"Statistically, a mature tree will only produce one adult descendent throughout its lifetime. "
"In 1967, a man appeared on Jeopardy! intending to win just enough money to buy an engagement ring. He won that amount halfway through and kept his mouth shut from there on. To prevent a recurrence, the rules were changed shortly thereafter, allowing only the winner to keep all his/her winnings."
"While filming Rocky IV, Dolph Lundgren punched Stallone’s chest so hard, his heart slammed against his breastbone, causing it to swell and his blood pressure shot to over 200. Filming was halted as Stallone was flown into intensive care for eight days."
"There are only 2 escalators in the entire state of Wyoming."
"Switzerland banned nearly all forms of motor-racing after the tragic 1955 Le Mans disaster, where fragments of a crashed car flew in to the stands, killing 83 spectators, the most deadly accident in motorsport history. Despite numerous attempts to lift it, the ban is still in place to this day."
"There is a secret room behind Mount Rushmore designed to store treasured documents of USA."
"A Chinese billionaire once charged a $170 million painting to his Amex card just to accrue the points."
"Bicycles have no speed limits in the UK, but you can get charged with ‘cycling furiously’."
"When a crow dies, the other crows investigate if there’s a threat where the death occurred, so they can avoid it in the future. "
"There is an “American” themed restaurant in the Philippines called ArmyNavy Burgers and Burritos that has Freedom Fries, Freedom Toast, and LiberTea on the menu. "
"Sweden was the first to find out about the censored Chernobyl accident when one of the workers at the Forsmark power plant set off evacuation alarms when he had walked through grass that had been contaminated from radioactive rain picked up from Chernobyl over 800 miles away."
"In the town of Harar in Ethiopia, a man fed meat to a hyena in order to get him away from his livestock. Now, feeding hyena’s are a ritual in the city."
"The famous Medieval Plague doctor beaked masks were so shaped because they were stuffed full of good smelling herbs, believed to protect the wearer against the putrid, smelly air that was thought to have caused the Black Death. "
"In Assassin’s Creed, every key character you assassinate was a real person, and the date and location of their death is accurate."
"Coconut juice – or water inside – not only is sterile, but has the same electrolytic balance as human blood, which enabled medics in the Pacific Theater in World War II to use it as an emergency substitute for plasma. "
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I went to high school with a girl whose parents did that with part of her brothers college tuition ...
#20 True, but the ability to sing a melodic song in mandarine is the most difficult of all languages. Going up or down to make each word perfect for meaning while keeping a tune is a mathematical equation of massive complexity. I know, I've tried!