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 last feudal state collapsed in 2008, a tiny island called Sark where cars, street lights and divorce are illegal
Pioneering shock rocker Alice Cooper credits golf with helping him overcome alcohol addiction and plays the game up to six days a week.
The tallest unoccupied building in the world is a 3,000 room hotel in North Korea. Construction on the 1,082-foot Ryugyong Hotel began in 1987 and was halted in 1992. After a number of attempts to resurrect the project, the hotel still hasn’t opened, 28 years after construction began.
Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Between 5% and 20% of people who suffer from the disease eventually die from it.
It took Quebec until 2006 to pay off its debt from hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics
The high pitched voice theory of the Neanderthal, that because of the shape of their vocal chords, size of their head and rib cage, it's likely Neanderthals would have had a very loud, high pitches voices.
Carlos Santana revealed to Rolling Stone that he was contacted by the Archangel Metatron and told how to create his next album 'Supernatural.' It went on to win 12 Grammy's including Album of the Year, went 15 times platinum, charted #1 in ten countries, and sold 30 million copies.
Teddy Roosevelt was so bored as VP of the United States that he seriously considered finishing law school while serving.
Tama, the Japanese Stationmaster Cat was granted the posthumous status of Shinto goddess. Around 3,000 people attended her funeral.
In 1917, British forces were not ready for a head on assault of Jerusalem, so British intelligence created a plan where cigarettes would be air dropped by recon planes for the Ottomans everyday up until the day of the assault, where they instead dosed all the cigarettes with opium.
The rate of PTSD in adults who were in foster care for one year between the ages of 14–18 was found to be higher than that of combat veterans.
Elevators in Singapore are equipped with urine detecting devices. If urine odour is detected, the elevator would automatically be locked and the police would be called to arrest the perpetrator.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the 60,000-words-long "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" during a six-day cocaine high.
University of Cambridge researchers studying animal cooperation found elephants learned even faster than chimps; "elephants' understanding of the need to cooperate shows that they belong in an 'elite group' of intelligent, socially complex animals."
The oldest bottle of wine, Known as Römerwein, or the Speyer wine bottle, it’s at least 1,650 years old. This dates back to the 4th century, sometime between 325 and 359 AD. The 1.5-liter glass vessel was discovered during the excavation of a Roman nobleman’s tomb in modern-day Germany.