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10/03/2023

Friday Facts ✨✅✨

10/03/2023

The Americans leveled an island in the Philippines to build a concrete battleship, Fort Drum. Captured by the Japanese during World War 2, the Americans retook it by pouring gasoline inside and setting it aflame, killing every Japanese soldier inside.

01/03/2023

When the mother of Shaka Zulu (one of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu kingdom) died, he ordered that any woman who became pregnant in the year of mourning was to be executed, anyone not sufficiently sad was to be executed, and calves would have their mothers slaughtered so that they would know his pain.

27/02/2023

In 1999, an Australian named Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes from a heart attack. Later he was revived and lived unscathed. To celebrate his survival, he brought a scratch card and won a $27,000 car. The news team asked him to re-enact the scratch card moment, so he brought another card and won $250,000 jackpot in in it.

25/02/2023

25/02/2023

Hoxne Hoard is the largest treasure hoard in Britain that was accidentally found by a man when he set out with a metal detector to find a hammer he had lost on a farm. It was a 1500-year-old treasure hoard hidden by the Romans. The British government rewarded him with £1.75 million. He found his hammer afterward.

23/02/2023

The Indian Pipe plant (Monotropa uniflora) is one of the rare plants which doesn't contain chlorophyll and thus doesn't photosynthesize, getting all its energy from fungi.

23/02/2023

23/02/2023

Sean Connery was once stopped for speeding by an officer named Sergeant James Bond.