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Jim Carrey tuned down $10M he was offered to star in The Mask II!


The reason Jim Carrey refused the $10M was because the role would not be a challenge for him. At the time the $10M was offered to him, it would have been record-setting. For many people, just the opportunity to break a record (and get all that money) would have been convincing, but it wasn’t enough for Jim Carrey. After playing Ace Ventura for a second time in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Carrey realized that repeating a role didn’t offer him any challenges, so he refused.
Instead of Mask II, Son of the Mask was created. It was fairly unrelated, and did not have Carrey in it. Unsurprising, it won some of the “awards” for being the worst sequel with a poor cast and director. The first movie, the one Carrey starred in, did very well at the box office.
The Mask earned $350 million worldwide, and $119 million in the United States alone. It was nominated for Best Special Effects, and Carrey himself was nominated for a Golden Globe. Although it sometimes received mixed reviews, it was pretty well received by the public.


The US Department of Defense worked on Transformers 2 for over a year.


We’ve previously talked about how the US Military often consults on major films depicting it, and neglected to consult on The Avengers. While a sect of the US Military devoted to superheroes was deemed too unrealistic for the military, a movie about giant transforming alien robots fighting alongside the military was deemed okay.
Jokes aside, the whole purpose is just to strive for more realism. For the first Transformers film, DreamWorks and Paramount Studios partnered with the United States Air Force. With Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in 2009, the production company decided to branch out to highlight America’s military members and power on the big screen.
Often, real military members (current and former) are even cast in movies like this to encourage realism. It might seem a little odd that films like Transformers would be concerned with realism. The explanation makes perfect sense though.
In movies without supernatural elements, the audience automatically assumes everything operates in the same functional, normal world. When an element like aliens or superpowers is introduced, the production team often works harder to maintain the viewers’ suspension of disbelief.
It’s really just to make it so that the audience can buy into the premise. So it makes sense that in movies like Transformers, the production team would bring in military consultants to ensure the film is as true to reality as it could be.


Aerosmith has made more money from Guitar Hero than from album sales.


Following the release of Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band 2, the popularity of the franchises began to wane. In the wake of this, titles like Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and The Beatles Rock Band were being released to a high degree of success.
Though Aerosmith’s own Guitar Hero, released in 2008, was very successful and popular, many people were displeased with some omissions on the song selection. Additionally, many felt that a lack of improvements in the gameplay made the game feel not worth it.
Despite this, the game sold like hotcakes. In its first week, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith sold more than 550,000 copies, grossing more than 25 million in sales. In the following three months, it sold over a million copies and made $50 million dollars. Aerosmith also benefitted in album sales with a 40% sales increase.
Though the exact numbers aren’t known, Aerosmith earned more from the game than album sales. Of course, not all of this was from the game’s royalties. Merchandising and concert sales were both boosted from the game. Today, the game has sold 3.6 million units.


Myth Busted: Men DO NOT think about sex every seven seconds


Society tells us that men should always be on the prowl for casual hookups, thinking about sex every seven seconds, but according to a recent study men don’t think about sex any more than food or sleep.
According to a recent study published in The Journal of Sex Research, men think about sex on average 18.6 times a day. Overall men are found to report a greater number of personal-need-based thoughts than women, including areas such as food 18 times a day, and sleep 11 times a day.


Lucy Liu claims to have had sex with a ghost.


In a US Weekly interview, Lucy Liu was not shy about her sex encounter with a ghost, or a heavenly figure. She said that it was sheer bliss, she felt everything and then he floated away. Apparently her description is not unlike what many other people report.
This could be a subset of what's called an incubus encounter, an often scary meeting with a creature that sits on your chest and looks scary. Really it's just something called sleep paralysis in which the paralysis effects of REM sleep intrude into a waking state, resulting in you not being able to move but are still awake.Lucy Liu might have just experienced a similar incubus encounter, but instead of her being scared and paralyzed, she felt like she had sex with a ghost!


It is illegal for physicians to determine the sex of a fetus in India.

India has a long history of preferring sons to daughters. The distribution of women versus men in society is heavily weighted towards males, even with the efforts of lawmakers to even out this distribution. It is really interesting that among higher classes this preference towards males tends to be more pronounced than in lower classes.
Because of this unequal distribution, lawmakers have made it illegal for India physicians to figure out the sex of fetuses in their mother’s womb. The hope is that without parents knowing the sex of their child, they’ll be less likely to abort a girl and carry it full term, helping to even out the population.
However, many physicians continue to offer services to tell the gender of an unborn child, despite the risks. For many doctors, the payout for offering to find the gender of a fetus is greater than the risk of being caught and punished by the government.
The actual extent of this law breaking is more or less unknown, but it’s thought to be very common. The business of finding genders and aborting females is thought to be worth more than $100 million in India.


After sex, some men experience sadness and regret, which is known as Post-coital tristesse!


PCT is a feeling of melancholy after having sexual intercourse. PCT is more common in men than it is in women. Many sufferers of PCT also feel strong anxiety for five minutes to two hours after sex. The term itself comes from the Latin post-coital and the French tristesse literally meaning sadness after sex. It is also known as depression after sex.
The reason for the sadness is thought to be due to the loss of semen and the exhaustion the body faces after intercourse. Instead of feeling a relief, the body feels weakness and exhaustion. The Latin proverb “omne animal post coital triste” goes along with PCT and means “all animals are sad after sex.”
Aristotle and many other writers and poets have written of post-coital tristesse in their work. The hormone prolactin, used in making breastmilk, is also found in men and shoots sky high right after an orgasm. It skyrockets 400% more during sex than during masturbation, leading scientists to believe that intercourse is much more satisfying than masturbation.
The prolactin plateaus and you feel a lull in your emotions. It can also be an issue faced if one has sex with someone they don’t really care about, because of the intimate connection sex brings.


In the 1860s policemen were legally allowed to examine almost any woman’s private parts.


By the 1860’s, the British government suddenly realized that many of the men in their military suffered from venereal disease like syphilis. This naturally compelled to regulate prostitution through a bill called the Contagious Diseases Prevention Act. This sounds reasonably reasonable, right?
Well... The law was directed only at women. Essentially, any woman suspected of being a prostitute was required to comply to a physical examination by a police officer. No warrant was required. There were no age limitations. All the police required was a little tip from any random person, and they could seize, and force women to have their “private parts” examined. Naturally, it was mostly working or poor women who were subjected to this brutal assault of basic liberties.


Belize's flag is the only national banner that depicts human beings.


The flags of Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands also depict human beings, but they are British territories, not independent nations.
Belize is also the only Central American country that has English as its official language.


In Ancient Rome, whitening one's teeth was often accomplished using urine.


Ammonia, which is found in urine, is also a cleaning agent that can kill bacteria. The ancient Egyptians would whiten their teeth with a mixture of pulverized pumice and wine vinegar.
Strangely enough, centuries later, teeth whitening methods got worse! In the 1800s they used to whiten teeth by filing them down and then washing them in nitric acid. This also destroyed the protective enamel of the teeth (not a good idea!).Facts Facts Facts v1 ~ Facts Facts Facts ~ one day these facts might win you money.

This post has been edited by CeDhhVss: Nov 19 2013, 05:08 PM

Police officer.. Had such rule still applies, I will be police by now then

Good read. Thx bro.

So... All those celebrities used urine to clean their teeth?

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A hanging, if done improperly, can result in a slow death by strangulation or decapitation.


An ideal hanging is called a long drop. The subject is dropped from a long distance, which, based on their weight, will produce 1,000 and 1,250 foot-pounds of torque. This much torque will snap the subject's neck, severing the spine, causing immediate unconsciousness. The unconscious "hangee" dies without feeling pain.
If the drop is too short, or the noose knot is in the wrong place, the subject will die slowly from strangulation. the If the drop goes too far, the subject could lose his head (like Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan al Tikriti). During the Nuremberg hangings, a number of the German officers strangled to death as a result of botched executions. Wilhelm Keitel struggled at the end of his rope for 24 minutes before he died.


Sony's first product was a defective rice cooker.


Sony founder Masaru Ibuka started looking into making electronics products because in post-war Japan electricity was cheap. As the war plants were closing down, there was more electricity being produced than was needed. Ibuka's first product was an electric rice-cooker that had a tendency to either overcook or undercook rice.


The Constitution of the United States does not contain the word 'democracy.'


The model for the Mona Lisa may have been a man.


An art historian believes that Leonardo da Vinci based his most famous painting on one of his favorite young models, a young man named Gian Giacomo Caprotti. Caprotti, also known as Salai, is thought to have served as the inspiration for several of Da Vinci's pieces, including a painting of John the Baptist and a drawing called Angel Incarnate. The similarities between the noses and mouths in these works make the art historian's argument quite compelling and difficult to deny.
The letter 'S' that was recently found in Mona's eye is also thought by many to stand for Salai. Until now, most experts believed that the model for the painting was a 24-year-old woman named Lisa Gherardini and that the work began in 1503. This new evidence draws both the starting date and painting subject further into question, and only adds to the mystery surrounding one of the most enigmatic works of art of all time!


Many Japanese couples hold divorce ceremonies that are similar to weddings.



The couples dress up in front of their friends and families, vow never to see each other again, and then smash a ring with a hammer. The idea is to emulate the formality of a traditional wedding in the hopes of increasing the acceptability of the once taboo practice. With the divorce rate in Japan continuing to climb there are now companies that specialize in providing divorce ceremonies like these.

