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 purpose of the grand jury is not to determine guilt or innocence, but to decide whether there is probable cause to prosecute someone for a felony crime.
Robert Frost's "A Road Less Traveled" was intended to be a humorous jab at an indecisive colleague. The poem's intent was to convey how both paths are basically the same with the same outcome, so you should just select one randomly and get the fuck on with it already.
The Beatles album, 'Revolver' was almost named 'After Geography' (credits to Ringo), to contrast with the Rolling Stones album, 'Aftermath'.
A Johns Hopkins professor procured 34 gallons of whiskey during prohibition for his research. He observed that subjects got better at throwing darts as they got drunker.
10,000 Iowan farmers built 380 miles of road (entire width of the state) in one hour on a Saturday morning in 1910
Private investigator Tom Grant who was hired by Courtney Love to find missing Kurt Cobain days leading up to his death believes that Kurt Cobain was murdered by Courtney Love.
Robin Williams killed himself due to rapidly approaching dimentia, not simply depression.
Nuclear power plants in the US are so strong that they can be struck by a large commercial airliner and still not release harmful radiation
In 2008, a British man was arrested for drug possession in Dubai after 0.003 grams of marijuana were detected in his shoe.
In the live-action movie "Scooby-Doo: The Movie", Tim Curry was originally supposed to play Scooby. He read the script and declined the roll because Scrappy-Doo was going to be in the movie.
When a Virginia school board tried to ban "To Kill a Mockingbird" as immoral, author Harper Lee wrote a letter asking if the board members were literate and donated money to enroll them in the first grade.
In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of "being homosexual", in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness.
During Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of prisoners were left to die in their cells. They had no food or water for days, as waters rose to their chests. There were no lights and the toilets were backed up. Many were evacuated, but 517 went unaccounted for.
Kid Rock grew up in a 1.3 million dollar estate and his millionaire father owned multiple car dealerships
San Francisco’s LBGT culture was rooted in the gold rush, when the city’s population was 95% men. The unbalanced gender ratio made things such as cross-dressing and same-sex dancing commonplace.