Nearly half of all panda births result in twins, yet it is rare for both to survive. After giving birth, pandas choose one cub to raise and abandon the other. They do this because their diet of bamboo does not allow for enough milk to be produced to feed two cubs.
Prior to international fame, Madonna once worked at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Manhattan. Rumor has it that she was fired for “accidentally” squirting donut filling on one of the customers.
The Sun is so massive that it could fit one million Earths inside of it.
Neil Young did cocaine backstage before he performed at The Band’s Farewell Concert in San Francisco in 1976. Young had visible cocaine residue hanging from his nostril as he performed.
The concert was being filmed by Martin Scorsese for a documentary called The Last Waltz. Young’s manager wanted Scorsese to edit out the unmissable drugs beneath Young’s nose.
To do this, Scorsese created “the traveling booger matte” – an effect that hovered over Young’s nose throughout his performance.
Sharks eat trash and other random things that they find floating in the ocean. Soemtimes they are referred to as the “garbage cans of the ocean,” because of this odd behavior.
King Ranch in Texas, which is approximately 825,000 acres, is larger than Rhode Island.
Before the land was split up between the owner’s children in 1935, the ranch was larger than Delaware.
When Mozart died in 1791, many believed he had been poisoned by Antonio Salieri, a musician who had been his biggest rival. Mozart had told his wife weeks prior to his death, that he believed he had already been poisoned before.
When Salieri died in 1825, it was rumored that he confessed on his deathbed to killing Mozart.
In 2009, however, researchers in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggested that he actually died of strep throat.
Earth’s continental plates accelerate to speeds up to 20 times faster than normal when the planet is going through periods of extreme strain. Approximately 200 years ago, the plates began to drift at a speed of 20 millimeters per year.
Gerald Ford was the first and only person to serve as a US President, who wasn’t elected to the presidency or vice presidency.
After Richard Nixon resigned, Ford was sworn in on Aug. 9, 1974. Nixon had only chosen Ford to be his vice president after his running mate Spiro Agnew resigned in 1972.
Elton John honors female musicians by naming his pianos after them. He has named pianos after Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, and Diana Krall.
In 2011, he added a new one with LED screens and a price tag of $1.3 million which he named after the jazz singer Blossom Dearie.
The Dakota, the oldest luxury apartments in New York City, began construction in the Upper West Side in 1880. As it was the first building to be built in the area and it was so far away from everything else in the city at the time, people joked about it being a Dakota territory, which stuck and gave the building its name.
The Dakota apartments were sold out before it was fully constructed. From 1884 until 1929, the apartment never had a vacancy.
The apartment building is most famous for being where John Lennon had lived with Yoko Ono, and the setting for where he was shot to death.
George Washington only had one real tooth left when he was elected to the Presidency in 1789.
When he finally had his last real tooth pulled in 1796, he gave it to his dentist as a gift. Dr. John Greenwood kept the tooth in a tiny glass case that hung from his watch chain.
A brand new ant species was discovered in Manhattan in 2012. It was named the Manhattant, and was found at the Broadway medians between 63rd and 76th streets in New York City.
Scientists believed the ant had originated in Europe, until they realized it was a brand new species.
Quentin Tarantino became a huge fan of CSI after watching the show during breaks while filming Kill Bill.
When CSI producers learned he was a fan, they offered to let Tarantino direct an episode. He ended up directing an episode called “Grave Danger,” which was the Season 5 finale.
Critics called the episode the one of the series most intense and horror-filled CSI episodes ever.
Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous painting, “The Starry Night,” represents his view from the Saint-Paul de Mausole asylum in France.
Van Gogh had signed himself into the asylum after experiencing a mental breakdown. In the painting, he left out the bars on his windows and included more countryside than he could visibly see from his window.
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