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Did you know... Martin Luther King Jr. got a C in public speaking
The world remembers Dr. King as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, and people often quote his “I Have a Dream” speech, which he delivered in 1963. Yet more than a decade before that legendary speech, while attending Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, he earned a C in public speaking during his first and second term.
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Advertisers spent more on digital ads in 2017 than on traditional TV, for the first time ever.
Did you know... Bees can make colored honey
In France, there’s a biogas plant that manages waste from a Mars chocolate factory, where M&Ms are made. Beekeepers nearby noticed that their bees were making “unnatural shades of green and blue” honey. A spokesperson from the British Beekeepers’ Association theorized that the bees eating the sugary M&M waste caused the colored honey.
Did you know... Bananas glow blue under black lights
To the everyday eye under normal conditions, ripe bananas appear yellow due to organic pigments called carotenoids. When bananas ripen, chlorophyll begins to break down. This pigment is the element that makes bananas glow, or fluoresce, under UV lights and appear blue.
90% of the population of Dubai is non-Emirati.
Did you know... Wimbledon tennis balls are kept at 68 degrees Fahrenheit
The temperature of a tennis ball affects how it bounces. At warmer temperatures, the gas molecules inside the ball expand, making the ball bounce higher. Lower temperatures cause the molecules to shrink and the ball to bounce lower. To make sure the best tennis balls are used, Wimbledon goes through more than 50,000 tennis balls each year.
Germany has a Museum of Snoring.
Did you know... Adult cats are lactose intolerant
Like some humans, adult cats don’t have enough of the lactase enzyme to digest lactose from milk, causing them to vomit, have diarrhea, or get gassy. Cats only have enough of that enzyme when they’re born and during the early years of their lives.
In 2016, a 155-year-old mousetrap, kept as an exhibit in a Berkshire museum, caught a mouse.
Did you know... Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are in New York City
They were given to Henry Abrams and preserved in a safety deposit box. Abrams was Einstein’s eye doctor. He received the eyeballs from Thomas Harvey, the man who performed the autopsy on Einstein and illegally took the scientist’s brain for himself.
Did you know... The Pope can’t be an organ donor
Pope Benedict XVI was issued an organ donor card in 1970. Once he ascended to the papacy in 2005, the card was invalid, reports the Telegraph. According to the Vatican, the Pope’s entire body must be buried intact because his body belongs to the universal Catholic Church.
Did you know... A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup
Héctor Castro, who accidentally cut off his right forearm while using an electric saw as a teenager, played on the Uruguay soccer team during the first-ever World Cup in 1930. In the last game between Uruguay and Argentina, Castro scored the winning goal in the last minute of the game. The final score was 4–2, making Uruguay the first country to win the World Cup title.
Did you know... The world’s oldest toy is a stick
Think of how versatile a stick is. You can use it to play fetch with your dog, swing it as a bat, or use your imagination to turn it into a lightsaber. That’s why, in 2008, the National Toy Hall of Fame inducted the stick into its collection of amazing toys as, very possibly, the oldest toy ever.
The average U.S. gamer is 35 years old.
China invests more each year in renewable power than any other country on earth.
Macaulay Culkin was the first child actor to earn $1 million for a movie.
Ta'u island in American Samoa runs on 100% solar energy.
Pablo Escobar offered to pay the whole of Colombia's national debt in an attempt to avoid extradition to the U.S.
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Jimi Hendrix served as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army's elite 101st Airborne division.
Did you know... A reservoir in space holds 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans.
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The word "muscle" comes from a Latin term meaning "little mouse."
A Septuagenarian from Japan came to fame for creating magnificent paintings using nothing but Microsoft Excel.
Tic Tac mints are named after the sound their container makes.
Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham as part of a bet.
The Cat in the Hat was published in 1957 and used a mere 236 words to tell the quirky feline's fantastical story. However, the book's author, Dr. Seuss, topped that feat with even fewer words when his publisher, Bennett Cerf, bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 words or less. Green Eggs and Ham hit bookstores three years later and uses exactly 50 words.
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The longest Cricket Test match was played over 12 days between England and South Africa in 1939 and it was eventually abandoned, otherwise the England team would have missed the boat for home.
Samuel Morse, inventor of the Morse Code, sent the first telegram from Washington to Baltimore in 1844. It read “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?”