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A lot of comedy actors are underrated

Adam Sandler is always criticized for his movies

But when he stared in gems like Reign over Me, Funny People & Punch Drunk Love (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson) nobody come to watch

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Johnny Depp is afraid of clowns.


The reason for his coulrophobia? Because, as he stated in an interview with Australia’s Courier Mail newspaper, “it’s impossible, thanks to their painted-on smiles, to distinguish if they are happy or if they are about to bite your face off!” Depp went on to say, “there always seemed to be a darkness lurking just under the surface, a potential for real evil.” It makes you wonder what kind of potential he thinks characters such as Edward Scissorhands or his version of Willy Wonka have...


After being separated for 30 years, a brother and sister were reunited on a blind date.


Can you say AWKWARD? Sarah Kemp and George Bentley met on a dating site called “ForgetDinner.co.uk.” The pair instantly hit it off together and corresponded through email for several months. Since Sarah lives in Scotland and George is from London, the pair did not choose to get together and get serious until they were sure a relationship could work. At long last, the would-be couple went out on a date at the White Horse, George’s favorite pub. After about an hour of small talk, the duo came to a shocking realization - they weren’t soulmates...they were actually long-lost siblings!
The fact that over 30 years had passed and they no longer shared a last name makes this an honest but hilarious mistake. However, it is rather strange that no clues surfaced after months of romantic courtship and correspondence! George and Sarah Bentley had grown up together, but in 1975, when George was 11 years old and Sarah only 6, their parents got a divorce. Sarah and her mother Felicity moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, while David and George Bentley stayed in London. In 1989, Sarah got married and decided to keep her her ex-husband’s last name when they divorced a year later, which made George’s future search for his sister impossible!


The Statue of Liberty’s face is said to be modeled after its sculptor’s mother.


Lady Liberty was created by a young Frenchman by the name of Frédérick Bartholdi. After his design was approved and he had been awarded a U.S. design patent, Bartholdi actually came overseas to America and personally selected New York Harbor as the site for his statue!
The Statue's torch was the first part constructed in France in 1876. On July 4th, 1884, the completed Statue was given as a gift to the United States; however, its reassembly was not completed until October 1886. In 1984, the original torch, now located in the lobby of the monument, was replaced by a new copper torch covered in 24K gold leaf which is lighted by floodlight at night. Unfortunately, the torch area above the statue’s raised arm has been closed since 1916 due to weakening of the copper in this area.


A man pre-ordered Duke Nukem Forever a decade ago!


Bill, a.k.a. “Slash000”, put down $10 back on August 13, 2001 in anticipation of the game’s release later that year. Little did he know that he would not play it for ten years! Due to various development issues, Duke Nukem Forever looked like it’s release would take, well...FOREVER! The game became an industry joke and synonymous with vaporware (games that are announced, but never officially released or canceled).
Fortunately, Bill was clever enough to store his preorder receipt in a black DVD case in a cool ventilated room, thereby preserving it for all those years. “It started to disintegrate when I left it out in the open,” Bill said, “and I'm going to frame it with the purchase receipt now that the game has finally arrived.” He redeemed the ancient receipt at his local GameStop on June 14th, and the $10 deduction was eventually approved...despite the fact that the original promotion was no longer in the system!


Apple made their own video game system in the 90s.


The Pippin, which Apple produced with the help of toy company Bandai, was a $600 CD-based game console that came out in 1995. This would have put it in direct competition with the Sega Saturn, Sony Playstation, and the Nintendo 64, except for one thing -- it failed miserably. When it came out, the only game publisher to produce software for it was Bandai itself. When you combine that with a $600 price tag, and it’s no surprise they were only able to sell 42,000 units. On the plus side, at least you could use it to play Marathon, the predecessor to Halo.

Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.


There’s a species of lizards that are 100 percent females and they’re nicknamed the Lesbian Lizards!


The New Mexico whiptail is a species of lizard found in the southern United States in New Mexico and Arizona, and in northern Mexico in Chihuahua. It is the official state reptile of New Mexico. It is one of many lizard species known to be parthenogenic. Individuals of the species can be created either through the hybridization of the little striped whiptail and the tiger whiptail or through the parthenogenic reproduction of an adult New Mexico whiptail.
The hybridization of these species prevents healthy males from forming whereas males do exist in both parent species and parthenogenesis allows the resulting all-female population to reproduce and thus evolve into a unique species capable of reproduction. This combination of interspecific hybridization and parthenogenesis exists as a reproductive strategy in several species of whiptail lizard within the Cnemidophorus genus to which the New Mexico whiptail belongs. They’re known as lesbian lizards.

There’s a real-life Tatooine.

For the first time ever, astronomers have found a planet with two suns! The Kepler-16 system is a pair of binary stars with a large planet orbiting them both. The astronomers found the planet is 200 light-years away from Earth, using NASA’s Kepler space telescope.
This lends some credibility to the imaginings of George Lucas. Luke Skywalker’s home planet, the desert planet Tatooine, has two suns, something that was unheard of in the real world until now. However, while Tatooine was crawling with all sorts of alien life, there’s no indication that Kepler-16 is capable of sustaining any life on it at all.

Apple seeds are slightly poisonous.


So much for “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Apple seeds contain cyanide- a highly toxic chemical compound that has applications in mining, fishing, and pest control. Also, its proteins have been known to cause two forms of allergies. Even with these properties, the apple is no forbidden fruit.
About 69 million tonnes of apples were grown worldwide in 2010, and of course 50% of them were “made in China.” The United States is the second-leading producer of apples with more than 6% of the worldwide production. Now, apples aren’t a complete death trap. Research suggests that they reduce the risk of colon cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer. Additionally, apple seeds are not usually dangerous to humans, as they only contain a splash of poison.


Ketchup, both the word and the sauce, originated in China!


Ketchup is a condiment thought to be a staple of America. Few would taste it and think it has anything to do with Asia, yet most people don’t know its interesting history. The word for ketchup originates from the Chinese word “kôe-chiap,” which means, “brine of pickled fish or shellfish.” Ketchup was originally composed of fish brine and various herbs and spices and tasted much more like Worcestershire sauce than modern day ketchup.
The recipe for the sauce began to spread around Asia and eventually made it to Indonesia and Malaysia, where the British discovered it in the 17th century. The English sailors liked it so much they took it back to England, where they added tomatoes that had been brought over in the previous century from the New World, creating the first version of recognizable modern day ketchup!


A blind man regained his vision by having a tooth implanted in his eye.


Martin Jones of Rotherham, England had NEVER seen his own wife! This was because, eight years prior to his marriage, a tub of white hot aluminum had exploded in Jones's face while he was working in a scrapyard. As a result, Martin suffered 37 percent burns and lost both his left eye and the vision in his right one.
Over 12 years later, a revolutionary procedure allowed Martin a chance to get his sight back. The technique required part of a tooth to be used as an artificial lens (living tissue is needed because plastic would likely be rejected by the body). Skin from Martin's cheek was grafted onto the blind eye and after two months of growth, the partial tooth is placed upon this base. A hole was then drilled into the tooth to allow light to shine through.
After eight hours of surgery, the procedure was a success! Said Martin of his wife, "The doctors took the bandages off and it was like looking through water and then I saw this figure and it was her. She's wonderful and lovely. It was unbelievable to see her for the first time."


The crowd at the first guillotine execution was angry because it was too quick and demanded the return of the gallows!


The guillotine was an instrument of execution developed during the French Revolution. It was first presented as a new, more efficient and humane replacement to the gallows, which were extremely unpredictable. Hanging a person always ensured their death, but if the rope was too long, the person’s head could be pulled from their body, and a rope too short would cause them to wriggle for up to 30 minutes during a slow suffocation process.
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was a French physician who developed and promoted the guillotine, hoping for a more civilized form of execution. Unfortunately, it was so easy that thousands were executed by it. The first person executed by the machine was Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on April 25, 1792.
He was a common criminal and highwayman, and after attacking a civilian and killing him was arrested and ordered to death. The National Assembly had recently ordered decapitation the only “enlightened” form of execution permissible in France, and Pelletier was forced to wait for three months while the first guillotine was being constructed!
When his day came, he was decapitated in front of a rather large crowd who were eager to see the new machine in use. However, almost all of them were disappointed and began to boo. They had come to see a show, not a simple decapitation.
They demanded the return of hanging as a form of capital punishment, yet even with their appeals, the guillotine caught on and made quite the mark in history.


An 80-year old soldier during the Revolutionary War was shot in the face and stabbed 13 times. He survived and lived to be 98!


Samuel Whittemore: English-American farmer, soldier, and man of steel. At the age of 80, he became the oldest known colonial combatant in the American Revolutionary War. During a Battle of Lexington and Concord, one of the opening engagements of the war; Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed a British relief brigade.
After he killed about 13 British soldiers, a British detachment finally reached his position. Even while armed with his trusty sword, he was shot in the face, stabbed with a bayonette 13 times, and left in a pool of blood. However, when Whittemore was discovered, he was still alive and even tried to load his musket to fight again. Whittmore lived another 18 years and then died of natural causes at the age of 98.

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If a test says a MAN is pregnant, he may have CANCER!


