Henry Ford tried to build an American industrialist utopia in the Brazilian jungle, “Fordlandia”, to secure a source of cultivated rubber for his cars.
Most toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater…
Most toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater in order to conserves the city’s scarce freshwater resources.
George Harrison decided to write a song based on the first…
George Harrison decided to write a song based on the first words he read upon opening a book. He then wrote “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” after seeing the words “gently weeps” in a random book pulled from a shelf at his parent’s house.
Wisconsin Police busted a teen kegger in which the keg…
Wisconsin Police busted a teen kegger in which the keg was filled with root beer. The party organizer was trying to show that they didn’t need to drink alcohol for a party.
There are no law schools in Alaska…
There are no law schools in Alaska. It is the only state without a law school.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Equatorial Guinean Swimmer…
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Equatorial Guinean Swimmer, Eric Moussambani, swam the slowest Olympic time of all time in the 100 M freestyle at, finishing at 1:52:72.
When Australia celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first…
When Australia celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first European settlement in 1938, officials tried to hide the fact that it was a prison colony by using the terms “transportees” or “deportees” instead of “convicts”.
Nietzsche did not drink alcohol, writing that it…
Nietzsche did not drink alcohol, writing that it suppresses the will to change our lives for the better.
More than 40% of the Fortune 500 companies…
More than 40% of the Fortune 500 companies in 2010 were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant.
A Russian scientist injected himself with a 3.5 million year…
A Russian scientist injected himself with a 3.5 million year old bacteria trapped in Siberian Permafrost ‘after successful experiments on mice and fruit flies’. He says it has made him flu proof for the past two years and gave him more energy to work longer hours.