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.
Courage the Cowardly Dog was nominated for an Oscar
A guy from Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.
During the scene for the 2008 film Cloverfield in which the head of the Statue of Liberty falls onto a city street, the head's size is larger than its actual size in real life. Originally it was made properly to scale, but test audiences complained it looked too small and unrealistic.
In 1976 a Japanese ultranationalist porn actor died after flying a plane into the house of a yakuza don to punish him for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Lockheed & betraying the samurai code
Seagulls have been attacking live Whales in Argentina - pecking open their skin to eat the blubber when the whales surface for air.
Vin Diesel agreed to make a cameo appearance in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in exchange for the rights to the Riddick franchise.
The English boy band Blue were in NYC on 9/11 and witnessed the attacks. Later, in an interview with a British tabloid, one member said that "This New York thing is being blown out of proportion" and "Animals need saving and that's more important." This caused them to lose a US record deal.
In 1955, Sears published a phone number that kids could use to "call Santa". However, due to a misprint, the number Sears printed redirected to NORAD's top secret emergency line. Rather than having the ad pulled, NORAD decided to "track" Santa's progress, which they continue to do to this day.
During his lifetime Pythagoras was subject to elaborate legends like having a golden thigh, could fly thanks to a magic arrow, was greeted by name by a river, and once when bitten by a deadly snake, bit it back and killed it
When dogs breathe in, 12% of the inhaled air is taken into special "nose lungs" full of olfactory sensors.
A tortoise injured in a forest fire got a prosthetic 3D-printed shell. A Brazilian artist hand-painted the shell to resemble the original
Walt Disney wasn’t cryogenically frozen. He was cremated and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The rumor that he wanted to be frozen was started in 1972 by the president of the California Cryogenics Society and has since been denied by Disney’s family.
The US solar industry employs twice the amount of workers than that of coal, oil, and natural gas combined
Camouflage does not work on color-blind people and for this reason some were picked as snipers
In the 1930's, Ben "Bugs" Hardaway, an animator who co-directed several Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, was asked to draw pictures of rabbits for a new short, while drawing, Ben labeled the papers as "Bug's Bunny." The name stuck.