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Benjamin Franklin designed America’s very first one-cent coin, which was engraved with the caption: “Mind your business.”
. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugio_cent |
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In 2006, NASA found a strange cosmic noise that boomed six times louder than expected. NASA scientists have yet to explain it's source.
They named it the "space roar." |
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In 1989 a Los Angeles woman received a phone call from her brother-in-law saying that her ex-husband was coming over to kill her. She dialled 911 but was told nothing could be done unless he showed up at the house. Within 15 minutes he arrived, killing her and four others.
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In an attempt to attract publicity, Badminton New Zealand chose "black ****" as a nickname for their national teams in 2004.
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Should have known. Black C*cks.
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Nelson Mandela's wife Winnie was found personally responsible for a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and murder by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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All through the 20th century, and up to 2007, parts of Lower Manhatten were still wired up with and using Edison's original 110V DC.
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Tibet had an incredibly large empire that fell because Buddism caused a civil war.
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If you want to know whether a diamond is real, breathe on it.
Diamonds are very efficient heat conductors, so the fog from your breath will disappear almost immediately if it is real. If the fog sticks around a few seconds before clearing up, the rock is probably a fake. . https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-tell-if-a-diamond-is-fake-or-real-2015-1?r=US&IR=T |
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Women of all ages are more likely to survive in times of crisis.
A study of the last 250 years shows that women have longer life spans during famine or disease epidemics, and female survival rates are especially higher during infancy. . https://www.scarymommy.com/study-life-expectancy-crisis-women/ |
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Being forgetful is not only normal, it makes you smarter. The main function of memory is to improve decision making, and forgetting irrelevant details helps you to be more intelligent and make informed decisions.
. https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/30/health/poor-memory-smarter-study-partner/index.html |
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The eight-hour workday was devised so that workers could easily divide 24 hours between: "eight hours' labour, eight hours' recreation, eight hours' rest."
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In 2006, a prisoner named Richard Lee Mcnair got himself a job in prison repairing mail bags, and he climbed inside one and mailed himself out of prison.
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In 2011, The RIAA sued Limewire for 72 trillion dollars, which is more than the GDP of the entire world.
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The National Academy of Sciences provides a free ‘science hotline’ for filmmakers in order to encourage more scientifically accurate movies. The service is free to both professional and amateur films, as well as TV and video game projects.
. http://scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/about/ |
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When your eyes move, your eardrums do, too. Nobody knows exactly why, but it does indicate that the information we take in through sight and sound has a much closer relationship than previously thought.
. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/when-your-eyes-move-so-do-your-eardrums/551237/ |
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Monkeys can learn to use money.
Capuchins that were taught to exchange silver discs for treats began budgeting for foods they liked, buying more of something when the price dropped and started gambling. Eventually, there was an incident where ‘money’ was stolen, and the rich monkeys even figured out they could pay each other for sex. . http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~kyu/E2017/Monkey.pdf |
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1 in 5 people can ‘hear’ flashes of light.
This is a form of synesthesia, where 2 or more sensory experiences are cross-wired, much like seeing colours when you hear certain musical notes or hearing notes when you see flashing lights. It’s also more common in trained musicians and might account for the appeal of having strobe lights at raves. . https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/17/listen-with-your-eyes-one-in-five-of-us-may-hear-flashes-of-light-synaesthesia |
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According to legend, there was once a widowed father who was so poor, he feared his daughters could never marry and would have to resort to prostitution to get by.
Wanting to help, St. Nicholas slid down their chimney one night, saw the girls’ laundered stockings hanging by the fire, and filled them with gold. This act of charity saved the girls from becoming hookers, and that’s why we hang stockings at Christmas. . https://www.livescience.com/32906-hang-stockings-for-christmas.html |
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There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than there are human cells.
. https://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp |
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Scientists say the best way to convey sarcasm in your text messages is to use a winky face.
Without it, your jokes are often completely misinterpreted. . https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/17470218.2015.1106566 |
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Kids who are rejected by their dads are more likely to have social anxiety.
Studies show children with heterosexual parents face increased loneliness when they’re rejected by either parent, but only rejection by their fathers leads to lasting social anxiety and difficulty forming friendships. . https://www.scarymommy.com/study-finds-father-rejection-impacts-social-anxiety/ |
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“Schnapsidee” is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when you’re drunk.
. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schnapsidee |
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In 2013, more Americans were killed by toddlers than terrorists.
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According to a Chinese legend, music was invented in 2697 B.C., when the emperor Huan Ti send Ling Lun to cut bamboo poles that would produce a sound matching the call of a Phoenix bird.
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The first Sherlock Holmes book " A Study In Scarlet" was the first work of fiction to mention a magnifying glass being used as an investigative tool and the reason we still connect this item with detectives today.
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The average white, fluffy cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds.
. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/49786/how-much-does-cloud-weigh |
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If you try not to “catch” someone’s yawn, the urge gets even stronger and you’ll probably just end up yawning anyhow.
. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)30966-1 |
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Hot chocolate tastes better in an orange cup.
The colour of the container you’re drinking from highly influences the way you think your drink tastes or how strong it is. Studies show people prefer hot chocolate when they drink it from cups that are orange or cream coloured compared to drinking out of red or white cups, and the colour of your cup can also influence how strong you think your coffee is. . https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130103073238.htm |
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After a snowfall, people used to say it ‘snew.’ Today, most people say it ‘snowed,’ but both are technically correct.
. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snew |
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During a 2004 interview of Stephen Hawking, a reporter asked him how he manages to keep his spirits up and stay cheerful.
He said, ‘Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.’ |
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In 1996, hundreds gathered to
protest a KKK rally in Michigan. They chased down a white man wearing a confederate flag t-shirt, knocked him down, and started hitting and kicking him. He was saved by a black teenager named Keshia Thomas, who threw herself on top of him to protect him from the angry mob |