt and Bir Tawil with Sudan. The boundary established in 1902 does the reverse. Both countries claim the Hala’ib triangle, so each of them obviously prefers the boundary that gives it to them, and simultaneously gives Bir Tawil to the other country. Claiming Bir Tawil would be the same as claiming that you had no authority over the much larger Hala’ib triangle.
I believe there are quite a few countries that lay claim to areas of Antartica for the oil and minerals that are believe to be under the ice.
