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Awesome! Thanks for the opportunity!

#3692

Did you know that New York city was once 80% Irishmen? :D

(Is there a limit to how many entries I can send in?)

#8013- Fifty percent of the United States population lives within a 500-mile radius of Columbus, Ohio- Ohio born and raised:-)

Love these history things. So cool learning new facts. :-) thanks

Neat idea, Cheers! I can't wait to see what gets posted!

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Since I think it is safe to say we all love horses, I will tell a few facts about an U.S. historical war hero, SSgt Reckless. Reckless was a chestnut Korean mare acquired by the U.S. during the Korean War with the purpose of carrying ammunition. She did her job well, and boosted morale in camp with her antics. On one day during the Battle of Outpost Vegas she carried close to five tons of ammo up a mountain, and carried wounded back down, mostly without a handler. It was a total of around thirty five miles, and she was wounded twice. She was awarded two Purple Hearts, a U.S. military award for injury or death during action. Reckless was retired to Camp Pendleton where she was promoted to Staff Sergeant. When she died, she was buried with full military honors. If you have RideTV, the show This Old Horse has an episode about Reckless coming on next Thursday at 6 a.m., I believe.

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Andrew Jackson taught his parrot how to curse to the extent that the parrot had to be removed from the president's funeral because it was cursing too much.

Oh! This isn't about my country, but...
#3692 During a Spanish war, supplies were airdropped to troops, like they should be--not with expensive parachutes, but strapped to turkeys!

Oh this is exciting. You are incredible Cheers.

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Hidden took my fact! haha I thought that was interesting the kid only got a B- and its our current flag and has been for what 50 years?

Hmmm what else.

Theres a tree in Georgia that is the legal owner of itself.

Montana has three times as many cows as they do people..

If you cut down a cactus in Arizona you could be sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Oh! And the grizzly bear is californias official state animal but there hasnt been any seen there since 1922..

Haha thats awesome Rose.

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I decided to do a little internet digging to see what I could find for Australia and I saw something that said bars are required to stable, water and feed the horses of their patrons I dont know if its just for one specific area it didnt say but I thought it was interesting lol.


And then I continued to look around and searched for some in Canada and found out that its illegal to kill a sick person by frightening them.. haha

@Cheers I will provide 3 15 stall barns for you to distribute as you please. Just send me a PM when you know who they should go to. :D \:D/

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Thankyou Cheers
In Australia it is illegal for children to purchase cigarettes but they are not prohibited from smoking them,

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It is the 6th largest country in the world, occupying an entire continent of some 7.6 million square kilometres.

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Don't startle the horses
In Australia {not sure what state}
It is actually an offence not to "give way" to "restive" horses, which means those animals refusing to move, or difficult to control on the road.

If the rider of a horse gives a signal, by raising a hand and pointing to the horse, the driver must steer his vehicle as far to the left side of the road as possible, turn off the engine and not move again until the horse is far enough away not to be aggravated.

What the hell. United States are the country with the most weird laws in this world. Sending rocket signals every mile and taking car apart in case of seeing horses made my day xD

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Also here's a few dumb nebraskan laws

1. Drivers on mountains should drive with caution near the right hand edge of the highway. And keep the motor vehicle in complete control....there are no mountains here

2. Sneezing and burping is illegal in church

3. And, it is illegal for a man to run around with a shaved chest

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And having sharp objects when going out the streets is illegal, but this law doesn't say anything about choppers or kitchen knives.
So, in Poland you mustn't leave home with, at example, walking stick with hidden blade, but if you hold a chopper - everything is OK.

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In New York City, many of our parks used to be cemeteries. Spooky.

I think it's just insane, not spooky.

these are great y'all! I am also particularly liking that you have to take your car apart and hide it if a skittish team of horses is heading towards you!

And I think the rule about giving way to "restive" horses should still be on the books! I've seen some really close calls on the roads in Aus and the US with really rude drivers and young riders! Scary!

