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.

Thomas Jefferson included a paragraph in the Declaration of Independence condemning the King of Great Britain for slavery, but it was ultimately deleted.

There have been computers programmed in "ternary" instead of the conventional binary. One such computer, built by the Soviets in 1958, had distinct advantages over binary computers such as increased power efficiency, cheaper parts and easier implementation of certain operations.

In 1909 two chemists invented an industrial process to harvest nitrogen from the air. Today, the nitrogen from that process keeps roughly 3.5 billion people alive.

Ewan McGregor's brother is a pilot in the RAF, and his callsign is "Obi-Two"

The Roman Empire was once sold at auction by the Praetorian Guard, who had just killed the previous emperor

When a peacock shakes his tail, it produces a low pitched sound humans can't hear despite the noise being about as loud as a car going past a few metres away.

We do not eat 8 spiders in our sleep every year and it was blatant misinformation made up by Lisa Holst who was criticizing gullible people believing anything

MIT engineer Dennis Klatt synthesised Stephen Hawking's 'voice'. Hawking subsequently requested to keep that voice throughout every upgrade of his system.

Male Peacocks make fake sex noises in order to attract more females and convince them that they are sexually active

President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car and would scare his guests by driving into a lake, screaming about brake failure.

The "Ephors" of Ancient Sparta were a council of 5 men that held the power to depose the Spartan Kings or elder councilmen, were elected for 1 year terms and were ineligible for re-election afterwards.

After a neo-Nazi group adopted a half-mile stretch of highway in Missouri, the state renamed it the "Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway"

A construction company destroyed a Mayan temple from 200BC and was fined only $24,000

Stephen King doesn't remember writing Cujo because he was blacked out drunk the whole time.

Ulysses S Grant got a speeding ticket on a horse and was fined $5