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Only 2 countries don’t sell Coca-Cola.
Due to political reasons, North Korea and Cuba do not distribute the world’s most famous drink.
The Paris Agreement on climate change was signed by the largest number of countries ever in one day.
The Paris Agreement (Accord de Paris) is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which deals with greenhouse-gas-emission mitigation, adaptation, and financing. Initially signed in 2016, 195 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement as of November 2019.
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Do you feel bad for them too, or is there another motivation?
The world's quietest room is located at Microsoft's headquarters in Washington state.
In Building 87 of Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington lies the quietest room in the world. With a record-breaking background noise of -20.35 dBA, this room is 20 decibels below the minimum of human hearing. It is so silent that if you stay in it for long enough, you’ll start to hear your heartbeat, a deafening ringing in your ears, and the grinding of your bones. To achieve absolute silence, the room was constructed with an onion-like structure made of six layers of concrete and steel.
Only 3 countries don’t use the metric system.
Namely, Myanmar, Liberia, and the U.S.
President Bush was re-elected by less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.
Only 60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the U.S. presidential election of 2004. It was the highest percentage in 36 years, but more than 78 million people did not vote.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
The critically and commercially acclaimed 90s comedy only took two weeks to shoot. Pretty surprising for a 95-minute film.
Dodge made the first engines used by Ford.
The Dodge Brothers Company built every part of the earliest Ford car except the seats and tires.
Sometimes I like smaller cookie
Beer: It's not just for breakfast anymore.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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In Ancient Egypt , priests plucked their bodies bald.
Ancient Egyptians believed that body hair was unhygienic and shameful. As such, it was a common practice for men, women, and children to remove their body hair.
The population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds.
Every eight seconds, a person is born. Every 25 seconds, an immigrant is added, and a death occurs every 13 seconds.
Toto was paid $125 per week while filming The Wizard of Oz.
In the 1939 hit The Wizard of Oz, Toto was played by a brindle Cairn Terrier named Terry. She was paid a $125 salary each week, which was even more than some of the human actors (ie: the Singer Midgets who played the Munchkins allegedly received $50 to $100 a week).
I met a couple of kids today that were the type of children who would kill both parents and make you feel sorry for them because they were orphans.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
In more shocking fun facts (perhaps literally): Alfred Southwick was a dentist who conceptualized electrical execution when he heard of an intoxicated man who died from touching a live electric generator. Realizing the man’s quick death, Southwick concluded that electricity could be an alternative to hanging for executions. However, he first intended for electrocution to euthanize stray dogs.
Frankenstein is a vegetarian.
Turns out, this figure always seen along with Dracula and ghost isn’t as scary as you think. Victor Frankenstein’s Creature is – in fact – a vegetarian. In the Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein, the Creature says: “My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.”
The Terminator script was sold for a dollar.
James Cameron is the award-winning director who made his name with hits such as Titanic, Avatar, and The Terminator. However, his life wasn’t always that grand. In fact: in order to get his breakout hit made with The Terminator, he sold the script for US$1 and a promise that he’d get to direct.
Computer mouse speed is measured in "Mickeys."
The roller-ball device was first invented by a British scientist in 1946 while working for the Royal Navy. However, the word “mouse” was not coined until 1965.
Pigeon poop is property of the British royal family.
Pigeon poop was used to make gunpowder in the 18th century, so King George I confirmed all the droppings as property of the crown.