"The design of a skyscraper in London was melting cars and setting buildings on fire. It’s curvilinear shape was causing the problem: The south-facing exterior wall was covered in reflective glass, and because it’s concave, it focuses the sun’s rays onto a small area"
"Fairy dust was not mentioned in the original version of Peter Pan, but the author added it as a neccessity to enable the children to fly because “so many children tried [to fly] from their beds and needed surgical attention.”"
"The most requested funeral song in England is by Monty Python: “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life”."
"Robin Williams was offered, and accepted the role of The Joker in the 1989 film, “Batman.” Warner Brothers had only made the offer to bait their first choice, Jack Nicholson, into signing on, which he eventually did. Williams was furious, and demanded an apology from the film studio"
"Tiger beetles run so fast they temporarily blind themselves. When moving at up to 120 body lengths per second, their environment becomes a blur as their eyes can’t gather enough light to form an image"
"The disappearance of D. B. Cooper remains the only unsolved air piracy case in commerical aviation history"
"An FBI informant secretly wore a wire to breakfast with a city official suspected of bribery, and met the suspect at the WTC Marriott. In the middle of getting a confession, the informant ends up making what is believed to be the only uninterrupted audio recording of the Sept. 11 attack"
"The iconic Australian hat is bent up on one side to allow the armed forces maneuver rifles on and off their shoulders without hitting the brim"
"Pythagoras of The Pythagoras Theorem was a cult leader who claimed he could speak with animals, time travel and had an extreme hatred for Fava Beans"
"Darius McCollum, a New Yorker diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, has been arrested over 30 times for impersonating transit employees, stealing trains and buses, and driving their routes – complete with making safety announcements and passenger stops"
"The British had a POW camp called Trent park during WWII. They would take axis prisoners of war and let them live in luxury, while secretly bugging the house. The program gave the allies lots of intel, such as the location of a V2 rocket facility"
"Jacklyn H. Lucas. 3 years after joining the Marines at age 14, he snuck onto a ship bound for Iwo Jima, stormed the beach without a rifle and threw himself on top of 2 grenades to protect his team. He survived and earned the Medal of Honor at age 17"
"Wells Fargo was forced by the feds to rehire a whistleblower employee that reported fraud, and pay him $5.4 million in damages"
"After basketball player Zion Williamson’s foot ripped through his Nike shoe during a game, causing him to slip and sprain his knee, Nike’s stock valuation dropped $1.1 Billion the next day"
"The “alarm chemical” released by bees to make the hive attack (Isopropyl Acetate) is the same favouring we use to make banana flavoured sweets, meaning bees can become hostile around those sweets"
"In 1846, Joesph Leidy was the first person to solve a crime using a microscope. A farmer claimed the blood on his clothes was chicken blood. Joseph Leidy showed that it was not chicken blood using a microscope"
"The asteroid impact that caused the dinosaur extinction set 70% of the world’s forests on fire, caused tsunamis that rose to a height of 300ft (100m), and ejected 25 trillion metric tons of debris into the atmosphere that reduced sunlight by up to 90% for a decade"
"Listening to your favorite music for just 15 minutes a day lowers stress levels, anxiety, sadness and a depressed mood"
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