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Airlines all over the world are flying 10% slower than they did in 1960 to save on fuel costs.
In French, Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latvian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin and Tagalog, the words for ‘time' and ‘weather' are the same.
There are about 459 "cancer villages" in China, small communities near polluting factories where cancer rates have soared far above the national average.
Using your non-dominant hand for mundane tasks, like eating or opening doors, for two weeks can improve your self-control.
“A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
–Niki Lauda
Heartbroken that, for days, he was unaware of his wife's death, Samuel Morse decided to explore a means of rapid long-distance communication and ended up inventing the single-wire telegraph and the Morse Code.
“Do, or do not. There is no “try”.
– Yoda
Michael Jackson's estate continues to allocate 20% of his posthumous earnings to various charities, as specified in his will.
“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”
–William Wallace
Hitler was a big tax evader, and was even fined by his own government over it in 1934. He then got the tax department to declare him exempt from taxation.
“Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.”
–Heath Ledger
In 2012, a Swedish man survived for two months in a car that had been snowed over. He ate only snow, and survived due to an "igloo effect".
The green falling code in "The Matrix" movie is just loads of sushi recipes.
“Great men are not born great, they grow great.”
–Mario Puzo
There is a Guinness World Record for ‘most matchsticks extinguished with the tongue'.
“In this life, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody but yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen. Now go on back.”
–Fortune
“It’s what you do right now that makes a difference.”
–Struecker
100,000 Japanese disappear without a trace every year, many to save their honor after a divorce, job loss, failing an exam, or debt.
“Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.”
–Professor X
A theist is someone who is addicted to tea. That makes me a Theist as well.
“Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It’s the moments that take your breath away.”
–Alex Hitchens
Sharks have rush hour too: a study found that shark traffic on major routes around Palmyra Atoll peaked between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
To be legal, prop money for films in the U.S. must be one-sided and less than 75% or more than 150% of the size of a real banknote.
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
–Ferris Bueller
Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
“Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.”
–Rocky Balboa
Dolphins tenderise octopuses by bashing them around before eating them.
The British Library keeps its collection of over 60 million newspapers in an airtight room with low oxygen so they can't catch fire.
The Japanese embassy in France has a 24-hour helpline for their citizens who didn't find Paris as expected.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
–Timo Cruz