There's a hormone called human chorionic gonadotrophin or hCG, which is produced by the developing embryo when women get pregnant. hCG helps control and regulate other development hormones. Because it appears so early into the pregnancy, it's used as an early indicator of pregnancy by over-the-counter pregnancy tests (the ones you pee on). However, some types of cancer, including testicular cancer, also produce hCG. This means that if men pee on that same pregnancy stick, and test positive, it might be an indicator that they have developed testicular cancer! This puts the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Junior" in a completely different perspective!


In the US, you can be TOO smart to be a policeman!

In 1999, a Federal judge dismissed lawsuit between Robert Jordan (a bachelor in Literature) and the New London police force. Jordan said he was rejected from the police force because he had tested too HIGH in the police department's aptitude tests. Jordan saw this as a kind of discrimination and sued on the basis that being rejected for being too smart is the same as being rejected for being of a different race or religion.
Jordan says that when he asked the person in charge of hiring why this was the case, he responded that the job of a policeman in New London can be very mundane, routine and boring. Having people with High IQs would increase the number of people quitting, because they would be too bored with the job, he told Jordan. After reviewing the case, the judge ruled that Robert Jordan hadn't been discriminated against, because he was treated the same way as everyone. ANYONE who scored too high on the tests was rejected, therefore he did not qualify for equal protection under Federal law.


Have fleas to kill? Use lemon extract!

The first thing to do is buy or make lemon extract. To make it, just thinly slice a lemon, put it in a small jar, and cover it with boiling water. Allow that to sit overnight and in the morning you can pour it into a spray bottle for use.
To treat your dog with it, all you need to do is apply the extract to your dog’s fur and rub it into the skin. You can use a spray bottle, but many dogs dislike those, so it’s best not to traumatize your furry friend. Don’t use it on cats, however, because they can be allergic to citrus.
As for the home, be sure to cover carpets, bedding, and furniture with it. Sure, you could just head out and go buy some flew remover, but why waste the money when you only need a few lemons and water?


Any North Koreans who escape to South Korea are awarded free citizenship.


In short, the South Korean government considers both North and South Koreans to be recognized as South Korean nationals. Basically, if someone from North Korea manages to get into South Korea, an evaluation can take place to award citizenship.
While North Koreans don’t necessarily have automatic protection, as criminals are not allowed to be naturalized, the bulk of North Koreans that can prove their North Korean citizenship can still be accepted. People can also become South Korean nationals by being born to a Korean parent (if the Korean parent is the mother, the person must have been born after June 13, 1998). Being abandoned as a child within South Korea is also grounds for citizenship. People can also simply apply for naturalization.

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The original design for Mount Rushmore depicted the four presidents from the waist up!


It's pretty difficult to deem Gutzon Borglum's initial vision for his colossal sculpture very feasible, considering it took over 14 years and nearly a million dollars just to carve out the presidents' faces! Regardless, a lack of funding forced the project to be scaled back to include only the heads of the former heads of state. This is probably a good thing though, because this preliminary design would have called for a sculpture well over 200 feet high. Oh, and if you're worried about the potential deterioration of this beloved national landmark, fear not - its estimated erosion rate is one inch every 1,000 years, so this mountain isn't due to be 'defaced' anytime soon!


Pornography was found in Osama bin Laden's hideout!


Sounds like someone's been Abbottabad...sexually explicit material was discovered within the al Qaeda leader's compound during the raid that led to his death! Officials would not confirm where the porn was found or to whom it is presumed to have belonged. Osama bin naughty? The world may never know.


Elephants are evolving without tusks because of poaching!


Before man had produced technologies such as high-caliber shotguns, it was evolutionarily favorable for male elephants to have large tusks. Bigger tusks used to provide elephant bulls a more powerful weapon with which to establish their masculine dominance. Tragically, this is no longer the case; in fact, it has become quite the opposite! Elephants with small to non-existent tusks are now often considered to be the "fittest" for survival because tusked males are more likely to be shot for their ivory. This outside pressure has increased the prevalence of tuskless genes in the overall elephant population, which means that baby elephants are more likely to be born with tusks that are small or absent. According to Dr. Zhang Li of Beijing Normal University, this effect is evidenced by an increase in the tusk-free gene from 2 to 5 percent of all Asian elephants to between 5 and 10 percent of Chinese elephants.


Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories per hour.


150 calories certainly isn’t very much, and banging one’s head against the wall for an hour would probably result in at least a concussion, but considering everything we do costs energy, it kind of makes sense.

Here's some other weird ways of burning calories:
Chewing gum
Raking leaves
Eating spicy food
Breathing through your nose
Taking a cold shower
Doing a cannonball
Giving your dog a bath
Licking a stamp


The Uno (card game) World Championship is regarded as one of the fiercest card game competitions.


The popular Uno card game was invented near Cincinnati in 1971. It is played with a specially printed deck and is in the Crazy Eights family of card games. A game is won by accumulating 500 points through several hands. When a player is down to only one card, s/he yells “Uno!” to warn other players. Some Uno decks have special cards or themes. In all there are more than 135 different themed Uno decks.
The Uno World Championship is held annually in Moscow, Russia. Over 71 countries compete in the championship and it is regarded as one of the fiercest card game competitions. Players are known for displays of extreme endurance and concentration needed for long games. In 2011 the finals took over 5 hours to finish.

Americans, on average, eat 90 acres of pizza every day


This means Americans eat around 350 slices per second. Other pizza facts:-
There are approximately 61,269 pizzerias in the United States.
Pizza came from matzo
Tomatoes were thought to be poisonous before being put on pizza
During Bill Clinton’s presidency, more pizza was ordered in the White House when the first lady was out.
The first US pizzeria opened up in 1905.


There is a brand of nail polish marketed to not just men, but manly men.


The company that makes it is called Alpha Nail. The company believes they can sell the nail polish by talking up the psychological benefits of wearing this polish. The psychological side of it describes how women are more attracted to men that stand out from the crowd instead of fitting in.
They describe this product as being the way to stand out in a confident way. Their product stands out because of the formula that also strengthens your nails and it is easy to remove. Many famous guys use it including Johnny Depp, Prince Harry, Dave Navarro, David Beckham, amongst others including fighters and other celebrities. Would you use nail polish, especially when you are about to fight someone? Tell us your thoughts in the comments!


Brazil couldn't afford to send their athletes to the 1932 Olympics. They found an ingenious way to send them

The 1932 Olympics, held in Los Angeles were historic for Brazil for a few reasons. First, is that the country had recently been hit by the Great Depression. The second, is that the Brazilian delegation included swimmer Maria Lenk, who was the FIRST South American woman to compete in the Olympics.
Because of the economic crisis, Brazil didn't have the money to send their athletes through traditional means. They came up with an ingenious solution: they sent them all on a boat filled with coffee and told them to sell it along the way to fund the trip! The ship, the Itaquice took them all the way to the Port of Los Angeles, where they were supposed to disembark.
Not all the athletes got their dream of participating in the Olympics, though. The port charged $1 per person to disembark, so the delegation only let the athletes that they thought would have a better chance at getting a medal off the boat, and also Maria Lenk. The ship then went to San Francisco to sell more coffee.
In the end, out of the 82 athletes that went, only 67 competed in the Olympics, and Brazil won NO medals at all. Maybe it was karma for not letting everyone out? How would you have felt if you were one of the 15 people left on board?

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The last two speakers of the language Ayapaneco won’t speak to each other.


Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquez from the town of Ayapa in Mexico are the last known speakers of the indigenous language Ayapaneco. Lately, they’ve been frustrating anthropologists because they refuse to talk to each other. Because of their mutual dislike, efforts by an Indiana University anthropologist to produce an Ayapaneco dictionary have come to a halt. Many of Mexico’s 68 native languages are in danger of becoming extinct thanks to the spread of Spanish education in the 20th century. Ayapaneco is one of the most endangered.


Men produce better sperm when watching porn depicting multiple men.

This actually holds true for males of many species. When surrounded by other competing males, an individual male’s sperm quality will increase to compensate for the competition. This increases his likelihood of procreating. In a study, heterosexual men provided semen samples while looking at explicit pictures of either two men with a woman or three women. Though the sperm counts didn’t differ between the two testing groups, the men looking at the images of two men produced higher quality sperm.


A man claimed to have been President of the United States for a day.


Democrat David Rice Atchinson served as a U.S. Senator from 1843 to 1855. It was normal at the time for the Senate to elect a 'president pro tempore' to serve in the absence of the vice president, and Atchinson was elected to this position on 13 separate occasions. The president pro tempore also followed the vice president in the presidential line of succession at that time.
Until the 1930s, a president's term officially began at noon on March 4th. In 1849, however, March 4th fell on a Sunday, so Zachary Taylor chose to delay his inauguration an extra day. Atchinson claimed that the title of president fell to HIM during this 24-hour period, since the outgoing president's term had expired and President Taylor had yet to have been sworn in!
Nevertheless, Atchinson's claim does not hold much water. Even if you disregard the fact that no one recognized him as president during that period, there is one detail that sinks his whole argument. March 4th is also the day on which the Congressional term expires! Therefore, he would have no more right to the presidency than outgoing president James Polk!


Selective mutism is more common than autism.

Studies in California and Israel have shown that seven out of every 1000 children has selective mutism. Selective mutism (SM) is a condition in which children are unable to speak in certain situations (like school), even though they know how to speak. It’s commonly associated with anxiety, and is often misdiagnosed as autism, mental retardation, or oppositional-defiant disorder. SM has a prevalence rate of 7.1 per 1000, making it more common than autism (0.5 per 1000), major depressive disorder (0.4-3.0 per 1000), Tourette’s (0.5 per 1000), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (0.5-1.0 per 1000).


