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- checksums.yaml +4 -4
- data/.rspec +2 -0
- data/.travis.yml +1 -0
- data/CHANGELOG.md +7 -0
- data/README.md +4 -1
- data/Rakefile +5 -0
- data/data/facts/animal_kingdom.json +5598 -0
- data/data/facts/cartoon.json +26 -0
- data/data/facts/customs.json +370 -0
- data/data/facts/earth.json +206 -0
- data/data/facts/expressions.json +370 -0
- data/data/facts/flags.json +106 -0
- data/data/facts/food.json +138 -0
- data/data/facts/grammar.json +498 -0
- data/data/facts/history.json +146 -0
- data/data/facts/human_anatomy.json +994 -0
- data/data/facts/inventions.json +370 -0
- data/data/facts/legal.json +430 -0
- data/data/facts/literature.json +170 -0
- data/data/facts/math.json +50 -0
- data/data/facts/monetary.json +110 -0
- data/data/facts/movies.json +298 -0
- data/data/facts/music.json +206 -0
- data/data/facts/plants.json +270 -0
- data/data/facts/records.json +390 -0
- data/data/facts/religion.json +302 -0
- data/data/facts/space.json +258 -0
- data/data/facts/sports.json +234 -0
- data/data/facts/statistics.json +438 -0
- data/data/facts/trivia.json +522 -0
- data/data/facts/tv.json +198 -0
- data/data/sources.json +27 -0
- data/lib/random_facts.rb +34 -11
- data/lib/random_facts/version.rb +1 -1
- data/random_facts.gemspec +3 -1
- data/spec/lib/random_facts_spec.rb +66 -0
- data/spec/spec_helper.rb +80 -0
- metadata +38 -7
- data/data/facts.json +0 -6463
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"fact": "A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not."
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"fact": "Although the combination of chili peppers and oregano for seasoning has been traced to the ancient Aztecs, the present blend is said to be the invention of early Texans. Chili powder today is typically a blend of dried chilies, garlic powder, red peppers, oregano, and cumin."
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"fact": "Americans eat 18 acres of pizza a day."
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"fact": "Americans eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety in the United States is the Red Delicious."
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"fact": "An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet."
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"fact": "An average American will eat 350 cows, 310 hogs, and 225 lambs in a lifetime."
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"fact": "An average dinner eaten by King Louis XIV of France; four plates of soup, a whole pheasant, a whole partridge, two slices of ham, a salad, mutton with garlic, pastry, fruit, and hardboiled eggs. At his death it was discovered that the King's stomach was twice the size of a normal stomach."
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"fact": "An ear of corn almost always has an even number of rows (twelve, fourteen, or sixteen)."
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"fact": "An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows. A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels. 100 bushels of corn produces approximately 7,280,000 kernels. Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica."
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"fact": "Argentinians eat more meat than any other nation in the world—an average of 10 ounces per person per day."
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"fact": "At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones."
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"fact": "Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle"
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"fact": "Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon."
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"fact": "Black-eyed peas are not peas. They are beans."
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"fact": "Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in hopes that it would reduce masturbation."
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"fact": "Haggis, a traditional Scottish dish, is made from lungs, heart, and liver of a sheep, chopped with onions, seasonings, suet, and oatmeal, and then boiled in a bag made from the sheep's stomach."
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"fact": "Herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world."
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"fact": "Honey does not spoil."
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"fact": "Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible."
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"fact": "Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil."
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"fact": "Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say?"
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"fact": "Ice cream was originally made without sugar and eggs."
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"fact": "If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom."
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"fact": "In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn."
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"fact": "Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger, the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride."
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"fact": "Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine"
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"fact": "Pearls melt in vinegar."
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"fact": "Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars."
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"fact": "Some people believe brown eggs are richer than white eggs and more nutritious. There really isn’t correlation of richness of the egg to the color of the shell. Analysis shows eggs are practically the same in chemical composition regardless of the color of the shell and there is no difference in the food or nutrient content of varying shades of the color of egg shells."
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"fact": "The pineapple is a berry."
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"fact": "There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France."
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"fact": "\"A quick sly fox jumped over the lazy brown dog\" has every letter in the alphabet. So does \"The five boxing wizards jump quickly.\""
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"fact": "\"ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC\" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for \"Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.\""
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"fact": "\"Angry\" and \"hungry\" are the only words in the English language ending in \"-gry\" (although gry is a word, it does not *end* in -gry, since a suffix requires the word before it to be a word)"
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"fact": "\"Bookkeeper\" and \"bookkeeping\" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters."
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"fact": "\"Floccinaucinihilipilification\" which means \"the act of estimating as worthless\" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long."
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"fact": "The abbrevation \"PDX\" (Portland International Airport) is derived from \"P\" standing for Portland and \"DX\" meaning long distance or wide reaching."
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"fact": "The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's \"Its A Wonderful Life\"."
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"fact": "The combination \"ough\" can be pronounced in ten different ways. The following sentence contains them all: \"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman swam through the lough at Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.\""
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"fact": "The following capital letters are the same when viewed upside down: H, I, N, O, S, X, Z"
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"fact": "The heraldic term \"gules\", meaning red, comes from the French word \"gueules,\" meaning a throat."
