"Robert Lucas, upon receiving a Nobel Prize in economic sciences, was only awarded half the prize money. His ex-wife had placed a clause in their divorce settlement in 1988 stating she would receive half the prize money if he won the prize in the following 7 years. He won in the price in 1995."
"Mike Millard is one of the most legendary concert bootleggers, he would pretend to be handicapped in order to sneak in his recording equipment on his wheelchair. His recordings are considered some of the best, even to this day. "
"70% of Tasmanian devils have died since 1996 due to a contagious facial cancer with a 100% fatality rate."
"In the early 1990s, 6-day long bicycle races were quite popular. The winner would be whoever rode the greatest distance in the 6 days. They would get extremely little sleep and hallucinate on the track."
"The world’s once largest diamond, the Kohinoor, was inside the Taj Mahal and the British stole it when they conquered India. They haven’t returned it yet."
"Jon Stewart had a planet named after him in the Star Wars universe simply by asking George Lucas where Obi-Wan came from."
"In 1982, Pablo Escobar was the official representative of the Colombian government at the swearing in of Spain’s Prime Minister."
"A US company cannot legally forbid you to talk about pay with your coworkers."
"1250 gallons of mayonnaise went bad at Michigan State University last year, the school’s Sustainability Officer used an anaerobic digester to turn it into energy and power part of the campus."
"Los Angeles was hit with a devastating and deadly series of intentionally set fires in the 1980s and 90s. They finally arrested the arsonist who turned out to be The Arson Inspector charged with investigating the fires."
"During the peak of Ebola news in 2014 people started to avoid Liberia airport in Costa Rica thinking that it was the country in Africa."
"The Aral Sea, once the 4th largest lake in the world, has been steadily shrinking since the 1960’s. It is now 1/10th of its original size. Nearly 90% of the water has now given way to sandy desert with wrecks of beached boats dotting the surface."
"Astronaut John Young got really bad flatulence from drinking orange juice during the Apollo 16 mission to the moon. Unknowingly, he broadcast this fact to the world. “I have the farts again. I got them again, Charlie.”"
"To help airline passengers deal with travel anxiety, San Francisco International Airport has hired the nation’s first airport therapy pig. LiLou wears costumes and performs tricks to help travelers calm down before boarding their flights."
"Magnolia trees are so old they evolved before bees and are pollinated by beetles."
"Frogs use their eyes to push their food down their throat when they swallow."
"Ancient Egyptians didn’t call themselves Egyptian (thats a later name) they called themselves Kemet which in their tongue means ‘black land’. Black was seen as a good color in Egypt because it represents the niles fertile soil."
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