Your eye muscles move 100,000 times every day.


If your legs moved that much, you’d end up traveling 50 miles. The eye muscles have a special protein that keeps them from experiencing fatigue from moving so quickly. If you looked at someone’s eyes, you’ll notice that they never really stay still. Eyes are always moving.


If you fall asleep within 5 minutes of lying down, you are likely to be suffering from severe sleep deprivation.


This is also true if you feel drowsy throughout the day. Even if whatever you are doing is boring, it should not cause to you become tired. Oftentimes, sleep-deprived individuals experience brief episodes of sleep throughout the day called ‘microsleeps’ - frequently they are not even aware these episodes are occurring!


The indentation that runs between your nose and the top of your upper lip is called a philtrum.



It used to be commonplace for people to wear pubic wigs.


There’s a name for a wig that you put on your pubic region. It’s called a “merkin”. It’s unusual now, but this was an especially common practice among prostitutes and other people who engaged in a lot of sexual activity. It’s a good way to cover up sores from STD’s. Also, since syphilis was often treated by shaving the pubic region or treating it with mercury (which causes hair loss), the merkin served as a replacement for all that missing pubic hair. Merkins also saw some use for the same reasons that people wear wigs, i.e. baldness or wanting have a different hair color.

Al Capone ran a soup kitchen.


During the Great Depression, Al Capone decided to soften up his image by opening up a free soup kitchen for displaced workers in Chicago. This was part of a publicity campaign; Capone wanted to make sure that he had the approval of the struggling working class during that period of economic distress.

Horseback Riding carries higher injury rate than motorcycle riding!


Maybe it would be safer if Prince Charming rolled in on a Motocross instead. An estimated 30 million Americans ride horses annually, and more than 23 000 riders under the age of 25 have been hospitalized per year as a result.
Most injuries result from falls, and can have severe and often fatal consequences. This rate of injury is higher than that of motorcycling. On average, motorcyclists suffer once every 7000 hours of riding, whereas horseback riders have an accident about once every 350 hours.
This is probably due to the fact that a horse can weigh up to 15 000 pounds and stand as tall as 3 meters high. Both types of riders should wear helmets and knee-pads when participating in their activity.


“Fall Out Boy” was named after a Simpsons character!

Both are extremely famous, both are entertaining and addictive, but who would have thought that they have anything to do with one another. After all, Fall out Boy is an American pop punk band from Wilmette, Illnois. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom from Fox Broadcasting Company.
Well turns out that the band was nameless for their first two shows. Whether it was out of appreciation for their audience or just desperation, the then- nameless band let the audience at the end of their second performance yell out their ideas for a name.
One member suggested “Fall-out Boy” as a reference to the sidekick of Radioactive man from The Simpsons. The rest was history. But the connections don’t just end there; the band went on to perform the closing theme song for the 2009 Simpsons episode “Lisa the Drama Queen.”


Asparagus used to be given to pilots to boost their night vision and attract fish to be caught!


Asparagus actually contains chemicals that pass through the body and attract fish through our urine. The asparagus has been used for centuries as food. The ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians all used the plant.
They dried the stems to use in the winter and cooked them and ate them raw in the summer. Asparagus has few calories, is full of antioxidants, and contains vitamins A, B6, C, E, and K. Its high levels of potassium actually helps slow down calcium loss in the body and is thought to aid in heart disease.
U.S. pilots were given asparagus in their ration kits in the Pacific Ocean region. They were working for the US spy organization called the Office of Strategic Services. It is really quite clever. Asparagus contains mercaptan, which is a highly attractive chemical.
The idea was that should the pilots be shot down, they could eat the asparagus and the mercaptan chemical would pass through their urine. The pilot could pee in the water and the mercaptan in their urine would attract fish to the area and they could catch them easier and have food to eat.



There was a 700 year old statue of Buddha made of 5 tons of solid gold that no one knew about.


Wat Traimit Witthayaram, or the Temple of the Golden Buddha, is a buddhist temple in Bangkok. The Golden Buddha is 4 meters high and 3 meters wide (from the farthest apart points, the knees). The entire thing is cast in 5 tons of solid gold. It might seem unusual that such an impressive statue could go unnoticed. When Bangkok was established as the new capital of Thailand, the recovery of many Buddha statues was encouraged. Many of them were transported to Bangkok.
In the early 19th century, a huge Buddha statue made of brown clay was installed in a temple. In the early 20th century, the temple was abandoned and deserted until 1957 when the East Asiatic Company took over the premises.
Of the two Buddha statues in the temple, one was transferred to the Wat Traimit Witthayaram. When that statue was being hoisted up, it slipped and fell to the ground. It turns out the statue was only covered in clay and lacquer, and was actually 5 tons of gold. The fall had shattered all the clay to pieces, revealing the gold. So in the end, it was one of the more fortunate outcomes of something accidentally falling and breaking to pieces.



A fake neighborhood was built in Seattle during WWII!


The whole fake neighborhood was built atop a Boeing factory south of downtown Seattle, and was the cumulative size of eight football fields. Houses, streets, and plants were assembled out of ply wood, cardboard, etc. to act as props and give the town the most convincing appearance possible.
The thought was that if any Japanese bombers made it this far east, they would confuse the plant for a quiet residential neighborhood, and as a result, not bomb it. The workers at the plant had to use secret underground tunnels to reach nearby and also disguised cafeterias, classrooms, etc. Just another example of how war changes the landscape of a country.

Cotton candy, notoriously bad for the teeth, was co-invented by a dentist.


William James Morrison was a dentist, lawyer, and author from Nashville, Tennessee in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Because he became President of the Tennessee State Dental Association in 1894 and wrote several children’s books, it might seem a little odd that he would go on to invent cotton candy.
Dr. Morrison patented several inventions in the food department. He developed a process for extracting the oil from cottonseeds and converting it to lard substitute, and even figured out a chemical process to purify the public drinking water in Nashville.
In 1897, he and a Nashville candy maker named John C. Wharton conceived and co-patented an “electric candy machine” which produced what was then called Fairy Floss and today is called Cotton Candy. The product was brought to the public in 1904 and became a huge instant success.


In 1962, mass laughter shut down 14 schools and affected 1000 people in Tanzania!


The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass hysteria or mass psychogenic illness rumored to have occurred in or near the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in the modern nation of Tanzania near the border of Kenya.The laughter epidemic began on January 30, 1962, at a mission-run boarding school for girls in Kashasha. The laughter started with three girls and spread haphazardly throughout the school, affecting 95 of the 159 pupils, aged 12–18.
Symptoms lasted from a few hours to 16 days in those affected. The teaching staff were not affected but reported that students were unable to concentrate on their lessons. The school was forced to close down on March 18, 1962. After the school was closed and the students were sent home, the epidemic spread to Nshamba, a village that was home to several of the girls.In April and May, 217 people had laughing attacks in the village, most of them being school children and young adults.
The Kashasha school was reopened on May 21 only to be closed again at the end of June. In June, the laughing epidemic spread to Ramashenye girls’ middle school, near Bukoba, affecting 48 girls. The school from which the epidemic sprang was sued and the children and parents transmitted it to the surrounding area. Other schools, Kashasha itself, and another village, comprising thousands of people, were all affected to some degree. Six to eighteen months after it started, the phenomenon died off. The following symptoms were reported on an equally massive scale as the reports of the laughter itself: pain, fainting, flatulence, respiratory problems, rashes, attacks of crying, and random screaming. In total 14 schools were shut down and 1000 people were affected.


Luminaries like Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and Benjamin Franklin advocated for simplified spelling!

Homophones are words that sound the same but mean different things, such as creak and creek or threw and through. They are also words that are spelled the same but mean different things as in fair, which can be used like “I went to the fair and rode the ferris wheel,” or “He received a fair trial.” Homophones alone can be tricky and confusing. Then, there is the problem of simplified spelling. There is a proper way to spell words, but some words have a simplified and alternate version of spelling. Take the word “through.” It can be spelled “thru,” though this is an informal spelling.
The dictionary does acknowledge this simplified spelling as an alternative. The simplified spelling will be understood, but it will also portray that you aren’t a very serious person or even well educated if you use it. Luminaries like Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and Benjamin Franklin supported the simplified spelling of words. For example, changing through to thru, night to nite, and though to tho. Theodore Roosevelt even tried to mandate that government documents use the simple spelling during his time in office as President.


In the first 10 year of the Tour de France, many of the cyclists cheated by taking buses and trains instead of cycling!


On the July 1, 1903, 60 cyclists set off from Paris. After more than 2400 kilometers of cycling, at an average speed of 25.7 kmh, they returned to Paris on the July 19th, in a competition won by Maurice Garin of France. The Tour de France had been born. The race was threatened in 1904-1914 by an extraordinary amount of cheating, with spectators eagerly trying to ensure that certain contestants failed to finish, and several contestants taking buses and trains instead of cycling, but the race struggled on through these difficult years and mountains were introduced to the circuit in 1905.
Apart from the war years of 1915-1918 and 1940-1946 the Tour de France has taken place every year since. By 2000, the number of participants had increased to 200, the distance covered to 3,660 kilometers, and the average speed to 39.6 kmh. There are now 20 stages instead of the six longer stages that made up the very first race. But that is in no way to detract from those early racers, when both roads and equipment were much inferior to those found today. The Tour de France is now watched all around the world, with an audience that includes many non-cyclists, and is perhaps the greatest mainstream endurance event there is.