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"fact": "The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is 'Quartzy'. This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink double-word squares with the Q and the Y on those squares. 'Bezique' and 'Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go."
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"fact": "The holiday Boxing day was originally celebrated in England,for the servants to the rich people. After chrismas,the servants “boxed up” all the left-overs from the rich people and bring them home."
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"fact": "The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words."
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"fact": "The letter \"I\" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's \"Macbeth.\""
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"fact": "The letter B took its present form from a symbol used by Egyptian hieroglyphics to represent a house. Its original Egyptian form looked very much like its modern one."
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"fact": "The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements."
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"fact": "The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three."
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"fact": "The letter Y was invented by Palamedes, one of the heroes of the Trojan War. He made its shape from the flight formation of cranes which he observed"
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"fact": "The letter Z is only used in words more that five letters when two vowels are present."
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"fact": "The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia a Latin term meaning \"for example.\""
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"fact": "The letters “M.G.” on the British sportscar actually stand for “Morris Garage.”"
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"fact": "The longest English word that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'"
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"fact": "The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hours, set by Violet Gibson Burns."
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"fact": "The longest word in the English language is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"
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"fact": "The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, the plural form."
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"fact": "The most common letters in English are R S T L N E."
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"fact": "The naval rank of \"Admiral\" is derived from the Arabic phrase \"amir al bahr,\" which means \"lord of the sea\"."
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"fact": "The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000."
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"fact": "The oldest word in the English language is \"town.\""
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"fact": "The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'."
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"fact": "The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable."
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"fact": "The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is\"uncopyrightable\"."
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"fact": "The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is P."
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"fact": "The second longest word in the English language is \"antidisestablishmenterianism\"."
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"fact": "The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.' uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)"
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"fact": "The shortest 5 syllable word in the english language is ideology."
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"fact": "The slash character is called a virgule, or solidus. A URL uses slash characters, not back slash characters."
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"fact": "The verb \"cleave\" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate."
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"fact": "The word \"moose\" was originally Algonquin."
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"fact": "The word \"queue\" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed."
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"fact": "The word \"robot\" was created by Karel Capek. It came from Czech/Slovak \"robotovat,\" which means to work very hard."
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"fact": "The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'"
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"fact": "The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France."
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"fact": "The word electricity comes from the Greek word ELECTRON, for amber"
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"fact": "The word monsoon is derived from the Arabic word mausim, meaning \"season.\" It was first used by Arab sailors to describe the seasonal winds that blow across the Arabian Sea."
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"fact": "The word photography is derived from two Greek words for \"writing\" and \"light.\""
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"fact": "The word skeleton comes from the Ancient Greek word for dry"
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"fact": "The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root."
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"fact": "The youngest letters in the English language are \"j,\" \"v\" and \"w.\""
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"fact": "There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma."
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"fact": "There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet: a e i o u h k l m n p w"
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"fact": "There are only four words in the English language which end in \"-dous\": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous."
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"type": "grammar",
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"fact": "There are only three world capitals that begin with the letter \"O\" in English: Ottawa, Canada; Oslo, Norway; and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso."
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"fact": "There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility."
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454
|
+
{
|
|
455
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
456
|
+
"fact": "There is no word that rhymes with orange."
|
|
457
|
+
},
|
|
458
|
+
{
|
|
459
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
460
|
+
"fact": "There is no word that rhymes with purple."
|
|
461
|
+
},
|
|
462
|
+
{
|
|
463
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
464
|
+
"fact": "There was only one code during World War II that was never broken by the enemy and was used by the US Army. Navajo soldiers, called Codetalkers, developed a radio code based on their native language. It was the only way US soldiers on the battlefield could be sure that messages were from there own side and not from Japanese imitators."
|
|
465
|
+
},
|
|
466
|
+
{
|
|
467
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
468
|
+
"fact": "U V W X Y are the symmetric capital letters in the Roman alphabet."
|
|
469
|
+
},
|
|
470
|
+
{
|
|
471
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
472
|
+
"fact": "Underground and Underfund are the only two words in the English language that begin and end with the letters u-n-d."
|
|
473
|
+
},
|
|
474
|
+
{
|
|
475
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
476
|
+
"fact": "What is called a \"French kiss\" in the English speaking world is known as an \"English kiss\" in France."
|
|
477
|
+
},
|
|
478
|
+
{
|
|
479
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
480
|
+
"fact": "When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a \"portmanteau.\""
|
|
481
|
+
},
|
|
482
|
+
{
|
|
483
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
484
|
+
"fact": "You speak about 4,800 words a day."
|
|
485
|
+
},
|
|
486
|
+
{
|
|
487
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
488
|
+
"fact": "i l o t u v w x are the symmetric lower case letters in the Roman alphabet."
|
|
489
|
+
},
|
|
490
|
+
{
|
|
491
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
492
|
+
"fact": "“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”."
|
|
493
|
+
},
|
|
494
|
+
{
|
|
495
|
+
"type": "grammar",
|
|
496
|
+
"fact": "“I”, the first person singular, is capitalized in English – the only language to do so."
|
|
497
|
+
}
|
|
498
|
+
]
|