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INTERESTING FACTS
Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
INTERESTING FACTS
There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about 140,000 species of them were counted all over the world.
Baseball umpires used to sit in rocking chairs.
Baseball has been around since the 19th century. However, in the early games, umpires would sit in a rocking chair 20 feet behind the home plate.
The first commercial airplane flight lasted 23 minutes.
In 1914, Abram Pheil paid $400 (the current equivalent of $8,500) for a 23-minute plane ride. Pheil flew between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, which was only 21 miles away from each other.
The French Scrabble World Champion doesn’t speak French
Nigel Richards of New Zealand memorized the entire French Scrabble dictionary (386,000 words) in nine weeks to bag the title. Richards had been playing Scrabble for 20 years since.
A U.K. woman has called 911 because of ice cream.
The West Midlands police in England once released a recording of a woman who dialled 999 (the U.K. equivalent of 911) because her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles.
The British Empire was the largest empire in the world.
In the 1920s, the British Empire ruled over 23% of the world’s population. Their territory covered 13 million square miles. As such, the British Empire is considered the largest empire in history.
Turtles can talk to each other.
If you’ve ever had a pet turtle, you would know they’re a silent bunch. However, scientists have discovered that they actually “talk” through low-frequency clicking and hooting.
170 year-old champagne was found under the Baltic Sea.
The bottles would have been traveling from Germany to Russia in the 1800s before sinking in the sea. With temperatures between 2-4°C, the ocean floor was perfect for wine aging. Oenologists described the flavor profile as “sometimes cheesy,” with “animal notes,” and elements of “wet hair.”
Nikola Tesla did not like pearls.
One of the fathers of mechanical electricity, Nikola Tesla’s love for groundbreaking discoveries let us harness electricity the way we do now. However, he did not love pearls. He once sent an assistant home for showing up wearing pearls.
Brad Pitt injured his Achilles heel while playing Achilles.
In the historic hit Troy, Pitt played the Greek hero Achilles. However, he might have gone too deep in character: he injured his Achilles heel tendon during a battle scene, which took 2 months for him to recover from.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a C in public speaking.
Everyone remembers Dr. King as an activist and his “I Have a Dream” speech delivered in 1963. However, Martin Luther King actually had a C in public speaking while attending the Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.
Bees can make different colors of honey.
Beekeepers in France once noticed that their bees were making shades of green and blue honey. It was later discovered that the bees were consuming colorful M&M waste from a nearby Mars factory.
$The Pope can’t donate organs.
In 1970, Pope Benedict XVI was issued an organ donor card. However, once he ascended to the papacy in 2005, the card was deemed invalid. The Pope had to be buried with his whole body intact, because it was the property of the Catholic Church.
A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup.
Héctor Castro played for the Uruguay soccer team during the first ever 1930 World Cup. In the last round between Uruguay vs Argentina, Castro scored a last-minute goal that made Uruguay the first ever winner of the World Cup.
The stick is the world’s first toy.
This ancient toy dates back to the Stone Age.
The first baby stroller was pulled by animals.
William Kent invented the first stroller for the 3rd Duke of Devonshire in 1733. However, it did not have handles for parents. Instead, the strollers were pulled by goats, dogs, or miniature horses.
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Ancient Egyptians used dead mice for toothaches.
In Ancient Egypt, people soothed their toothaches by putting a dead mouse in their mouth. Sometimes, the Ancient Egyptians would even mix other ingredients with these mice, to form a paste that they would apply to the affected tooth.
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Rubber bands will last much longer when they are refrigerated.
When a rubber band is placed in the fridge, it causes the polymers to relax. This keeps the band from breaking down as fast as it normally does.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
This includes change in dimes, quarters, and combinations of the two. Can you figure out all 293 combinations?
The Grand Theft Auto franchise has lawsuits that total over $1 billion.
There are a lot of controversies that surround the game due to the nature of its gameplay. Rockstar North has faced many legal claims of copyright and influencing young players to commit sexual and illegal acts.
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All clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20.
Some people state that there are two scenes where the clocks are not set to this. Watch the movie to figure out which scenes they were.
The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.
Its eyes are around the size of a billiard ball. One eye is also smaller than the other. Perhaps this is why they tend to run in circles.
A dime has 118 ridges on its edge.
The ridges allow the coin to determine if it is real or fake. This was implemented on all coins before the 18th century. The ridges also make it harder to make counterfeit coins.