In the Soviet Union you would have to take your window wipers with you when you parked your car or they would be stolen due to a shortage of auto parts. 10
In the Soviet Union you…
A high school in Nunavut…
A high school in Nunavut, Canada takes students on fox trapping sessions, offers polar bear body parts for science class, and has events where students skin seal meat for elders. 10
The actor who played Luca Brasi…
The actor who played Luca Brasi in the Godfather was actually a member of the Colombo crime family sent to monitor the set. Coppola kept the cameras rolling as the actor nervously practiced his lines for the scene, scared that he was going to mess up the big Hollywood movie. He later edited that footage […]
Martin Luther King Jr….
Martin Luther King Jr. said he experienced far more hatred in Chicago than he ever did in Alabama or Mississippi. King took part of the Chicago Housing Movement in August 1966 with thousands of local whites jeering, throwing bricks, and displaying Confederate and Nazi signs all over the city. 00
Neil Harbisson is the first…
Neil Harbisson is the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull and officially recognized as a cyborg by a government. 00
The instant noodle was…
The instant noodle was invented during a period of food shortages in Japan following WWII. After the Japanese health ministry supplied the population with wheat flour and asked them to make bread, Momofuku Ando instead decided on making noodles (which were more familiar) that would last. 10
In 2016, ‘Getty Images’ sold some…
In 2016, ‘Getty Images’ sold some of the 100,000+ photos that had been donated, royalty-free, to the Library of Congress by the original photographer and Getty Images then demanded payment from the photographer, for using the photos she owned. She sued them (unsuccessfully) for over $1 billion. 10
The US Govt. used shell…
The US Govt. used shell companies to import Titanium from the Soviet Union, to build the Blackbird SR-71, so they could spy on the Soviet Union. 10
There is the art movement called…
There is the art movement called Accidentalism, in which a portrait is painted first, and only after the work is done a person is looked for that looks like the one in the painting. There are still portraits that have not found a subject yet. 10
The alignment of planets…
The alignment of planets in our solar system that allowed us to launch Voyager spacecraft out of our solar system at the speed it went only happens once every 176 years. “The last time this happened, Thomas Jefferson was president, and he blew it.” — Tom Paine, Former NASA Administrator 10