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.
That, over the course of 144 episodes, only one character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer died of natural causes. The following episode, which examines Buffy's mourning/reaction to the first death she couldn't have prevented, is consistently ranked as one of the best television episodes of all time.
The largest wine cellar in the world is Moldova's Mileștii Mici. It has streets that carry the names of grape. Visitors drive cars or bikes in it, and traffic rules apply. The second largest wine cellar in the world is also in Moldova.
Aids denial in South Africa resulted in an epidemic that resulted in an estimated 300,000 deaths
In WW1 only two nations did not execute their soldiers for desertion, the United States and Australia.
When Joseph Stalin's wife died he stated, "This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity." He became so distraught during her burial that he threw himself into her open grave and had to be dragged out.
There will be five new sports debuting in the 2020 Summer Olympics: Skateboarding, Rock climbing, Surfing, Baseball/Softball, and Karate
Rhesus Monkeys had their own Milgrim Experiment equivalent, and performed FAR better than humans in altruistic behavior. The majority of monkeys DID NOT shock the other monkeys, some choosing to starve for almost 2 weeks rather than to harm others.
Over 200 stolen German cars have been found in the possession of friends and family of the President of Tajikistan. Tajik officials refuse to address this fact.
Eleanor Roosevelt's civil rights work angered the Ku Klux Klan so much that they put a $25,000 bounty on her.
When Sati was prohibited in India. Charles Napier told protesting Hindu priests "Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property..."
The U.S provides GPS service world wide for free, while U.S tax payers pay $2 million dollars a day to keep it operating.
The Manhattan project was so secret, vice president Truman wasn't even debriefed on it until he assumed office after FDR's death
The pyramids in Egypt were originally white and smooth, as they were encased in marble.
Conspiracy Theory Rock - A Banned Segment from Saturday Night Live, part of a March 1998 "TV Funhouse" segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the Saturday Night Live episode where it originally appeared because it "wasn't funny".
Internet speed at NASA is 91 gigabits per second which is 13,000 times faster then average internet speed.