"Kurt Lee, the first Chinese-American US Marine Corps officer, yelled out orders in Mandarin Chinese to confuse opposing Chinese troops during the Battle of Inchon in the Korean War."
"Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory was financed by the Quaker Oats company to sell their real-life Wonka Bar. The bar was taken off shelves after a few months due to problems with its formula, but the film went on to become a cult classic."
"Scientists recreated a 9th century onion and garlic eye remedy from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript, and found that it killed 90% of antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria (MRSA)."
"The official city motto of Paris is “Fluctuat nec mergitur”, or “She is tossed by the waves but does not sink.”"
"Former USA president Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only President to kill a cougar with a knife. "
"In 1944, on the verge of the Liberation of Paris, Hitler ordered its governor to leave it in a “pile of rubble,” and destroy all religious and historical monuments. The Governor refused, saving Paris. "
"Japan’s occupation of Hong Kong back in WWII caused the population to drop from 1.6 million to 600,000 in just three years."
"Kobe beef was not legally exported out of Japan until January of 2012. If you ate Japanese Kobe Beef outside of Japan before this date, you were either duped or it was illegal."
"The caffeine in the coffee plant, like capsaicin in chili peppers, is meant to be a toxic substance to deter herbivores."
"The “tidal wave” planet in Interstellar is theoretically possible due to the rapid rotation of the planet. "
"Till the 1990s, the French used to run mobile brothels to supply their soldiers on the front lines with prostitutes."
"After opening of the New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, a rumor came about that the Bridge was unstable and was going to collapse. To prove it was safe, P.T. Barnum led 21 elephants across it on May 17, 1884."
"A neutron star is so dense that if you dropped a gummy bear from one meter above it would hit the surface in a nanosecond at around 7,000,000 km/h with the force of 1,000 nuclear bombs."
"81-year-old Marie Wilcox in San Joaquin Valley of California is the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language. In an attempt to revive the dying language she spent 7 years writing and recording a Wukchumni dictionary. "
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#26 That's because it's a kid's movie and parents have to buy a ticket, too, which account for more ticket sales and thus higher revenues.
Search for vespa 150 tap. It technically did work, but they were discontinued after a few years.
It actually made into combat and worked just fine, but aiming it was difficult. Only 600 were made, at only $500 USD a pop.