Scientifically speaking, women stay angry longer than men do after an argument!


Strong emotions start with physiological changes in your body. The heart rate increases, adrenaline surges, and muscles tighten; all before you realize you’re angry. Men and women generally get angry at the same rate of speed, according to neurobiologists. In women, however, it takes a bit longer for nervous system to settle down and return to normal than it does for men. This means that after an argument, a man can cool down pretty quickly, while the woman needs a little extra time.
Her body remains in an agitated state even after resolution to the argument. While still in the agitated state, her brain in still angry and casts blame on other things. The argument then flares up again about a new subject. So, the best thing for a man to do is to change the subject to something more light hearted once things wind down in the argument to help her chill out. As for women, they have to realize what is going on inside of them and give themselves a chance to shake it off.

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Goldfish were originally grayish green or brown.


Goldfish are just the domesticated version of carp. Natural genetic mutations caused some of them to have gold skin, and the Chinese used to raise them as pets and specifically breed the gold-tinted mutant carp, during the Tang Dynasty. The Prussian carp is the wild version of modern goldfish. It's usually gray, but some of the early mutations that led to modern goldfish still occur, causing yellow-tinted carp.



In 1518 there was a DANCING PLAGUE in Strasbourg, France. 400 people danced uncontrollably for A MONTH, dozens of lives were lost and NO ONE KNOWS WHY.


It all started when a woman named Frau Troffea decided to start dancing in the streets in July of 1518. What ensued was an inexplicable city-wide dancing craze, where hundreds took to street dancing. By the end of the month-long dance-off dozens had died from heart attacks, strokes, and exhaustion. Scientists to this day have no explanation for why this happened.
Theories suggest that people were suffering from mass hysteria brought on by distressing conditions, or that they were being punished by the wrath of Saint Vitus, or that people had been consuming a chemical with similar properties to LSD.


A man was accidentally stabbed through the skull with an iron rod. He lived 11 more years after the accident.


When Phineas Gage was a railroad worker in 1848 a bizarre accident nearly took his life. When handling explosive materials with a tool called a "tamping iron" (a 3-foot iron pole) sparks started flying. Phineas turned away for a second, just as an explosion launched the pole straight through his head.
The pointy end of the pole entered his head through the left cheekbone under his eye, went through his brain, and went out through the middle of his forehead. After the pole went through his head, Phineas walked home to tell his landlord and then went to see a doctor.
Though he survived, people said that his behavior was very different after the accident. Rumor has it that Phineas appeared at famous showman P.T. Barnum's Museum, to show off his injury, carrying with him the 3 foot pole that went through his head. Check out a real picture of Phineas Gage with the 3 foot pole that went through his head!
Phineas suffered severe convulsions for the rest of his life and died 11 years after his accident. Historians refer to his unusual circumstances as "the American Crowbar Case", despite the accident not actually involving a crowbar.


The opposite sides of dice always add up to seven.


As you can see in the picture, the 1 is on the opposite side of the 6, the 2 is on the opposite side of the 5, and the 3 is on the opposite side of the 4. Also, there are three different ways to get to 7 when you roll 2 dice, which means that a 7 is the most common outcome when you roll 2 dice.

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Every year, dogs kill more people in the US than Great White sharks have in the past 100 years.


Overall, dogs kill more people in the US every year than sharks do. You are more likely to be killed by a dog than by a shark, and you are much more likely to be bitten by a dog than bitten by a shark. There has only been one confirmed fatal shark attack in the US in 2009. Compare that to 25 deaths in the US caused by dogs in that same year.


The ostrich lays the largest eggs on land but, the whale shark lays the largest eggs IN THE WORLD.


An egg from a whale shark measuring 14 inches in diameter was found in the Gulf of Mexico in 1953.
Those giant whale shark eggs grow up to be really big sharks. Whale sharks are the largest sharks in the world, and therefore the largest fish in the world too. The largest whale shark ever found was 40 feet, 7 inches.


The fastest creature on the planet is the Peregrine Falcon. It can dive out of the sky at over 200 km/h (124 mph)!


Peregrine falcons live everywhere. They are on every continent (except Antarctica, which is pretty much the exception to everything). Also, while they tend to prefer living in the planes, they also have been known to inhabit urban environments, jumping off of buildings and eating pigeons.

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Bill Gates back in 1981 allegedly said that nobody would ever need more than 640 kilobytes of memory on their personal computer.

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Yes folks, you CAN die laughing.

Alex Mitchell, a of 50-year-old builder of King's Lynn, England, literally died laughing while he was watching an episode of The Goodies. After twenty minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally collapsed on the sofa and died.


African elephants are pregnant for 22 months.


Danish alchemist Tycho Brahe had a nose made out of silver and gold. His original nose was cut off during a fight in college.




Dolly Parton lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.

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Dolly Parton showed up to a Dolly Parton lookalike contest on Santa Monica Boulevard, as a joke. She was surprised when it turned out that she didn't win, since that means that the judges thought someone else looked more like her than herself.
"I didn't know if they knew it or not and if it was a joke because they used to have all these Dollys down on Santa Monica Boulevard.
They had the contest and I just got in the line and somebody else won. I don't think they really did know it was me"

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Thomas CRAPPER popularized the toilet.


He didn't invent the toilet, but his company, Crapper & Co, was a popular plumbing company in the late 1800s. In the 1880s Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey all had Crapper brand products. Crapper also patented a lot of toilet innovations, including the flushing mechanism that is still being used today. Among some of his less successful patents was an early version of an automatic flushing mechanism. Unfortunately, the spring that triggered the flusher also sent the seat flying up to smack people on their backsides!


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In 2010, Carrier Pigeons were faster than broadband for video delivery!


The premise of this test was to see if our modern technology is actually as efficient as we think, and the results proved us slightly arrogant. Carrier pigeons have been used for thousands of years to deliver messages to places far away that needed information faster than humans are able to travel.
Today such methods have become obsolete with the development of cars and the Internet, but perhaps they shouldn’t be discounted so soon. Ten pigeons had USBs attached to their legs and were sent on a roughly two hour, 120 km journey to deliver the file. At the same time, researchers began downloading a 300MB video file.
Surprisingly, by the time the pigeons arrived at their destination, the file had only been downloaded 24%!
Those who carried out the experiment say their purpose was not to attempt to implement carrier pigeons again, but to highlight how uneven the Internet is throughout Britain. In fact, the same experiment was carried out in South Africa with even more abysmal results for technology!

An Olympic gold medalist almost died in a plane crash. Took TWO years to be able to walk again and went on to win another gold medal!


Betty Robinson was born in 1911 in Riverdale, Illinois. She ran her first 100-meter race at the age of sixteen and came in second only to the American record holder! The next time she ran, she equaled or surpassed the world record, but was not formally recognized. She attended the Amsterdam Olympics and not only won the gold medal, but shattered the world record.
She seemed to be on top of the world until in 1931, tragedy struck. While flying, something in the plane malfunctioned and it crashed. Robinson was found among the wreckage in a severe coma and was believed to be dead. The civilian that discovered her was so convinced that he stuck her in his truck and drove her body to an undertaker, who discovered she was still alive.
Seven months later she woke up, but the process of recovery was much slower. It took six months until she could even stand out of her wheelchair, and two years until she was able to walk. She missed the 1932 Olympics, and in 1936 was still unable to kneel for the start of the race, but decided to compete anyway and fulfilled the definition of resilience by winning herself a second Olympic gold!

James Bond Facts

Ian Fleming made James Bond's weapon of choice a 'lady's gun.' He changed it once a fan wrote to him.

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The Beretta 418 pistol was James Bond’s gun of choice until a fan wrote Ian Fleming a letter saying it was a lady’s gun. The Beretta M418 is a 6.35 mm Italian 'pocket pistol,' which was first introduced between 1919 and 1922. It's so small you can fit it in the palm of your hand. While the fan said it was a lady's gun, it was actually pretty popular among high ranking Italian officers during World War II. However, due to the size, it's really underpowered for real combat.

It was a relatively popular gun and Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond series, originally had it as Bond’s gun of choice. Fleming stuck with the gun for some time until the Dr. No movie was to be released and he received a letter from a fan criticizing its use. The fan said the Beretta was 'a lady’s gun' and suggested the Walther PPK as a replacement. Fleming liked the man’s suggestion. The way he did it was he wrote a character in called Major Boothroyd, who was 'the greatest small-arms expert in the world' and insisted Bond replace his gun with the Walther PPK.


One of the Bond Girls Was Born a Man!


One of the Bond Girls, Caroline Cossey, was actually born as Barry Kenneth Cossey. She is now an English model and perhaps most popular for being the first transsexual person to pose for Playboy.
Courtney fought for her right to be legally considered a woman, and triumphed. She began her hormone therapy at 17, and a few years later, had a full sex reassignment surgery. Barry was somewhat feminine growing up, because he had a condition called Klinefelter's syndrome.
People with Klinefelter's usually have two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome. In Cossey's case, he had three X chromosomes instead. He never got along with boys and his closest companion was his sister.
Courtney was cast as an extra in the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only." The tabloid News of the World responded by doing what they had threatened to for years; revealing that she was transsexual. This brought her modeling and acting career to a halt until she decided to fight the assault. In 1982, Cossey retaliated with her first auto-biography; I Am a Woman.


