Beetle breeding is a $100 million industry in Japan. In 1999, a beetle specimen sold for 10,000,000 yen which was about $100,000 at the time. The industry used to be illegal which caused surges in beetle smuggling- in 2001, two Japanese men were arrested in Nepal trying to smuggle 542 beetles.
Pedialyte is a hangover “cure”; so much so that adult consumption is up 60%…
Pedialyte is a hangover “cure”$$ so much so that adult consumption is up 60% since 2012 and the company has started targeting adults on “party holidays”.
BB King played at a hall in 1949 in which 2 men fought and started…
BB King played at a hall in 1949 in which 2 men fought and started a fire. He escaped but realized his guitar was inside. He ran into the hall and saved it. The 2 men were fighting over a girl, Lucille, so King vowed never to fight over a girl. King named all his guitars Lucille as a reminder.
When 71 potential witnesses to a murder in a Belfast bar all claimed to be in the…
When 71 potential witnesses to a murder in a Belfast bar all claimed to be in the toilet during the attack, the 4 x 3 foot toilet became known as the Tardis.
Tibetan mythology has zombies (ro-lang) and Western zombie…
Tibetan mythology has zombies (ro-lang) and Western zombie-narratives depict them very similarly.
Elon Musk of Tesla Motors on being asked to comment on Artificial…
Elon Musk of Tesla Motors on being asked to comment on Artificial Intelligence said that it was humans greatest existential threat and was like summoning a Demon.
Facts About Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar is a name many of us are familiar with. However, do we know anything else besides the fact that he met his end on the Ides of March? Early Life Gaius Julius Caesar, or Julius Caesar as we know him, was born into a noble family in Rome in 100BC. Noble does not […]
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Albert Battel, a German officer serving in the Wehrmacht during WWII…
Albert Battel, a German officer serving in the Wehrmacht during WWII, commanded his whole unit to protect Jews and threatened the SS to kill them if they crossed a bridge into a Jewish ghetto to round them up.
Colonel Sanders got fired from a dozen jobs; was a lawyer who once assaulted…
Colonel Sanders got fired from a dozen jobs; was a lawyer who once assaulted his own client in court; started a restaurant that when went out of business and found himself broke at the age of 65. That’s when he started KFC.
Low gravity makes it difficult to tell if your bladder is full, because…
Low gravity makes it difficult to tell if your bladder is full, because the bladder’s stretch receptor nerves don’t feel the weight of the liquid. Astronauts are trained to empty their bladders every two hours because of this.