Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one!)
1. Hum, Croatia is the smallest town in the world. The town is smaller than a football field, and has a population of just two dozen people.
Still, Hum has a museum, an inn, two churches, and even a unique liqueur called ‘biska’ which can’t be found anywhere else in the world.
2. Vanna White has worn a different dress on every single episode of “Wheel of Fortune” . . . more than 7,000 total. But she doesn’t get to keep them.
3. If you made $5,000-a-day since Christopher Columbus first arrived in America, you would have just surpassed $1 billion total. (And because the finance nerds will ask, this is without compounding.)
4. There were proposals in the 1600s to use an upside-down or crooked exclamation point as a way to show the sentence was ironic or sarcastic.
(If only they knew how valuable this could be to a future society when we only communicate in brief lines of text.)
AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)
#3!
If you made $5,000-a-day since Christopher Columbus first arrived in America, you still wouldn’t have $1 billion today. You’d finally get there in 2040. (And because the finance nerds will ask, this is without compounding.)
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