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.
The European Space Agency and EU are currently deploying an alternative to GPS, called "Galileo". As well as being accurate to 1 meter, it will also have a "Search and Rescue Service", where distress signals can be picked up from anywhere on Earth. The full system will be completed by 2019.
Scott Swift is a wealthy Merrill Lynch banker who purchased a 3% stake ($120,000 ) of the independent label Big Machine Records, the label that first signed his daughter Taylor Swift.
The Kellogg's cereal company has a royal warrant, in part because they make some of Queen Elizabeth's favorite breakfast cereals.
Broccoli is man made. Even though it was made over 2000 years ago. By farmers breeding different types of cabbage
Human Evolution solves the same problem in different ways. Native Early peoples adapted to high altitudes differently: In the Andes, their hearts got stronger, in Tibet their blood carries oxygen more efficiently.
Ugly people are likelier to get harsher prison sentences as opposed to attractive people
The Statue of Liberty's torch has been closed to the public since July 30, 1916 when it sustained structural damage from the Black Tom explosion - an act of German sabotage targeting a US munitions depot during WWI
A good old-fashioned fistfight between consenting parties is legal in the state of Washington.
The Popsicle Index, a quality of life measurement based on the percentage of parents who feel that their child can safely walk to the nearest store and buy a Popsicle by themselves.
In two days we create the same amount of information that it took all of humanity to create from the dawn of civilization to 2003.
The SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus is so infectious that one man in Hong Kong infected 183 people in 8 appartment buildings with one horriffic bowel movement, causing a plume of aerosolised faeces to circulate through the ventiltion system and outside on the wind.
One company owns Ray Bans, Arnette, Oakley, Persol, and Oliver Peoples, makes glasses for Chanel, Prada, Armani, Coach, Versace, and Polo Ralph Lauren, owns Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Target Optical, and Pearle Vision, and owns EyeMed, a vision insurance company.
When a church put an anti-beer ad in the newspaper a local brewery accepted it as a $1 off coupon
An old lady who bumped into Stephen King in the supermarket told him she didn't like his writing and she preferred uplifting movies like Shawshank Redemption. When King told her he wrote that too, she replied 'No, you didn't.', causing King to momentarily doubt that he was indeed the author.
White Hands is a nonprofit organization in Japan that has a service called Ejaculation Help where medical sex workers help people with disabilities reach orgasms.