71 of Our Favorite Facts of 2022
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13. Historians said that Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival in 1919, after the Spanish flu had ravaged much of the world, led to lots of of today festival markincluding occasionally kissing a stranger.
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14. Over the past decade, California has tripled the number of people compared to housing units, pushing its median home price to more than $800,000, more than double the national figure.
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15. Most office building thermostats follow a model developed in the 1960s that, among other factors, takes into account the resting metabolic rate of a 40-year-old man. weight. 154 pounds.
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16. When accepting the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1962, Rita Moreno gave One of the shortest acceptance speeches in Oscar history: “Unbelievable! Oh my God! I leave you with that.
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17. If the stars in the night sky are twinkling, it is a sign of atmospheric turbulence.
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18. The Long Now’s watchA giant mechanical watch is being built inside a 6,000-foot mountain in southern Texas, designed to keep time without human intervention for 10,000 years.
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19. In the history of American prisons, no one has been in solitary confinement longer than three Black men, known as the Angolan Triads, who spent more than four decades in solitary confinement in an English prison. -Gola in Louisiana.