Fun Facts for 03 June 2018

Fun Facts for 03 June 2018


Check the closet, and under the bed. Teraphobes suffer from an irrational fear of monsters. 
Beginning in 1928, Volvo is now the world’s Number Two manufacturer of transport trucks. 
Starting in 1923, humans have explored the Milky Way chocolate bar.
8 million shops from Hanoi to Hobart take people’s 323 million VISA cards, Earth’s leading plastic. 
To spot an iceberg, one must have 20/20 ice sight.


Automobile manufacturers need to build cars that last longer than the payments.
The Roman numeral ten is ‘X’, or two Vs—one inverted—making the figure twice five. 
British Columbia is four times larger than The British Isles. 
It's a tossup as to whether Denmark or Sweden will be the world’s first cashless nation.
Loyalty to petrified opinion has never broken a chain nor freed a human soul.  ~Mark Twain


Nine out of every ten Rolls-Royce automobiles built  since 1904 are still roadworthy. 
75% of Guamanians adhere to Roman Catholicism.
As a title of respect, ‘Ms.’ officially entered the lexicon in 1972.
Ontario, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are home to the nation’s 5,000 Amish.
We live in an era where pizza increasingly arrives before police.


Every year, the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship is held in Savonlinna, Finland. 
The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
Hockey pucks have been clocked at speeds of  240 kph.
Stockholm’s Garlic & Shots is garlic-centric eatery, serving everything from garlic booze to garlic-flavoured cheesecake. 
This spot was reserved for a pun about a stone but I decided to skip it. 

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