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.
The Hindu god Shiva has long been linked to cannabis. Shiva came and drank the poison created by the cosmic ocean, but over time it made him so hot he needed to be cooled down. Marijuana is supposed to be a coolant – so it is said that Shiva smokes weed to keep his body temperature down.
It takes 1 gallon of water to produce 1 single almond, and drought-ridden California produces 80% of the world's almonds.
In the 1970s after Boeing fired 63,000 employees in Seattle alone, someone put up this billboard: "Will the last person leaving Seattle - Turn out the lights."
An identity thief stole the identity of a surgeon and while aboard a Navy destroyer was tasked with performing several life saving surgeries. He proceeded to memorize a medical textbook just before hand and successfully performed the surgery with all patients surviving.
Using astronomical data it has been determined that on this day, 16 Apr, Odysseus finally returned to Ithaca 3,192 years ago
The FCC Received Over 13,000 Complaints about Comcast's Data Caps within Months of Rolling Out
A Frenchwoman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300's for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. Hunting French ships, when she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
The Nazis never called themselves 'Nazis', as it was a derogatory word for a backwards peasant. It was the anti-Nazis that popularised the term.
In 1929 hockey player Eddie Shore, after missing his train, drove 350 miles through a blizzard to a game. The car's chains broke twice, the wipers broke, he removed the top half of the windshield, and crashed into a ditch. He still made it and scored the game's only goal.
McDonald's paid Justin Timberlake an estimated $6 million dollars to sing ba-da-ba-ba-bah as part of their I'm loving it as campaign.
John Cleese of Monty Python has the unique distinction of having turned down both a life peerage (barony) and a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), saying he felt the honor was “silly."
When Michael Jackson's car broke down once in Beverly Hills, he called 911 for help. He was advised to only use 911 in emergency situations. He was very suprised when they refused to assist him, even after he told them that he was Michael Jackson.
The broccoli in the movie 'Inside Out' was changed to bell peppers in the Japan version because they are more universally hated by Japanese children
Einstein refused surgery, saying: "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." - he then died the next day
Despite containing a sizable population that despises homosexuality and Western liberal values, Zanzibar's tourism industry thrives because of Queen fans that visit the island to see Freddie Mercury's birthplace.