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Horses Played their Part in Independence Day
From George Washington to Paul Revere, horses helped carry our nation to freedom.
Fourth of July holiday is all about patriotism and fireworks. But horses played a vital role in America’s independence and they shouldn’t be left out of the celebration. Three horses that were prominent in history were the two horses ridden by General George Washington, and the horse that Paul Revere galloped through the streets of Boston proclaiming the arrival of British troops.
Although artistic images typically portray George Washington astride his silvery white horse Blueskin, he actually favored his other horse, Old Nelson, because the chestnut was much more reliable in the heat of battle. Old Nelson was a living example of being “bombproof” while Blueskin was more fractious. Unfortunately, the archetypal image of the good guy riding to victory aboard a white horse has pushed the plain-coated Old Nelson into the background. Fortunately, both horses survived the Revolutionary War and lived out a peaceful retirement at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate.
Paul Revere didn’t actually own the horse he rode on his famous ride. He worked as a courier, and began his journey in a rowboat that carried him across the Charles River. It would’ve been difficult to bring along his horse. Instead, he borrowed a horse from a local merchant who sympathized with the patriots. Later, historical documents would suggest that the horse’s name was Brown Beauty, although Revere only referred to his mount as “a very good horse.” That very good horse, however, was never returned to his owner. Revere and his two fellow couriers were captured and held for a short time by the British, and an officer confiscated the horse Revere was riding.
George Washington and Paul Revere were two heroes of the American Revolutionary War. But they couldn’t have made it into our history books without a horse.

Note I found this on the horse channel

Bahaha Pine!

In Pennsylvania we've got some seriously...interesting town names.

Intercourse, Virginville, Pillow, Climax, Bird In Hand, Eighty Four, Hooker, Panic (who would want to live in a town named panic?), Mars, Weedville, Middlesex, Turkey Foot, Experiment, Normalville, and Slippery Rock just to name handful lol

@MoonAcre, we have an Intercourse and Climax in Alabama too! (That sounds so wrong) The county I grew up in had two communities that went by the names of Screamer and Thrash'er Bottom. (This is getting worse and worse)
We also have some more unique ones including Slapout, Smuteye, Burnt Corn, Lick Skillet, Coal Fire, Scratch Ankle, Possum Trot, Scarce Grease, Boar Tush, The Bottle (annexed now) and Normal. Where I currently live LaFayette, sounds totally normal until you learn that it is pronounced - around here - as Luh-fet!

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I'm from the UK - here are some fun facts :)

- In 1945 a flock of birds landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and delayed time by 5 minutes!
- The Queen has legal ownership of all the whales and dolphins in UK waters
- It is illegal to handle Salmon in suspicious circumstances (not entirely sure what constitutes suspicious circumstances... but there you go!)
- Iceland (who beat England in the Euros only days ago) have a population smaller than the city of Nottingham... and their manager is a part-time dentist... (Embarrassing....... O.o)
- It is illegal to sing Happy Birthday in public (since the song is under copy right)!

Fun fact about Germans (from my Vet course) - The average German eats 5kg of fermented sausage a year (no idea why we needed to know that for exams, but we did!)

I love all these fun facts!

Some interesting Aussie town names
Chinaman's Knob - State: VIC
Name of a hill in Victoria
Cock Wash - State: SA
There's also a creek of the same name...
Cockburn - State: WA pronounced Coe burn
Named in honor of Vice Admiral Sir George Cockburn.
Dunedoo - State: NSW
Prononced 'dunny-doo', in Aus lingo a dunny is a toilet!
Woop Woop, Western Australia

Colloquially, Woop Woop means the middle of nowhere. It’s defined as "a remote and supposedly backward rural town or district."

Woop Woop was a mill town southeast of Perth that came into existence in 1925, before being abandoned and sold for scrap in 1984.

So now it really is in the middle of nowhere.
If you’re from these towns and still smarting don’t be, at least yours is easily pronounceable unlike the Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, which has the longest international town name.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll is the shortened version of the name. The full name of the town is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch which clocks in at 58 letters. The name means: [St.] Mary's Church (Llanfair) [in] the hollow (pwll) of the white hazel (gwyngyll) near (goger) the rapid whirlpool (y chwyrndrobwll) [and] the church of [St.] Tysilio (llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo goch).
In Australia that honour goes to Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya, in South Australia and means where the devil urinates.

thats cool Sky I live in Cooloongup lol . Gotta love Aussie names

This has turned into a very fun and informative thread lol