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The American roulette wheel is different from the European wheel. The American one has 2 green spaces while the European one only has 1. Although on both, if you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel, you will get 666.
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa was never straight. Known for its four-degree lean, this Italian bell tower was constructed in the 12th century. When construction on the second story started, the tower started to lean due to the unstable ground it was built on.
Iceland has the world’s oldest parliament in history. Called the Althing, it was established in 930 and has stayed as the acting parliament of Iceland since then.
The day after Thanksgiving is called “Brown Friday” by plumbers in America because it is their busiest day of the year.
The wife of Anthony Perkins, the original Norman Bates, Berry Berenson, died as a result of being a passenger on one of the 9/11 planes.
Alexander the Great named over 70 cities after himself. Alexander the Great conquered over 2 million square miles of the Earth’s surface all by the time he was 30 so naming cities after himself was much deserved.
The thumbs-up sign is believed to have originated from Chinese pilots. It was used to communicate with the ground crew before take-off.
Cleopatra was the first member of her dynasty to speak Ancient Egyptian. She was also able to speak 8 other languages, including Ancient Greek, Ancient Iranian, Ancient Parthian, Syriac, Ethiopian, Troglodytae, Hebrew and Arabic.
In Toy Story 2, in the scene where Buzz gives a speech in front of the American flag, the flag was edited to be a globe for release in non-American countries.
America’s National School Lunch Program of 1946 was due to WWII. This is due to the fact that the government realized by giving the children free meals, they would have a healthier draft pool if they ever needed it again.
Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, didn’t have a funeral or headstone. When he was close to death, Tibbets decided he didn’t want a funeral or a headstone as he worried it would become a place for protesting nuclear armament. Instead, he was cremated, and his ashes were scattered over the English Channel.
The tallest mountain in our solar system, Olympus Mons, is 3 times taller than Mount Everest.
In medieval England, the word “ask” was pronounced “axe.” This pronunciation of the word was even featured in the first English translation of the Bible: “Axe and it shall be given.”
Batman and Predator exist in the same fictional universe. Since 1991, they have been featured together in three comic books.
A study from Harvard University finds that having no friends can be just as deadly as smoking. Both affect levels of a blood-clotting protein.
In 1710, Native American leaders traveled to Britain to visit Queen Anne. The four Mohawk Kings from one of the Iroquois Confederacy’s Five Nations and the Algonquian peoples were treated with high honor as diplomats. Transported through the streets of London in Royal Carriages, they were personally met by the Queen herself at the Court of St. James Palace.
The 7.62mm rifle bullet was created 129 years ago. The AK47 ammunition was developed by the Russian Empire in 1891. Originally designed for the Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle, this ammunition is still in use today.
In South Dakota, you can get a driver’s permit at age 14 with parental consent. Once you turn 16, you can get your license
Shakespeare originated the “yo momma” joke. In his play, Titus Andronicus, one of the characters, Chiron, exclaims, “Thou has undone our mother,” to which another character, Aaron, replies, “Villain, I have done thy mother.”
The Backpack Kid’s real name is Russell Horning.
Hollywood moved from New York to Los Angeles to escape Edison’s patents. Thomas Edison had patents on over 1,000 different things, including most of the technology needed to make high-end movies. So independent filmmakers moved to California, an area of the country where the judges weren’t as friendly to Edison and his patents.
In 2017, Adidas sold over 1 million pairs of shoes made from recycled ocean plastic, each pair taking 11 plastic bottles to make.
Charles Darwin invented his own wheeled office chair. The famous researcher found that, in his study area, he would have to go through the rigmarole of walking about the office from bench to bench, desk to desk. So, to maximize his productivity and save him some valuable study time, he decided to attach wheels to his luxurious armchair.
The British Pound is the world’s oldest currency still in use at 1,200 years old. The pound has been an identity as a symbol of British sovereignty.
The Circus Maximum in Rome is still the largest capacity sports arena ever built. It was used for the execution of prisoners, part of the Roman Triumph, and chariot racing. Historians believe the Circus Maximum could hold between 150,000 – 250,000 people at any given time.
Spartans were so rich that nobody had to work. Ancient Sparta was an immensely wealthy country. Mainly due to their conquest and domination of their neighbors, the Helots. When a Spartan boy reached adulthood and became a man, the Spartan state awarded him with an allotment of public farmland. They also rewarded him with a constituent of Helot slaves to work it.
The world’s smallest mammal, a Bumblebee Bat, weighs about the same as a U.S. dime. Native to Myanmar and Thailand, these bats are endangered.
Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs used their slaves as flycatchers. They would lather their slaves in honey, which would attract any flies to their slaves rather than themselves, as well as trap and kill the flies.