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.
When cardinals failed to elect a pope for 2 years, a hermit warned them of divine vengeance. Cardinals elected him as Pope Celestine V. He refused and tried to flee, and after being persuaded, he wrote two decrees: for fixing the papal elections and for allowing him to resign. Then resigned
If you choose cremation, you can have your ashes made into a rock to form the base of an “eternal memorial reef” so that you can help coral reefs bloom after you’ve died.
In 1992 the carrier Saratoga accidentally launched live missiles during a joint U.S - Turkish exercise, killing several Turkish naval officers.
The phrase "And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!" Was never said throughout the entire original run of Scooby Doo. Also, the phrase "Meddling kids" was only used 3 times.
A company named Ray's Sausage spent over $20,000.00 in improvements to their sausage making business due to constant complaints for causing foul odors, but the odors were actually from the rotting victims of serial killer Anthony Sowell.
There is about 2 times as many people of Scottish ancestry living in the United States and Canada compared to Scotland.
I learned that the only Brown Panda in the world was abandoned by his mother at two months old, and was bullied by other pandas. Now has his own care-taker in Foping Panda Valley in China.
There is a super rare blood type called RH Null that only around 10-40 people in the world have.
South Korea, despite having completed the transistion to digital broadcast (ATSC) in 2012, still maintains analogue broadcast near its borders for North Koreans watching South Korean TV in secret.
Arnold Schwarzenegger reduced the sentence of a convicted murderer because he was the son of a friend.
Bill Gates accidentally got into philanthropy after he and his wife accidentally came across extremely impoverished people while they were sight seeing. He now says philanthropy is the "best job in the world."
Romans kept track of the years by naming them after the two consuls that year (e.g. the consulship of Vinicius and Haterius) When Julius Caesar essentially ruled alone during his "co-consulship" with Bibulus, Romans joked by referring to that year as the consulship of Julius and Caesar.
PepsiCo owns Lays, Doritos and Tropicana and generates 1.5x more revenue than its rival, the Coca-Cola Company
Disney parks allowed people with wheelchairs to cut in line with 6 guests, which led to the formation of a black-market where the 1% could rent disabled tour guides.
The Pixies song, "Gigantic" used by Apple to promote the iPhone 5S last spring is about a black man's penis.