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.

In 2017 the FDA banned a bakery from listing 'love' as an ingredient on its granola

Fallout's "Fat Man" actually existed in real life. In the 1950's, the US developed the Davy Crockett launcher that would fire essentially a mini-nuke with a 10 or 20 ton yield.

The sound of the bald eagle used in movies is in fact a red tailed hawk, as the actual sound of eagles was considered not impressive enough

Eva Saxl, a diabetic woman who synthesised her own insulin in a basement during WWII, saving not only her own life but the lives of over 200 people in the Shanghai Ghetto who would have died when legal insulin became unavailable

A girl scout sold 117boxes in 2 hours in front of a pot dispensary.

Blackbeard was actually only in his 30s when he was doing the pirate stuff (IE not an old man like in Pirates of the Caribbean)?

Some of the first US spy satellites took imagery on 70 millimeter film, which was recovered by dropping huge film canisters from space and catching them mid-air by a passing US Air Force plane

Blondie was the first artist to reach no 1 in the US with a song that featured rap

The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded alcohol during the last few days of his life.

The often-quoted idiom "seeing is believing" leaves out half of the original sentence. The full quote from 17th century English clergyman, Thomas Fuller, is "Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth."

NVIDIA digitally rendered the moon landing, which revealed why Buzz Aldrin seemed too brightly illuminated on the moon landing picture: he was illuminated by light reflected from the Moon’s surface and Armstrong’s spacesuit

Sehmat Khan, a young Indian girl and spy who got married to a Pakistani Army Officer during the Indo-Pak war of 1971 to gain confidential information and ended up saving thousands of lives by providing information about a Naval attack.

In 2009 a pigeon named Winston raced Telkom, South Africa's largest ISP, to see who could deliver 4GB of data to a location 60 miles away the fastest. By the time Winston arrived with the 4GB flash drive, Telkom had transmitted only 4% of the data.

Dogs watch more TV now, thanks to high-def TVs. Old CRT TVs were too blurry for dogs to see, but modern screens allow dogs to see the images as clearly as humans

If you collapse underwater bubble with soundwaves, light is produced. It's called sonoluminescence.