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.
Michael Jordan wanted a sponsorship deal with Adidas but they thought he was too short. He signed with Nike instead and today his brand makes about $3 billion a year in sales, with $100 million going to Jordan.
In Mexico City people were offered free wi-fi in exchange for picking up dog droppings and weighing them, thus measuring the amount of free wi-fi given, in an attempt to clean up the city from dog poo
A UK girl was accused of lying about being raped and arrested. The detectives sent in her shirt for DNA testing six months later and found evidence to convict the guy she'd originally accused. She was awarded £20,000.
Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a concept describing individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a "fraud".
The Indian village of Meghalaya, the wettest place on Earth, has trained branches of rubber trees to create natural bridges over rainy valleys.
According to studies, when men and women are "just friends", on average men think the woman is still romantically interested in them, and on average women think the men are strictly just friends.
Panera Bread tried to stop a Qdoba Mexican Grill from opening nearby by trying to argue that a 'burrito is a sandwich' and thus breaking the lease agreement restricting rent from another 'sandwich shop'
if a Disney cruise ship needs to be evacuated, the first people to get a lifeboat are two Disney employees dressed as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. This is to ensure children that the two characters did not go down with the ship.
To help airline passengers deal with travel anxiety, San Francisco International Airport has hired the nation's first airport therapy pig. LiLou wears costumes and performs tricks to help travelers calm down before boarding their flights.
Will Smith refused to play the role of Mohammed Ali for 8 years, fearing he wasn't up for the job of playing the man he called the "greatest figure over the last 100 years", stating "I absolutely, positively did not want to be the dude that messed up the Muhammad Ali story."
Two nurses hired within months of each other to work the same shift on the same floor at the same Florida hospital discovered they were long lost sisters from Korea, who had been separated for nearly 40 years.
IBM Had To Delete 'Urban Dictionary' Data from The Watson Super Computer System Because The Machine Started Cursing.
Roofies are now manufactured to leave tell-tale blue specks when mixed with liquid
After Tupac was cremated, his ashes were mixed with marijuana and smoked by members of his hip-hop group, Outlawz.
Strong light can cause some people to sneeze. Up to 35% of the population is affected by "Photic sneezing reflex" and science doesn't know why