"There are no bridges across the Amazon River."
"In the 60’s the Italian Ministry of Education broadcasted a TV show titled “It’s Never Too Late”, aimed to teach older people how to read and write. An estimate of 1.5 million people got their elementary school diploma thanks to it."
"Great White Sharks have poison resistance that defies logic. Samples of shark blood showed levels of arsenic and mercury that should be harmful if not deadly but the sharks were unaffected. Additionally Great Whites’ have impressive self-healing abilities."
"Louis Braille faced resistance towards and doubts about his writing system for the blind, called Braille. His school burned books he and his classmates had transcribed into Braille, since the school thought that the effectiveness of Braille was a threat to their revenue. The school’s revenue, btw, was selling crafts made by the students. Being literate would mean that the students would become more independent and so the school could no longer take advantage of them."
"The firm who repaired seat covers on San Francisco’s BART trains started paying people to slash the fabric, eventually accounting for 85% of vandalism reports."
"Instead of taking their usual salaries for ”Twins”, Schwarzenegger and DeVito both agreed with the studio to take 20% of the film’s box office returns which resulted in them receiving the biggest paychecks of their film careers ( movie made $216 million worldwide)."
"That the Pythagorean theorem must have been known before Pythagoras, because it is used in a proof on a Babylonian clay tablet dated about 12 centuries before the birth of Pythagoras."
"Local Indonesian mythology says that Orangutans actually have the ability to speak human languages, but choose not to, fearing they would be forced to get jobs and work if were they ever caught."
"Mr. Rogers answered every fan letter, starting his day at 5 AM to respond to 50-100 daily, including those from children dealing with personal issues like family deaths."
"Elephants are the only wild animal that understands pointing without human training."
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