Weird but interesting facts of life
Some are funny facts and some will make you say WTF. But being inconvenient and not useless, all those facts will enrich your knowledge base and help you pass through.
Every Passover, one Arab-Israeli man buys all of Israel's grain products, or 'chametz,' worth over $150 million for only $4,800. Afterwards he gives it back.
The mgm lion was in a plane crash and survived on sandwiches
Lafayette, a Frenchman who served as a General in the Revolutionary War, toasted to 'the perpetual union of the United States. It has always saved us in times of storm; one day it will save the world.' In 1917, an American officer gave a speech at his grave in Paris; 'Lafayette, we are here.'
Confucius's family, the Kongs, have the longest recorded extant pedigree chart in the world today. The family tree, now in its 83rd generation,has been recorded since the death of Confucius in 479BC
The 3rd stage of Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket launched in 1969 is an semi-stable orbit and revisited the earth-moon system in 2003 and is expected to arrive again in 2040s
A creationist used the shape and appearance of the banana as proof of intelligent design. He later retracted his statements upon learning that bananas are a result of artificial selection by humans.
A study found ripple effect between couples: when one makes an effort to lose weight, the chances are, the other will shed pounds too.
"sentience" means "the ability to feel" and does not mean "self aware". "Sapience" is the ability to have complex thought. Therefore, it is probably true that all animals with a brain are sentient.
Seafood eaters ingest up to 11,000 tiny pieces of plastic every year - Researchers from the University of Ghent in Belgium believe that microplastics accumulate in the body over time and could be a long term health risk
When Paris fell to the Nazis in 1940, French soldiers cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower. This meant that if Hitler wanted to hoist a swastika flag, they would have to climb hundreds of stairs to get to the top.
The phrase "sex, drugs and rock and roll" is just a modernization of the much older "wine, women and song."
The reason why the majority of police uniforms in the U.S. are blue is a result of the civil war. After the war had ended, there was a surplus of blue uniforms which got repurposed for police officers. The color became associated with policing.
A 19 year old girl called police to report an ex-boyfriend was stalking her. They fined her for wasting their time. Six months later she was murdered.
Piers Morgan was fired as the editor of a popular British newspaper in 2004 after publishing fake photos of the torture of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers
The main difference between a brand drug and its generic equivalent is the cost of the product. A generic drug must contain the same active ingredients and must be equivalent in strength and dosage to the original brand-name product.