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data/data/facts/music.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "\"Hang on Sloopy\" is the official rock song of Ohio."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "\"Home on the Range\" is the state song for Kansas."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "\"Mr. Mojo Risin\" is an anagram for Jim Morrison."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "\"Video Killed the Radio Star\" was the very first video ever played on MTV."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "3-Day advance purchase tickets for the first Woodstock (1969), were $18.00. The price at the gate, $24."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Aerosmith's \"Dude Looks Like a Lady\" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Beethoven was totally deaf when he composed his Ninth Symphony."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Bill Haley and the Comets, one of rock and roll's pioneer groups actually began their career's as Bill Haley's Saddle Pals - a country music act."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Cher's last name was \"Sarkissian.\" She changed it because no one could pronounce it."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Coldplay were the first artist to sell a Million digital albums in America."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Duran Duran got their name from a character in the film Barbarella."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Elvis Presley had a reading chair in his bathroom."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was Aron."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Elvis' hair color was originally blonde. He dyed it black because he was a big fan of Roy Orbison."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "If you played all of the Beatles' singles and albums that came out between 1962 and 1970 back to back, it would only last for 10 hours and 33 minutes."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Ignace Paderewski, one of the greatest concert pianists of all time, was also premier of Poland."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "In the band KISS, Gene Simmons was \"The Demon\", Paul Stanley was \"Star Child\", Ace Frehley was \"Space Man\", and Peter Criss was \"The Cat."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Jim Morrison (of the 60's rock group The Doors) was the first rock star to be arrested on stage."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "John Lennon named his band the Beatles after Buddy Holly's 'Crickets.'"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Led Zeppelin have had 8 consecutive number one albums but never released any singles."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Longest title without brackets in the UK charts - The Freshies' 1981 release \"I'm In Love With The Girl On A Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk\" (60 letters) peaked at number 54!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Shannon Hoon, the now-dead lead singer of the group Blind Melon was a back-up singer for Guns N' Roses on their Use Your Illusion 1 CD."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Shortest number 1 title in the UK charts is \"If\" by Telly Savalas (no. 1, Feb 1975)."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The 80s song \"Rosanna\" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The Beatles featured two left handed members, Paul, whom everyone saw holding his Hoffner bass left handed, and Ringo, whose left handedness is at least partially to blame for his 'original' drumming style."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The Beatles movie Help was dedicated to Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The Beatles played the Las Vegas Convention Center in 1964. Some 8,500 fans paid just $4 each for tickets."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The Beatles song \"Dear Prudence\" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The Beatles song \"Martha My Dear\" was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The best-selling album of all time is Thriller by Michael Jackson (USA), with global sales of over 51 million copies to date since 1982. The success of the album also helped Jackson win a record eight Grammy Awards in 1984."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was \"Rock the Casbah\" by the Clash."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The first video ever played on MTV Europe was \"Money For Nothing\" by Dire Straits."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The longest title for a record in the UK charts - The Face's / Rod Stewart's 1974 no. 12 hit \"You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)\" has 115 letters (punctuations don't count!)."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red home strip."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The oldest piano still in existence was built in 1720."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "The real name of the Looney Tunes music is \"The Merry-Go-Round Broken Down.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "There are 88 keys on a piano – 52 white and 36 black."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "Wannabe by the Spice Girls is the largest selling single by female artists in the UK. (1.2 Million)"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "When the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, Jimmy Page was left to honor the band's commitments, performing as The New Yardbirds. The group eventually evolved into Led Zeppelin."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "music",
+    "fact": "ZZ Top consists of 3 band members, 2 of which have long beards whilst the clean shaven member of the band is actually named Frank Beard."