James Bond has killed over 150 men and slept with 44 women so far!

This is since James Bond's creation in 1962. 3/4 of the women he's slept with have tried to kill him! Funnily enough, James Bond's favorite drink, the Martini (shaken, not stirred) contains about 130 calories, which is about how much he burns when having sex!


Liam Neeson refused to be James Bond because he didn't want to star in Action Movies!


Liam Neeson was reportedly offered the role of James Bond in 1995s Goldeneye. He reportedly turned it down because he wasn't interested in starring in action movies! Of course, he would revert that decision only 4 years later when he starred in Star Wars, Episode I. He must have really regretted it because he also showed a particular set of skills in his 2008 movie Taken that would have made him a great 007.
It's interesting to think, though, what could have been if Liam Neeson had been James Bond, instead of Pierce Brosnan. Interestingly enough, on the list of rejected actors for the role of Bond is Robert Pattison "because his image of being dirty and possibly his age."

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Pus is just dead white blood cells!

Ever had a cut that began oozing white pus or even a pimple and you just shrugged it off as something that happens? Have you ever wondered what exactly that white stuff is? While it’s certainly disgusting to look at, it’s actually much less gross than most people think and is a sign that your body is overcoming an infection.
It can be several different colors other than white, including yellow or even green. When you’re body has an infection, white blood cells rush to the area to fight the foreign bacteria. A battle of sorts ensues and most of the time the white blood cells are victorious. The dead white blood cells are pushed to the surface with any bacteria that is still alive that needs to be pushed out of the body.
The pus is a mixture of both the white blood cells called neutrophils and some the minimal bacteria that’s still alive. If it’s a small amount of pus, such as a pimple, it just needs to be wiped clean and washed and you’re good as new.

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More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.

To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles…that’s where the word “testimony” comes from.

Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.

In just about every species of mammal, the female lives longer than the male.

Cats’ urine glows under a black light.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.

Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Iguanas have two penises!

Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.

A chameleon's tongue is LONGER than its body.



A chameleon can use its tongue to snag prey from a distance the equivalent of 1 and a half times its body length. Not only that, but their tongues move so fast that they violate the general rules for muscle propulsion. The chameleon's tongue shoots out of its mouth at 13.4 miles per hour, and it accelerates from 0 to 20 feet per second in about 20 milliseconds. That's a rate that's faster than any muscle can possibly move, and scientists needed to use high-speed videos and x-rays to calculate it.
The chameleon tongue work like a bow and arrow. It can exceed the normal limitations of muscle movement by holding its tongue back with an elastic tissue, and then firing the tongue out when it builds up enough tension. Scientists refer to it as a "catapult".


Snail mucus trails are so effective that they can travel across the edge of a razor without injury.


Snails and slugs (snails without shells) are the only mollusks that live on land, and like their cousins that live in the sea, they need to stay moist at all times. That's why the fastest way to kill them is pouring salt on them so that they dry out. They leave a trail of mucus when they walk so that they can move across dry surfaces without losing moisture, and as a side benefit they can slide across sharp edges, like razors, without getting damaged. The slime that they produce also makes it really hard for predators to grip them in their mouths.


Hawaii is moving toward Japan at a rate of about 4 inches per year.

Through satellite images we can see that the Island of Maui, Hawaii had been gradually moving toward Japan at a rate of 3 inches per year since 1976. Plate tectonic theory predicts that the plate that Hawaii is on will continue to move Hawaii in that direction at a rate of 4 inches per year.
The Earth's crust is constantly moving. The Earth's surface is made up of large moving plates. Shifts in the plates have caused massive earthquakes. For instance, the Pacific Plate and the Eurasian Plate collided under the Japanese islands in 1923, causing an earthquake that killed 100,000 people.


Most people (65%) tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left.



Traffic lights were invented BEFORE cars and electricity, and they used to EXPLODE.


The first traffic lights were installed in front of the British House of Parliament in 1868. Engineer John Peake Knight designed the traffic light to regulate horse-drawn carriage traffic.
He modeled it after the semaphore system used in British railways, with an arm that goes up and down to indicate whether to stop or go. At night, when it was too dark to see the arms, the traffic signal would switch to using red and green gas lamps.
In order to work, the first traffic light had to have a policeman standing by it at all times to switch the stop and go signals. Once, one of the gas lamps exploded, injuring the police officer. The whole project was immediately scrapped, and traffic lights weren't used again for another 40 years.

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Stephen King had an embarrassing book signing because employees thought he was a vandal!


Stephen King started an impromptu book signing at Alice Springs book store in Australia. The problem was that the employees didn’t realize who he was and that he was signing his own books. They mistook him for a vandal. Later, the employees said King was nice and charming. They said they’d have baked him a cake had they known he was coming to their book store.
Many of Stephen King’s novels have been adapted to films. He’s written Carrie, The Shining, and Misery. Most of the books he signed at the book store are being donated to charity. King’s representative in Australia said he wasn’t aware King was even in the country at the time of the signing. The manager of the book store said that it isn’t uncommon for authors to come into the store and see if their work is on the shelves. It is really embarrassing if they don’t have the author’s work.


Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, originally intended to work for Disney


He started off in cartoon network working on Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, and Johnny Bravo. He was the most involved with Johny Bravo, because of how easy it was for him to develop his own style. He also did some freelance for Walt Disney writing for the TV shows “Jungle Cubs” and “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”.
When executives at Fox saw his work, they were immediately interested. They gave him a budget of $50,000 to develop an entirely new cartoon to show on prime-time. They loved the story of Family Guy and they’ve kept him ever since January 1999.


Steve Jobs is Homer Simpson’s Uncle!

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Homer Simpson’s mother, Mona Simpson was named after Steve Jobs’ biological sister, Mona Simpson. You might think it’s all coincidence, but actually she was named after Steve Jobs’ biological sister, her husband, Richard Appel, was a writer on the show! Mona Simpson was first on the show on the episode “Mother Simpson”. Mona and Richard divorced later.


In The Godfather (1972), John Marley (Jack Wolz) scream of horror in the horse head scene was real!


He was not told that a real horse head, which was obtained from a dog food company, was going to be used.
Something similar happened in Back to the Future when Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) drank real booze while thinking it was water.


Hi my name is: Brhadaranyakopanishadvivekachudamani Erreh Muñoz!


Despite the name being in Hindi, the name is actually from a kid in Coahuila, Mexico. The name was given by his grandfather, the first part of the name means; “The man converts into what he is born”.

Henry Ford paid his employees 3 times as much as anyone else to boost productivity!


When he built the Model T, Ford's idea was that he wanted to build a car that was cheap enough that his employees would be able to buy it. At the time, most people working factory jobs made $11 a week. Ford paid his employees $5 a day.
The reason he did this was that he thought that by paying his employees that much more, he would reduce the amount of people who quit. That would let the employee get really good at what he did, since training a new worker takes so much time.
Ford's model became incredibly successful and he revolutionized not just the auto industry, but manufacturing in general. The combination of high pay, high efficiency jobs with cheap consumer goods was called Fordism and was adopted all over the world.

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Crying women are scientifically unsexy.


Weeping releases a chemical that reduces sexual arousal in men. The chemical releases a signal that says they are not interested in romance at the moment, which men instinctively respond to by shutting down feelings of arousal. To be specific, this refers to deeply emotional tears, not those caused by getting something in the eye, or a moderately sad movie.
Typically, those arousal-killing chemicals are only released during full emotional weeping. Neuroscientist Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, put together an experiment to test this. Sobel collected jars of tears from women and dipped pads in them.
They placed the pads under men's noses and showed them pictures of women. The men smelling tears rated the faces as less attractive when compared to men who did not smell tears. To support it scientifically, their testosterone levels were measured, and, not surprisingly, they dropped.


There’s a disease that causes people to eat their own hands!


It’s called Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, or LNS, and it has become famous for the particularly disturbing aspect of self-mutilation it causes. First officially documented in 1964, it is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase produced by a mutation on the gene HPRT.
It affects about one in every 380,000 births. Symptoms emerge between two and three years of age with simply strange behavior. Self-mutilation however, begins around age three. Sufferers usually begin biting their lips and tongue, and as the disease progresses, afflicted individuals will move to their hands, and in extreme cases, head banging.
Compulsive behaviors such as vomiting, spitting, and involuntary swearing also result from the disease, and while it can be controlled in certain ways, there is no standard treatment for LNS.


Marvel created a superhero whose only power was being immortal.


His name is Mr. Immortal and he is one of the more curious superheroes Marvel developed. First introduced in 1989, Mr. Immortal was in a group of superheroes called the Great Lakes Avengers who were a smaller and much less talented offshoot of the more famous Avengers. His catchphrase was, “All you're threatening me with is death. And dying's what I do best!"
While the idea of being immortal sounds glamorous, the character was anything but. Mr. Immortal first discovered his superpower when he tried to commit suicide and was unable to succeed. Mr. Immortal became increasingly depressed as the series went on as he continually observed his loved ones pass away.
After much suffering, he would try to have himself killed in increasingly bizarre ways such as being crushed by a boulder, burned alive, self-impaled on giant novelty scissors, a bear trap, a cannon, a chainsaw, piranhas, ferrets, a spear, and even a python! If you were unable to die, what would be your favorite and least favorite parts of it?


A Biologist created a "Unicorn Bull" in the 1930s.


