"Despite being in the middle of the Atlantic, the country of Iceland technically sits on the continents of both Europe AND North America."
"Chile is home to a big telescope facility that is named, interestingly enough, ‘The Very Large Telescope.’"
"The pet turtle in Rocky 1 (1976) and Rocky Balboa (2006) are played by the same turtle! Unreal."
"A teenager once traded an old cellphone all the way up to a Porsche by slowly but surely increasing the value of the items he traded for."
"When a woman breastfeeds, her body releases the hormone oxytocin. This helps her uterus return to the size that it was pre-pregnancy. Incredible!"
"The largest art heist in history took place back in 1990 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It involved 13 paintings worth $500M!"
"Underneath the UK there is an underground pipeline used to transfer aviation fuel. It was created during WWII to transfer fuel without risk on the roads or railways."
"The French have an expression that translates to: ‘The English have landed.’ It is used when a woman has her period. RUDE!"
"We’ve left behind some… not so nice things on the moon, including “96 bags of urine, feces, and vomit”
"Horses and zebras are unable to share a habitat together. Why? Well, it turns out that zebras carry a virus that is completely safe for them, yet deadly for horses."
"East Germany had their own version of Coke called ‘Vita-Cola.’ Sales completely disappeared when the Berin Wall fell."
"The man who ran the first documented ‘marathon’ was named Phidippides. He also happened to fight in a battle and run nearly 300 miles total only a few days before this."
"There is an AI that was created by students at the University of Washington specifically to detect ‘That’s What She Said’ jokes."
"Freddie Mercury wrote “Crazy Little Thing called Love” in 10 minutes as a tribute to Elvis."
"The reason why lemon juice makes fish smell less fishy is because of the the acidity neutrilizes a chemical group responsible for that smell."
"The ‘shells’ on top of the Sydney Opera House are unique in that if they were to be reassembled, they would form a perfect sphere."
"From 1991 – 2000 the vast majority of LSD was made by one man!"
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Dunkerk episod in ww2 comes to settle the beef forever ,and now i miss them in Eu
#9 They actually plan to go back for that stuff to analyse it and see if the long-term exposure to all that radiation has had an effect on it.
Now all I can picture is sentient bags of poop walking around on the moon.
if we filmed that, would that be a sh#t show?
As a french you should have wrote " les anglais débarquENT "