15 Mind-Blowing Facts That You Should Read (Part 170)
1. During an experiment conducted at the New York University, a robotic fish was accepted by other fish as their leader.
2. Saudi Arabia deported three men in 2013 for fear that local women would be aroused as the men were “too handsome”.
3. A brain-dead woman was kept “alive” in 1991 because she was pregnant; she later gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
4. Anything you put in the status update box on Facebook is sent to Facebook servers, irrespective of whether or not you post it.
5. A man claimed that he would build a skyscraper 480 feet tall. He labelled all the plans as 480", and…
had the skyscraper built 40’ in keeping with the plans, pocketed the money and won a court case because, technically, he did not defraud anyone. The “skyscraper” is located in Texas, and is called the World’s Littlest Skyscraper.
6. Research has shown that having a bad boss can make you physically as well as mentally ill.
7. Two Hong Kong teenagers have created a self-sanitizing door handle that can kill 99.8% of germs and bacteria
8. Animals tend to avoid power lines because their visibility allows them to see frightening ultraviolet flashes that are invisible to humans.
9. Two skeletons, a woman clutching a child to her breast, preserved in a mudflow in Tibet for 4000 years.
10. The Japanese have a word for when you buy a lot of books but never read them - tsundoku [???].
11. Queen’s lead guitarist Brian May has a PhD in astrophysics from the Imperial College London and has co-authored 3 research papers!
12. Germany aims to stop the usage of fossil fuels by 2050, generating 100% of the country’s electricity from renewable sources.
13. Former U.S. Marine Guy Gabaldon was single-handedly responsible for the capture of 1500 Japanese soldiers during WWII: at night, he used to sneak into the caves where the Japanese soldiers hid and convince them that he had them surrounded. On one occasion, he captured 800 soldiers at once.
14. The creators of Adventure Time, The Regular Show and Gravity Falls are college friends and worked together on a show in the initial days of their career.
15. John Lasseter once pitched a story of a completely computer-animated film to Disney; the idea was rejected, and Lasseter fired. Lasseter then went on to become a founding member of Pixar.
1. During an experiment conducted at the New York University, a robotic fish was accepted by other fish as their leader.
2. Saudi Arabia deported three men in 2013 for fear that local women would be aroused as the men were “too handsome”.
3. A brain-dead woman was kept “alive” in 1991 because she was pregnant; she later gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
4. Anything you put in the status update box on Facebook is sent to Facebook servers, irrespective of whether or not you post it.
5. A man claimed that he would build a skyscraper 480 feet tall. He labelled all the plans as 480", and…
had the skyscraper built 40’ in keeping with the plans, pocketed the money and won a court case because, technically, he did not defraud anyone. The “skyscraper” is located in Texas, and is called the World’s Littlest Skyscraper.
6. Research has shown that having a bad boss can make you physically as well as mentally ill.
7. Two Hong Kong teenagers have created a self-sanitizing door handle that can kill 99.8% of germs and bacteria
8. Animals tend to avoid power lines because their visibility allows them to see frightening ultraviolet flashes that are invisible to humans.
9. Two skeletons, a woman clutching a child to her breast, preserved in a mudflow in Tibet for 4000 years.
10. The Japanese have a word for when you buy a lot of books but never read them - tsundoku [???].
11. Queen’s lead guitarist Brian May has a PhD in astrophysics from the Imperial College London and has co-authored 3 research papers!
12. Germany aims to stop the usage of fossil fuels by 2050, generating 100% of the country’s electricity from renewable sources.
13. Former U.S. Marine Guy Gabaldon was single-handedly responsible for the capture of 1500 Japanese soldiers during WWII: at night, he used to sneak into the caves where the Japanese soldiers hid and convince them that he had them surrounded. On one occasion, he captured 800 soldiers at once.
14. The creators of Adventure Time, The Regular Show and Gravity Falls are college friends and worked together on a show in the initial days of their career.
15. John Lasseter once pitched a story of a completely computer-animated film to Disney; the idea was rejected, and Lasseter fired. Lasseter then went on to become a founding member of Pixar.