Dr. W.F. Dove made quite a splash with his "Unicorn Bull" in 1933. He was a biologist at the University of Maine, and was experimenting with trying to create a unicorn bull. What he did is he took a calf, and he removed the tissue parts that would become its horns and transplanted them to the center of the forehead.
Dr. Dove's experiment was a success, and the bull grew a massive horn in the middle of its forehead. The growth had some unexpected consequences. Reports say that the animal was able to recognize the power of having a single horn. This allowed him to pass under fences and barriers and a way to more easily reach in it's attacks. These benefits also had another consequence, it was actually pretty mild mannered. The bull knew how much of a beast it was, and therefore didn't need to prove anything to anyone.



Hitler structured the Holocaust largely after the Armenian Genocide.


It is often called the “Forgotten Holocaust,” because it is so little known outside of academic circles, but the Armenian Massacres, or Armenian Genocide, is actually the second most heavily studied genocide next to the holocaust, and was the blueprint for Adolf Hitler’s plan of mass extermination.
Carried out by the Ottoman Empire, deaths are estimated to be as high as two million. Tensions between the Turks and Armenians were tense since the Ottomans formally occupied their territory in the 15th century. While under occupation, the Armenians were constantly exploited and treated as second-class citizens, much like the Jews in Germany.
Tension escalated until mass killings began. Men, women, and children were routinely rounded up, forced on excruciating marches, tortured, beaten, starved, raped, and eventually killed. 20 countries formerly accept the Armenian massacres as genocide, yet the Turkish government still refuses to acknowledge what occurred.

Morgan Freeman wears an earring because of pirates!


Morgan Freeman may have one of the most famous voices in Hollywood, but most people don’t know that he is also an avid sailor and when not on screen, it’s rare to find him not wearing an earring.
Now, most people would wonder what being a sailor and wearing an earring have to do with each other. The answer is probably more than you think! In an interview, Freeman said that he wears an earring because he watched a pirate movie as a child and always thought it was “sexy.” When he grew up he developed a passion for sailing.
Freeman describes himself as an adventurer and loves the idea that if he were to die somewhere foreign, he would always be able to pay for the funeral with gold or diamonds in his earring, which is a major reason why pirates wore earrings! Both sailors and pirates began wearing earring to mark where they had traveled to.
Much like Boy Scouts and their badges, earrings were used to commemorate feats such as first crossing the equator or rounding particularly dangerous waters such as Cape Horn. They also had superstitious motives. Many believed that the metals in earrings would ward off disease or bad luck.
The most famous reason for wearing an earring however was for funeral purposes. Pirates always tried to have some sort of rare metal in their ear because if they were to die in a foreign land they would always have a way to pay for the funeral!


The KGB tried to convince the third world that the CIA invented the AIDS virus!


It was called Operation: INFEKTION, and it was a campaign to spread false information that the United States invented HIV/AIDS and dispersed it throughout various populations.
The Soviets did this in an attempt to undermine the credibility of the Americans abroad and instill sympathies for themselves among native populations. This campaign was surprisingly successful. Many native populations believed American military bases were a major cause of the outbreak of the disease and were already wary of foreigners.
Historians believe the Soviets were also attempting to distract foreign powers from their own offensive biological warfare program. It is believed that the Soviet Union used variations of anthrax, tularemia, the plague, and cholera!

A couple has been traveling for 25 continuous years in the same car!


Their names are Emil and Liliana Schmidt and they are currently listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the “Longest Driven Journey,” covering over 640,000 kilometers!
The couple began their journey back in 1982 with little else besides a Toyota Land Cruiser. After 26 years they continue on covering nearly every country, but have encountered some problems. After twenty years, any car would begin to falter if it was being used so heavily, and the Scmidt’s was no different.
While on a stop in Borneo they completely rebuilt their car and continued on their journey rather than procure a newer car. They have also gone through 166 flat tires and consumed 31 batteries, 138 spark plugs, 22 air filters and 54 shock absorbers!


In 2010 a man was rejected from becoming a foreign ambassador due to an unfortunate mistranslation.

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Imagine you’re in charge of hiring the new ambassador from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, when you get an application from a professional, highly trustworthy and experienced applicant. Surely you would pick him?
The applicant in question is Akbar Zeb. He has been the Pakistani ambassador to 3 countries before, but none of them has Arabic as their official language. In Arabic, Akbar Zeb translates to ‘biggest d***’. Because they did not want to have to announce his name on television, Akbar was turned down from the job. What other unfortunate names have you heard of?


Napoleon offered for his men to shoot him after he escaped exile. None did.


Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the most famous military tacticians and politicians of all time, but he is also regarded for the loyalty he inspired in his troops. While he had many enemies throughout France, those who were loyal to Napoleon were die-hard advocates.
Subduing Napoleon was an extremely difficult problem for the French government, causing him to be exiled twice after escaping the first time. Napoleon had been cast off to the Isle of Elba in the hope that he would not return. Unfortunately, being Napoleon, he escaped his imprisonment and gathered troops, whom he organized and marched back to Paris to once again overthrow the French monarchy.
After escaping, Napoleon approached the men that were sent to arrest him, and alone in front of an entire regiment said, “Soldiers of the 5th. You can shoot your emperor if you dare!” After ripping his coat open for emphasis, Napoleon remained alive and proceeded to travel to the French capital, seizing it once again and gathering a force of nearly 300,000 men within a month.


A decapitated head stays alive for up to 30 seconds!

People have long debated the question of whether a human head remains alive after it is decapitated from the body, and research tends to point toward the fact that it does. Throughout history there have been many reports of movements after decapitation, or even words attempting to be spoken.
Anne Boleyn is said to have continued to pray after a sword took her head off. French philosopher and scientist Antoine Lavoisier was to be beheaded during the French Revolution, yet was curious as to whether a person is still conscious after their head is severed.
He asked his friends to look at his eyes and observe how long he could blink. He is reported to have exceeded 15 seconds before his eyes finally became still. So if there are all of these reports, why is this new information? The question has always been debated whether eyes continue to move simply out of reflex or whether a person is actually still conscious.
Scientists have recently discovered that since a healthy brain will function until it dies from a lack of oxygen, a brain could technically function until blood ceases to stop flowing completely, which would be several seconds after the brain is disconnected from the heart!

Allied forces dropped dummies to trick German armies!


They’re called paradummies and were first used during World War II. Their purpose was to make an air invasion seem much more daunting than it actually was, and they were extremely successful. While both sides used the dummies, the British were the ones who perfected the technique.
The most famous time paradummies were used was on June 6, 1944 called Operation Titanic. In the early hours of the morning 500 dummies were dropped in four different locations. Attached to the dummies were rifle fire simulators and two teams of Special Air Service soldiers who carried loud battle noise recordings.
Their intent was to push German troops away from the Allies actual drop zones, which they accomplished. Unfortunately, only two of the soldiers that were not dummies escaped when the Germans rushed at who they assumed were enemy soldiers.


There is a breed of dog that can climb trees, flex its spine like a cat, and use a singing howl instead of a bark.


It is known as the New Guinea Singing Dog, named for its unique howl. Presently, almost nothing is known about them in their native habitat. No photographs even exist of them in the wild. These dogs are often kept as companions because of their intelligence and physical abilities.
Like coyotes and wolves, these dogs often howl together in what is called “chorus howling.” Most of the time, the dogs howl with very good synchronization and end at the same time. Their legs and paws are much more flexible than regular dogs, to the point of being able to climb trees, albeit not as well as a fox or cat. Because of this, they are notorious escape artists.
They can climb and jump like a cat, and even get over fences as easily as squirrels. Though they generally avoid people and aren't very easy to domesticate, they're still quite a spectacle.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

More info: The pig was wearing human clothes, afforded an elaborate trial, and even given legal representation

In 1924, Pep, 'the Cat Murdering Dog' was sentenced to life in prison in Pennsylvania for murdering the governor's wife's cat.


Semen travels at 28 mph.

More info: Once sperm enter the vagina, they slow down like four lanes merging into one: It takes 5 minutes for them to travel the 6 inches to the cervix and can take up to 72 hours to reach an egg.

Also, the average erect penis is 6.21 inches, and a man will produce 14 gallons of semen in his lifetime - enough to fill up the tank of a car.


'Jedi' is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers.


More info: Most of the 70,509 people who wrote Jedi on their census forms were suspected to have done so in response to an e-mail encouraging all Star Wars fans to get it recognized as an official religion.
A source said, 'When you look at it you probably have got about 5,000 people in that 70,000 that were true hard-core people that would believe the Jedi religion carte blanche,'

White bread was the original pencil eraser.

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Before erasers were invented, people used a rolled up piece of white bread to erase graphite. Some artists still use bread today to lighten charcoal or pastel marks. This changed when Edward Naime, an English engineer invented the eraser in 1770. The eraser is called a rubber in some places. The story is that Naime grabbed some rubber instead of bread on accident to erase something and realized its ability.
For this reason it received its name, because it could rub out pencil marks. It was the first practical application found for the substance. Rubber, like bread, was perishable and went bad over time. Charles Goodyear invented the process of vulcanization in 1839 and made rubber erasers common.
Then in 1858, Hymen Lipman patented attaching erasers to the ends of pencils. Later the patent was revoked since it combined two things already invented instead of inventing something new. Modern erasers come in all types of colors and shapes. They are now made of rubber, vinyl, plastic, gum, or other similar materials.


