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.
Sweden was the first country to put a eugenic state into practice before WW2 and the first state that set up for racial biology, an estimated 63,000 women were sterilised who were deemed to not have ‘Aryan-like’ genes, it ended in 1973 and compensation has been paid since 2000 to any victims
Walt Disney's last words were "Kurt Russell."
Wine tasting is completely unsubstantiated by science, and almost no wine critics can consistently rate a wine
Rum-Running is smuggling alcohol over water; Boot-Legging is smuggling alcohol over land.
Butterflies sometimes drink turtle's tears to get the necessary sodium for their diet
The Lincoln Cathedral in England was, upon completion in 1311, the first and only structure in the world built taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, which had held the record since the 2560s BC. The Cathedral lost its record in 1548 because the top fell off from wind.
The McRib is being sold all year round at McDonald's in Germany, it has been a permanent menu item since 1985.
150,000 condoms were provided to the athletes at the 2012 olympics, enough for each athlete to have protected sex 15 times.
Back in 1984, religious fanatics in Iran sent children marching over minefields to clear them. They got plastic keys that would open the gates of heaven for them. Later, they also gave them blankets so corpse parts wouldn't be blown everywhere.
The oldest known individual tree in the world is 5,067 years old, yet there are no photos of the tree online, and its location is kept secret to protect it
Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, spent 10 years of his life programming an operating system to talk to God
The switch from $1 bills to $1 coins would save American taxpayers approximately $4.4 billion in the next 30 years. This is because coins are significantly more durable than paper bills.
Sam Worthington was broke and living in his car when he landed the lead role of Jake Sully in Avatar
Fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That's why it gets so quiet when it snows.
"rods" and "hogshead" are actual measurement units, and when Grandpa Simpson claims his car "gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I like it", he's boasting about getting just shy of 0.002 MPG.