"While Filming “The Gold Rush”, Charlie Chaplin did 63 separate takes of a scene where his character eats a boot, in reality, a prop made of licorice and ended up being taken to the hospital for insulin shock due to the high sugar intake."
"In 1962, French explorer Michael Siffre spent two months in complete isolation buried in a cave below a glacier with no natural light, to show that humans do, indeed, have an internal body clock. His sense of time collapsed but his body continued to maintain a daily rhythm. "
"7% of the population triggers a sneeze reflex when staring at a bright light such as the sun. 94% of people with this reflex are Caucasian. "
"Steven Spielberg still gets 2.5% of profits from Star Wars because while visiting the sets of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, George Lucas thought that movie would be a bigger hit than Star Wars. Spielberg disagreed and they both decided to trade 2.5% profit on each other’s films."
"Season Two of the TV series “24” featured a terrorist plot that originated from a London mosque. A few months after the season ended, authorities raided the mosque and found that it was indeed a terrorist hub."
"A Dutch police force is training eagles to combat drones. "
"There is a disease called “Skinny Pants Syndrome,” wherein damage is caused to one’s legs from his pants being too tight."
"Whataburger, and What-a-burger. They’re both different restaurants that opened on the same day without the knowledge of each other’s existence."
"19th-century aristocrats hosted “disintegration parties” in which guests watched unwrapped mummies rapidly decompose."
"Physicist Lene Hau, in 1999 led a team at Harvard University that was able to slow down a beam of light to 38mph and in 2001 they successfully stopped a beam of light."
"A man bought 2 pizzas in 2010 using 10,000 Bitcoins, worth over 10 million dollars today."
"Michael Jackson used to ‘relentlessly’ prank call Russell Crowe. "
"Geneticists have figured out the time that evolving humans lost their primate body hair by using mitochondrial DNA to calculate the date that head lice evolution diverged from that of public lice."
"Mr. Rodgers’ car was once stolen. The thief returned it back to him after he realized whose car it was."
"Comcast (NBC Universal) owns 70% of Rotten Tomatoes and Warner Bros the remaining 30%"
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