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Election Day in the U.S. is on a Tuesday because, historically, it allowed farmers to travel to the…
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25 Interesting Facts About Taxes
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Taxes. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Taxes 1. Just to show that they are one of the largest taxpayers in the United States, ExxonMobil adds the taxes you pay at the gas pump and its employee payroll taxes to the amount they actually pay in taxes to the government. –…… Read More »
Government Cheese: A Controversial Chapter in US History
In the 1980s, the US government found itself with a massive surplus of cheese due to volatile milk production and federal support for the dairy industry. With over 500 million pounds of processed American cheese stored in warehouses across 35 states, the government struggled to find a use for it. When the public discovered the… Read More »
WTF Fun Fact – Nationalized Hitchhiking
In 2013 the Zimbabwean Government…
unbelievable-facts: Seven years after the People’s Republic of…
unbelievable-facts: Seven years after the People’s Republic of China was established, Mao Zedong allowed people to express their opinions on the way the country was being run in a campaign called the “Hundred Flowers Campaign.” Once this happened, those who said things against the government were then jailed or unheard of since. Source
In 2014, the Indian government employed…
In 2014, the Indian government employed 40 people to impersonate monkeys, to scare off real monkeys causing havoc around the parliament in Delhi. The men made screeching noises similar to those of black-faced langur monkeys, imitating their whoops and barks, to frighten red-faced macaque monkeys The post In 2014, the Indian government employed… appeared first… Read More »