While filming the movie “Entebbe,” about a plane being hijacked, a plane was actually hijacked and landed at the airport. They filmed the real hostages being released and edited it into the movie.
The first manager of the first…
The first manager of the first McDonald’s franchise was called Ed MacLuckie.
Lin Ching Lan is a deaf Taiwanese…
Lin Ching Lan is a deaf Taiwanese professional dancer and choreographer who feels the vibrations of music through wooden floors.
A cyberchondriac is someone…
A cyberchondriac is someone who scours the Internet looking for details of their illnesses.
Actor Frankie Muniz suffers from…
Actor Frankie Muniz suffers from long term memory loss and doesn’t remember being on Malcolm in the Middle.
When you first meet people it is common….
When you first meet people it is common to forget their names – a phenomenon called the ‘next-in-line’ effect. This is because people are too worried about themselves, and what they’ll say next, to focus on remembering the names of people they’re introduced to.
If you want to learn about…
If you want to learn about monsters and ghouls in real life, you can get a PhD in Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh.
People who think their opinion…
People who think their opinions are superior to others may be most prone to overestimating their relevant knowledge and ignoring chances to learn more, a study found.
The first person to stream…
The first person to stream their life on the internet was Jennifer Ringley aka Jennicam, a 19 year old woman who from 1996, broadcasted her life from her college dorm room 24/7. At its peak, she got 7 million hits per day, a significant proportion of the internet at the time.
When the Pope visited…
When the Pope visited Arizona in 1987, 75,000 attended mass at a local university’s stadium. The name of the stadium and the image of the mascot had to be covered because their mascot is the devil holding a pitchfork and the stadium’s name was Sun Devil Stadium.