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.
Because Windows XP’s wallpaper was costlier than FedEx's insurance, Microsoft had to buy a plane ticket for the photographer to personally deliver it to Seattle
Alfred Hitchcock pieced together a compilation of videos from Holocaust. Originally filmed by British and american soldiers who liberated the camps. The video was hiden from the public for over 40 years. VERY/NSFL
In Weird Al Yankovic's parody 'Amish Paradise' where the scene is in reverse, Al lip synced the words backwards whilst shooting normally so when the scene was reversed Al's lips matched the video.
The voyager space message contains greetings in 55 languages, but is missing Swahili because the person did not show up to the studio.
Tennis balls were traditionally black or white. They were changed to yellow in 1972 after research showed they were more visible on television.
Spending an average of 27 minutes each day practicing mindfulness exercises increases gray-matter density in the hippocampus, known to be important for learning and memory, and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion, and introspection over an 8-week period.
A woman confessed to trying to kill her husband by putting poison in her vagina and urging him to have oral sex with her. One commentator dubbed the murder plot “cunning cunnilingus.”
Aberdeen, Washington, the birthplace of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, changed their town motto in 2005 to "Come As You Are" as a tribute to Cobain
Different Dolphin species will attempt to speak a 'common language': When Bottlenose and Guyana dolphins come together in the waters near Costa Rica they change the way they communicate and begin using an intermediate language
The voice of Maude Flanders requested a $4000 raise to cover increasing commute costs, but FOX only offered $150 instead. This dispute is what led to Maude being killed off
Elon Musk called Apple a 'graveyard' for fired Tesla staff stating: “If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding.”
Disney while making Coco tried to trademark the phrase "Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)", a Mexican holiday for a centuries old sacred tradition. A trademark that also included applications pertaining to toys, cereals and jewelry.
When childhood friend, Amy Wadge, couldn't afford to pay her mortgage, Ed Sheeran let her co-write "Thinking Out Loud," so she could get paid for it. The song has been streamed more than half a billion times on Spotify alone, and it eventually went three times platinum in the UK.
An ocean line stewardess who survived the sinking of three ships: Titanic, Britannic, and the Olympic, made sure to grab her toothbrush while going down with the Britannic because it was the first thing she missed having after going down on the Titanic.
By clicking on the first link of any given Wikipedia article, and continuing that process on every other subsequent article, you will almost always arrive on the "Philosophy" page