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.
There is a spider that builds larger fake spiders and hangs them in its web
Early explorers described kangaroos as creatures that had heads like deer, stood upright like men, and hopped like frogs. No one believed them.
Rescue dogs tasked with finding survivors at Ground Zero quickly became depressed because they weren't able to find any, causing their handlers to hide in the rubble and give the dogs someone to find.
There is a Japanese inn that opened in 718, that has been managed by 46 generations of the Houshi family. The inn has been operating for 1,300 years.
While filming The Shining, Shelly Duvall was forced to perform the iconic baseball bat scene 127 times to give the character a more exhausted look. Afterwards, Duvall presented the director Kubrick with clumps of hair that had fallen out due to the extreme stress of filming.
If you took out all of the empty space from between and within the atoms making up each human being, the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.
Snackman, the guy who stopped a subway fight by standing between two combatants and calmly ate chips, was inundated with marriage proposals and date requests after video of the brawl went viral.
In World War 2 it was common for desensitized US troops to murder German POWs if they were wearing American boots, as it was a reminder that one of their buddies had been killed
Three border collies have been trained to run around a Chilean forest devastated by wildfire while wearing special backpacks that release native plant seeds.
In 5,000 years of human history, only 2 diseases have been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest
The city of Sochi, Russia erected a fish statue costing about 3800 USD in honor of *Gambusia affinis* (aka mosquito fish) since, after introducing the fish in the early 1900s, there have been no cases of malaria for over 60 years.
~300 million years ago, when trees died, they didn’t rot. It took 60 million years later for bacteria to evolve to be able to decompose wood. Which is where most our coal comes from
In 1906, A Congolese man called Ota Benga from a Mbuti pygmy tribe was held in a human zoo exhibition in Bronx, as a display of "earlier stage" of human evolution. In 1916, after getting out and unable to return to his homeland, he shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistol and died at 32.
Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, formally donated his birthday by deed of gift to a friend's daughter who felt cheated that her own birthday was December 25th.
After Russia outlawed virtually all gambling in 2009. A Russian engineer learned how to cheat slot machines. He took his knowledge to the US and won $21,000. Casinos still have no fix for it.