+  }
+]

data/data/facts/plants.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "A cucumber is 96 percent water."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "A redwood's roots are only about 5 or 6 feet deep and spread out over about an acre"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Almonds are a member of the peach family"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "An orange tree may bear oranges for more than 100 years. The famous “Constable Tree,” an orange tree brought to France in 1421, lived and bore fruit for 473 years."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Bamboo (the world's tallest grass) can grow up to 90 cm in a day."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Bamboo is not a tree. It is a wood grass."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Bananas grow on a tropical plant that is not a tree -it has no trunk. Bananas are gigantic herbs that spring from underground stems. What appears to be the trunk is a false stem formed by tightly wrapped leaf sheaths. With stalks 25 feet high, they’re the largest plant on earth without a woody stem."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Cabbage is 91 percent water."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Cleopatra used pomegranate seeds for lipstick."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Cork comes from the bark of trees. Specifically, it is harvested from the cork tree, which takes more than ten years to produce one layer of cork."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "During midsummer the radical leaves of the compass plants invariably point precisely north and south."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Eighty percent of the world's rose species come from Asia."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Every year, plants make and store ten times the amount of energy that people use."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Hydrangeas produce pink and white flowers in alkaline soil and blue ones in acidic soil."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "If someone tells you you smell like flowers, it may not be a compliment if they are refering to the rafflesia flower. This flower smells like rotten meat!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "In one day a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "It takes 4,000 crocuses to produce a single ounce of Saffron."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Lettuce is the world's most popular green."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Life preservers and the linings of aviators' jackets used during World War II were made from fiber found in milkweed pods."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Oak trees are struck by lightning more often than any other tree. This, it has been theorized, is one reason that the ancient Greeks considered oak trees sacred to Zeus, God of thunder and lightning."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are 50 years of age or older."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "One tree can provide enough oxygen for 2 people to live off of for their whole lives."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Poison Oak and Poison Ivy are members of the cashew family."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Poison oak is not oak; poison ivy is not ivy. Both are members of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae)."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Seedless oranges were not grown in the United States until 1871. The first ones came from Brazil and were planted in California."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Seeds from a wild flower, the Artic Lupine, found in Alaska, have grown in the lab after being frozen in the ground for 10,000 years."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Spanish moss is a close relative of the pineapple."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Technically speaking, lemons are berries."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park, California, is the largest tree in the world. It weighs more than 6000 tons."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The Japanese have a special method for growing superb melons. They plant a seed, allow it to sprout and form buds, then pick all the buds but one. This one bud is allowed to mature into a full fruit. In this way a single fruit receives all the nutrients originally meant for the whole plant. The result is a remarkably succulent melon."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The Orchid is named after the male genitalia. Its botanical family name Orchidaceae, means “testicles” in Greek and may derive from an early notion that the orchid possessed aphrodisiac qualities."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The angle between the main branches of a tree and its trunk remains constant in each species—and this same angle is found between the principal vein of the tree's leaves and all its subsidiary branching veins."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man. Further, the banana is not a tree, it is a herb, the largest known of all plants without a woody stem or solid trunk."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forests take place inside the trees."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The bristle-cone pine, which grows in the deserts of Nevada and California, is the oldest living species in the United States. Some are believed to be 4600 years old and can live to be 5500 years old."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The cucumber is not a vegetable; botanically, it is a fruit, so are the eggplant, the pumpkin, the squash, the tomato, the gherkin, and the okra. Rhubarb, however, is botanically a vegetable, not a fruit."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The flower of the calla lily (Amorphophallus titanum) is 8 feet high and 12 feet wide. It is grown in Sumatra."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The growth rate of some bamboo plants can reach three feet (91.44 cm) per day."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The largest flower in the world, the Rufflesia, grows to over 10 feet (3 m) in diameter."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood Plasma."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The nasturtium derives its name from the Latin nasus (“nose”) tortum (“to twist”). The flower's smell is so powerful that to inhale it was considered tantamount to having one's nose tweaked."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The oldest known vegetable is the pea, used by the Chinese in 2,000 B.C."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The onion is a lily, botanically."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The partridge berry is a botanical Siamese twin. Each berry develops from 2 flowers."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The poinsettia flower is named after a nineteenth-century ambassador to Mexico, Joel R. Poinsett, who first brought the poinsettia plant to America."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The poisonous copperhead smells like fresh cut cucumbers."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The rings of a tree are always farther apart on the tree's southern side. Woodsmen often read tree rings to find the compass points."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The sequoias and redwoods of the American West Coast are not the oldest living trees in the world. The honor belongs to the macrozamia trees of Australia, which lives 5,000 to 7,000 years and, some claim, may even reach 15,000 years."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same -- they are orthotetrachidecahedrons."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The smallest mushroom's name is \"Hop-low.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "The trunk of the African baobab tree is sometimes as wide as the tree it is high. The tree is pollinated by bats, and the blossoms open only in moonlight."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "There are an estimated 285,000 species of flowering plants on Earth compared to 148,000 for all other plants. Flowering plants are very important because they provide food for herbivores - plant-eating animals - and for humans."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Tomatoes are really fruits, not vegetables."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Trees do not have life expectancies like humans. Some in California are believed to be four-thousand years old or more. How can trees live so long? The simple answer is that they're not as complex as people. So, as long as conditions are right, trees continue to live and grow, until something interrupts it."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Trees, not whales, are the largest living organisms on Earth today."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "Two thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "plants",
+    "fact": "When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit."
+  }
+]