The New Zealand Toothbrush Fence, referenced in Flight of the Concords, is a real thing!


The fence was created by Laird McGillicuddy Graeme Cairns in Te Pahu, New Zealand. He’s wired the toothbrushes on a fence to rival an infamous bra fence located in Cardrona Valley, New Zealand. Cairns is certain that with just a few hundred more toothbrushes, tourists will come from all over the world to witness the unusual fence.
He got the idea from his own hoard of used toothbrushes he keeps. Apparently, people began putting their toothbrushes soon after he began his project and he’s gotten positive reviews. You too can have your toothbrush hanging from the fence. All you have to do is send the used toothbrush to: The Toothbrush Bucket 294 Limeworks Loop Road Te Pahu, R D 5 Hamilton New Zealand


There are fake bus stops that exist just to distract dementia patients in case they wander from their care home!

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A known issue with Alzheimer's patients is that they sometimes wander off from the care facilities. A nursing home in Germany came up with an interesting solution to the issue. The problem is that the patients can wander really far and get hurt or feel scared and alone. The first place people go often is the bus stop. So, a nursing home decided to create a fake bus stop in front of it.
The idea was that when the patient would wander off, he or she would sit at the bus stop and wait for a bus. The staff would eventually see them out there. In the beginning, the neighbors thought it was a real bus stop. The staff had to go to the stop and explain to them all that it wasn’t real and explain its purpose. Since then, though, the fake bus stop has been a great idea. When people get really upset, sometimes the nursing staff will take the patients to the bus stop, because they are convinced they need to get home to their family. The staff sits with the patient until they calm down and forget what they are doing and then return to the nursing home. It has changed the entire atmosphere of the nursing home. Pretty cool idea!


Your spit contains a painkiller that can be 6 times more powerful than morphine


Human saliva contains a natural painkiller called opiorphin. Due to its powerful painkilling ability, scientists are trying to synthesize a new natural painkiller from opiorphin. It is great, because it doesn’t have the same addicting attributes that morphine does and would work better with the body.
In a study, 1 milligram of opiorphin gave the same results as 3 milligrams of morphine did. In another study, involving rats standing on pins, they needed 6 times more morphine than opiorphin to make them oblivious to the pain.
Opiorphin works in the nerve cells of the spine. It stops the usual destruction of natural pain killing opiates in the spine called enkephalins. It is such a simple molecule, that scientists believe it’ll be possible to synthesize it and produce large quantities of it without needing to isolate it from saliva. Another approach is to find a drug that will make the body produce more opiorphin to manage pain.


The Beatles wanted to star in a film version of the Lord of the Rings. They wanted Stanley Kubrick to direct

Kubrick, of course is one of the best movie directors that ever lived. Some of his best known movies are '2001: A Space Odyssey,' 'A Clockwork Orange,' and 'The Shining.' When the film rights to The Lord of the Rings were sold to United Artists, The Beatles tried to jump on the opportunity to make a film about it. The Lord of the Rings was a huge hit with the '60s liberation movement and it makes sense that The Beatles would take interest in a project like this.
However, Stanley Kubrick had to turn them down. For him, the stories were impossible to capture on film. Indeed, the only projects based on the property were some mediocre animated movies for a long time, until Peter Jackson made the early 2000 versions. Peter Jackson later said that Tolkien had been against the idea of The Beatles being involved with such a project. Indeed, Tolkien was very protective of his IP and reportedly set up a clause that prohibited Disney from being involved in creating a movie based on his works.

A cat’s whiskers are normally as long as the cat is wide, helping it determine if it can fit into certain spaces!


Cats have whiskers in more places than just their cheeks, though that is the most common place. They also have them on their chins, eyebrows, and legs. The whiskers on their cheeks are the longest and most noticeable with 8-12 on each cheek. Occasionally whiskers will fall out and they are completely replaced within 2-3 months.
The whiskers grow to the length of the widest part of the cat’s body, normally their shoulder or hip span. They use their whiskers to gauge if they’ll be able to fit through openings. When a cat ducks its head into a space, it is actually seeing whether it’ll fit its body through the space by seeing how much space its whiskers have. If the whiskers bend or move, then the cat knows it won’t be able to fit through the space. They can also feel air movement flow through their whiskers. This helps them gauge distances and changes in air flow so they don’t run into things.


Lyndon B. Johnson nicknamed his penis 'Jumbo' and showed it to his colleagues at the US Capitol!


Lyndon B. Johnson was famous for his gusto, ego, and energy. He wanted to be the best President in the history of the U.S. despite his crass ways. The man was unpredictable at times. Once, in a Spanish restaurant, he jumped up on the table and proceeded to stomp and do flamenco dancing. He was a skilled storyteller who used his facial expressions to bring his stories to life.
Johnson said that he kept himself on a leash. It was a very loose leash, however. He would pee in the House Office building parking lot when he felt the need to go. When a colleague would enter the bathroom as Johnson was using a stall, he would turn around and show it to him! He called his penis “Jumbo” and asked if anyone had seen one so big. He’d even stand in the doorway of his office bathroom while making his assistants dictate what he was saying. Even when he was on the floor of the House and the Senate, he’d openly rummage around in his groin.


Ang Lee almost retired after the Hulk. His father persuaded him not to. He won the Best Director Oscar the next year!


Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-born American film director. He’s directed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility, and Hulk. Lee has spent much time filming Asian genres. In 2003, he returned to direct Hulk. It was his first big-budget film. The movie received mixed reviews, but was ultimately moderately successful. Lee thought about retiring due to the setback, but his father encouraged him to stick with making movies.
Lee then took on a low-profile and independent film based on a Pulitzer Prize finalist short story by Annie Proulx. The film, Brokeback Mountain, showcased Lee’s ability to probe the depths of the human heart. The film caught the public’s attention and became a cultural phenomenon and a major box-office hit. It was critically acclaimed at numerous international film festivals and he received numerous Best Director and Best Picture awards worldwide. He was the first Asian to ever win the Best Director award at the Oscars.

In 1971, a 17 year old German girl was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon surviving 10 days on her own!


Juliane Koepcke was the daughter of two famous Zoologists who ran a research station in the Amazonian Jungles of Peru. She was on a flight with her mother going from Lima, Peru to Pucallpa, Peru in the Amazon jungle. The flight would take less than an hour. They were flying to spend Christmas with Juliane’s father. The flight went fine until halfway through it. A lightning bolt hit a fuel tank and ripped the right wing off.
Presents were flying around the cabin and then Juliane was sucked out of the airplane as it spiraled to the ground. She was still attached to a row of chairs. She fell two miles before she landed in the jungle among thick foliage. She knew about the Amazon and how to survive, because her father had taught her. She had a broken collarbone and one eye was swollen shut.
She had major lacerations on her arms and legs. She found a creek and began walking through it to find a stream that would lead her to a river and civilization. She survived crocodiles, piranhas, and devils rays. She walked for 10 days before she found a boat and a hut. She was starving and had maggots infesting her wounds. She stayed in the hut for the night and the next day Peruvian lumberjacks found her and brought her to a nearby town.


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Inside Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch is a long hidden message!


Lincoln wore clothes that didn’t quite fit him and had messy hair. He didn’t really seem to take stalk in how he looked. He did, however, take the time to buy a gold pocket watch that was very tell-tale of success in that time period from a Springfield, Illinois jeweler. His great-grandson, Lincoln, Isham donated the pocket watch to the Smithsonian in 1958.
On April 13, 1861, Confederate forces first attacked Fort Sumter and began the Civil War that changed the U.S. forever. On that day, and Irish immigrant and watchmaker, Jonathan Dillon was working on President Lincoln’s gold pocket watch at M.W. Galt and Co. jewelers in Washington D.C. Forty-five years later, Dillon told the New York Times that he was screwing the dial on the watch when his boss announced the shot had been fired and the war was beginning.
Dillon unscrewed the dial and with a sharp instrument he said he wrote “The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President that at least will try.” After the Smithsonian received the pocket watch, they received a phone call from the great-great grandson of Jonathan Dillon telling them to open the pocket watch and see the hidden message.
The story had been passed down through his family. Amazingly, they decided to check and lo and behold, there was a message inscribed by Dillon, but not precisely what he’d said he wrote. The inscription read " The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President who at least will try." Lincoln never knew he was carrying around the message.

A man underwent surgery to get a second heart!



This rare surgery adds an additional heart into the right side of the chest, because the one heart was too weak to keep his blood flowing properly. The patient, Tyson Smith, couldn't have simply gotten a heart transplant because the lungs would have resisted the blood flow from the new heart, and the heart would have failed.


A man's wallet was found 40 years after he lost it.




Back in 1970, Rudolph Resta worked as an art director in the promotion department of The New York Times. One otherwise ordinary day, he went to fetch his wallet from his coat in an unattended closet and found that it had been stolen! Four decades hence, his wallet has been replaced and the incident was all but a distant memory...that is, until he met José Cisneros.
Cisneros is a security guard who works in the former Times headquarters, now called the Times building. He found Resta's old billfold last fall, discarded inside an old unused window frame! A few months later, Cisneros was able to track down its former owner thanks to ID cards that remained inside the wallet. Nothing had been taken from the wallet other than cash - Resta recovered 40-year-old pictures of his wife and kids, a photograph of his deceased father, and an American Express card from when their colors used to be purple and white!



Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was Tim Burton's second choice for the role of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.