If all the salt in the sea were spread evenly over the land, it would be 500 feet thick.
Sweden makes biofuel from dead rabbits.
Nine species have been named after Barack Obama – more than any other US President.
Volkswagen has changed its official language from German to English.
Almost two-thirds of the 33,000 annual gun deaths in America are suicides.
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What if Twitter had existed for over two centuries? Mankind might not have experienced the beautiful prose, witty quips and moving rhetoric produced by some of the world’s foremost speech writers. Here are some examples of the most famous English speeches of the past two hundred years as they would have been written on Twitter.
“Less is more.” – Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto
Abraham Lincoln
“The Gettysburg Address”
19th of November 1863; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Tweet
This nation is conceived in liberty. All men are created equal. Government of/by/for the people shall not perish from the earth. #Gettysburg
Winston Churchill
“We Shall Fight on the Beaches”
4th of June 1940; House of Commons, London, Great Britain
Tweet
We shall defend our Island whatever the cost may be! We shall fight on the beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets, hills. #neversurrender
John F. Kennedy
“Ich Bin Ein Berliner”
26th of June, 1963; Rathaus Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
Tweet
Freedom is indivisible. When one man is enslaved, all are not free. Free men, wherever they live, are citizens of Berlin. #IchbineinBerliner
Martin Luther King Jr.
“I Have a Dream”
28th of August 1963; Washington, D.C., United States
Tweet
I have a dream that black&white boys&girls join hands as sisters and brothers. My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty. #freedom_ring
Barack Obama
“Yes We Can”
4th of November 2008; Grant Park, Illinois, United States
Tweet
Hope of a better day. Change has come to America. We’ve never been a collection of red&blue states. We are&always will be the USA. #YesWeCan
Niles: What happened to the concept of “less is more”?
Frasier: Ah, but if “less is more,” just think of how much more “more” will be.
– Frasier (1999) Season 7, Ep. 13; “They’re Playing Our Song” [No. 157]
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
In 2008 a lock of Jane Austen’s hair was sold at auction for £5,640.
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.
During his first term as U.S. President, Barack Obama introduced a bill which allowed a person to sue if he was unemployed and didn’t get a job he was interviewed for because he thought he wasn’t hired because he was unemployed.
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