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.
Norman Rockwell tried to enlist in the Navy during WW1, but was rejected for being 8 pounds underweight. He successfully enlisted the next day after spending the night gorging himself on bananas, liquids and doughnuts.
Ikea's founder, the late billionare Ingvar Kamprad, was incredibly frugal: He disciplines his employees for not using both sides of the paper. He was once turned away from Businessman Of The Year Award for arriving by bus, and assembled all his furniture himself.
During their expedition Lewis and Clark brought packs of "thunderclappers," rediculously strong laxatives made of 60 percent mercury. Due to the strength of the laxatives and the longevity of mercury, scientists can track the route of the expedition by following deposits.
Discarded pet goldfish can grow very large in the wild and are causing serious environmental problems
The First Star Wars Book Was Published Six Months Before the Film Released.
When Genghis Khan died, his army carried his body to his final resting place, killing anyone it met along the way to keep the location a secret
The most successful Bond movie ever is Thunderball released back in 1965. The movie made over $141 million which amounts than $1 billion today when inflation is adjusted.
Students at Christ’s Hospital Boarding School In England Have Been Wearing The Same Uniform Since 1556
There is an orchestra which uses instruments made entirely from vegetables, after the show they use the vegetables to make soup
When "Breaking Bad" was proposed to TV networks, 2 TNT executives loved the story pitch about a middle-aged teacher diagnosed with cancer and turning to a life of crime, but feared getting fired from their jobs over the meth storyline and wanted to change Walter White into a counterfeiter.
It is possible to extinguish all the mosquitoes. Scientists recently reported a system that allows them to push the "Nix" gene to such a system it would essentially create a chain reaction spreading the male gene, producing males until eventually the population crashes.
The SAT was adapted to fit an American "Common Core" education. Logic-based word problems for math were replaced with clear equations, arcane vocabulary was replaced with common words from the workplace, multiple choices were simplified from 5 choices to 4, and the essay portion is now optional.
Statistical analysis of hockey fights confirmed what coaches have long believed, that sending a player out to fight can significantly shift momentum in a game. Researcher Terry Appleby found that 76% of fights resulted in a 'momentum surge' for one team and 23% ended in a surge for both teams.
Thomas Jefferson believed Jesus's teachings were "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man," but that they had been appropriated by his followers, resulting in a Bible that contained both "diamonds of wisdom" and the "dung" of ancient political agendas.
Death by misadventure" is a legally-defined manner of death, primarily attributed to an accident that occurred due to a dangerous risk that was taken voluntarily.