"There is a rare breed of chicken where the entire chicken is solid black. The meat, skin, organs, bones, bone marrow, tongue, and eyes are all solid black. This Ayam Cemani Chicken of Indonesia costs around $2,500! "
"It was reported in 2002 that Warner Brothers Pictures had secured the rights for a live-action Johnny Bravo feature film “as a potential starring vehicle for Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.” However, by 2015, no further developments regarding this project had been announced."
"Dogs have a branch of nerves in their ears and when you rub them it releases endorphins, making them extremely relaxed with a type of natural high."
"People with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain, are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, and require larger amounts of anesthetics than people without red hair due to a mutation in their melanocortin 1 receptor. "
"Rather than building up, millionaires in central London are building down, creating mega-basements. These are nicknamed “iceberg homes” because there is more square footage under the ground than above."
"When the Confederate Army was low on gunpowder, bat caves were raided for poop. Bat guano’s high nitrate content provided a key ingredient for the production of gunpowder. "
"James Blunt sings the first line “My life is brilliant” of “You’re Beautiful” twice in the beginning of the song because he mistimed it. It was left in the final recordings. "
"Beer is the world’s 3rd most popular drink, after water and tea. "
"Alton Brown, host of Food Network’s “Good Eats” was originally a cinematographer. He shot the video for R.E.M’s “The One I Love,” among others. He also didn’t attend culinary school until after deciding to start a cooking show."
"During the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet forces held a single apartment building for 60 days against daily German assaults. The building was transformed into a fortress, with 4 layers of barbed wire, minefields, and a machinegun in nearly every window. "
"In Star Wars, the Jedi aren’t necessarily the good guys, and the Sith aren’t necessarily the villains. They simply have competing ideas about how to use the force."
"After he was accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trial, Giles Corey was subjected to “pressing.” He was stripped naked and weight was added to a heavy plank on his chest to force him to plead innocent or guilty. Each time he was asked to make his plea, he said “more weight” and was eventually crushed to death. "
"Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr got into such a heated discussion on a street car once that they missed their stop, and missed it again on their way back to catch it."
"David Copperfield has so far sold 40 million tickets and grossed over $4 billion, which is more than any other solo entertainer in history. "
"Alexander the Great once held a drinking contest among his soldiers. When it was over, 42 people had died from alcohol poisoning."
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Yeah! And #2 isn't Johnny Bravo or The Rock either! It's all a sham!