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05/19/26 Grif.Net – More Factoids for Tuesday

05/19/26 Grif.Net – More Factoids for Tuesday

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on Ju=
ly 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson.

Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added =
until 5 years later.

 

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII=
fighter pilots in the Pacific.

When armi=
ng their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts me=
asured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilot=
s fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

 

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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

 

While the Wr=
ight Brothers are famous as a pair, they actually only flew together once. =
They promised their father they’d always fly separately.

 

In WWII Brit=
ish soldiers had to make do with only three squares of toilet paper per day=
=2E

 

Parts of the Great Wall of China were made with sticky rice.

 

Ninety pe=
rcent of the world’s population lives above the equator.

 

Finland has =
more saunas than cars.

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Dr. Bob Grif=
fin
“Abhorring all my sin, adoring only Him”

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