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October 27 - October 28, 2020
In Switzerland, if you fail your practical driver’s license three times, you are required to consult an official psychologist to assess the reason for your previous failures before you're allowed to retake the exam.
There is a Russian published novel called the “Last Ringbearer” which retells the Lord of The Rings from the perspective of Sauron.
In 1993, a Chinese man named Hu Songwen was diagnosed with kidney failure. In 1999, after no longer being able to afford the hospital bills, he built his own dialysis machine which kept him alive for another thirteen years.
After being eliminated from the show Hell's Kitchen, the contestants are immediately taken to get psychiatric evaluations and then to a house where they are pampered with back rubs, haircuts, and manicures. This is because the experience on the show is so draining that the producers don't want the eliminated contestants to kill themselves or someone else.
There's a chimpanzee in a Russian zoo named Zhora that became addicted to booze and smoking after too many visitors began giving him alcoholic treats and cigarettes. In 2001, the chimp actually had to be sent to rehab to be treated for his addictions.
Before he was Iron Man, actor Robert Downey Junior was a notorious drug addict. He credits his sobriety to the fast food chain Burger King. In an interview with Empire magazine, he revealed that in 2003 he was driving a car full of drugs when he ordered a burger from Burger King that was so disgusting that he felt compelled to pull over, get out and dump all of his drugs into the ocean.
During World War Two, prisoners in Canadian War camps were so well treated that they were given games and entertainment like soccer tournaments and musical groups. When the war ended, many of them didn't want to leave Canada.
The rules of most airlines require that the pilot and co-pilot of a plane eat different meals. This is just in case one o...
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Just in case one of the meals makes a pilot sick.
Eccrinology is the study of excretion.
There are 1,000 gigabytes in a terabyte and most neuroscientists estimate that the human brain can hold between ten and 100 terabytes of information.
Until the 1930’s, the letter “E” was used to represent a failing grade in the US, however, that was changed to “F” as professors began to worry that their students would mistake “E” for excellent.
In 1975, professor Jack Hetherington from Michigan State University added his cat as a co-author to a theoretical paper that he had been working on. He did this because he mistakenly used words like “we” and “our” in the paper and didn't feel like revising it.
A group of ravens is called an unkindness.
Some estimates report that one in eight babies are given to the wrong parents at some point during their hospital stay. Besides the crocodiles belly and top of its head the rest of the skin is bulletproof.
As of 2016, about 280 climbers have died on Everest. Their bodies are so well preserved that they are used as markers.
Written language was invented by the Mayans, Egyptians, Chinese, and Sumerians independently.
you search “askew” in Google, the screen will tilt slightly clockwise.
Mosquitoes don’t just bite you and suck your blood, they urinate on you before flying off.
It would take over fifty million balloons to lift the average house off the ground like in the movie “Up.”
There is a condition called “hyperthymesia” that causes the person to remember every single detail of their lives. Only twelve people on Earth have this condition.
Both companies Louis Vuitton and Chanel burn their products at the end of the year preventing them to being sold at a discount.
The youngest mother in medical history was Lina Medina from Peru who gave birth when she was five.
The pinky swear came from Japan and indicated that if someone broke the promise, they must cut off their pinky.
It rains diamonds on the planets Uranus and Neptune.
There are only two parts on the human body that never stop growing, the ears and the nose.
In Bern, Switzerland, there's a 500 year old statue of a man eating a sack of babies and nobody is sure why.
Koi fish can live for centuries. The oldest Koi to have ever lived was one named Hanako that lived for 225 years before it died.
Bubble wrap was originally invented in 1957 to be sold as wallpaper.
If you Google “Zerg rush,” Google will begin to eat the search page.
The first commercial flight only lasted twenty three minutes and cost $8,500 in today's money. It was between St. Petersburg, Florida, and Tampa, Florida.
Adult cats don't have enough lactase enzyme to digest the lactose from milk making them lactose intolerant.
Popes can't be organ donors because their entire body has to be buried intact as it belongs to the universal Catholic Church.
The sound you hear when you put a seashell next to your ear isn’t the sea but the blood running through your veins.
The information travelling inside your brain is moving at 268 miles per hour (430 kilometers per hour)
You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day.
Beaver eyelids are transparent so they can see through them as they swim underwater.
There is a tribe in India called the “War Khasi” that has been passing down for generations the art of manipulating tree roots to create a system of living bridges.
In the Despicable Me movies, the gibberish that the minions speak is actually a functioning language written by the directors called “Minionese.”
A California couple named Helen and Les Brown were both born on December 31, 1918, were married for seventy five years, and then died one day apart at the age of ninety four in 2013.
In 1939, the New York Times predicted that the television would fail because the average American family wouldn't have enough time to sit around watching it.
In the early 1990’s, Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics so that he could play Spider Man in his own self-produced movie.
Percussive maintenance is the technical term for hitting something until it works.
Zenography is the study of the planet Jupiter.
Although the Holy Bible is available for free at many places of worship, it is the most stolen book in the world.
As a person dies, his or her hearing is the last sense to go.
Sharks kill about twelve people a year. People kill about eleven thousand sharks an hour.
More people die from attempting selfies than fro...
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Pirates used to wear eye patches on one eye during the day so they could see better at night with that same eye.
Antarctica is considered a desert as it only receives two inches (fifty millimeters) of precipitation a year.
The highest divorce rate in the world by country is Luxembourg at 87%. The lowest is India with 1%.
