Wounded Viking warriors were given strong onion soup. After a few minutes someone would smell the wounds and if onions could be detected it meant that there were serious abdominal injuries and that death was inevitable.
At one point during Russian special purpose forces training…
At one point during Russian special purpose forces training, the trainees are shot at the chest while wearing body armor to give them a taste of the real battlefield.
Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey launched a ‘Great Building Campaign’…
Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey launched a ‘Great Building Campaign’ during the Great Depression with the aim of employing more people. When he was told that a steam shovel being used on a project did the work of 40 men, he instructed his foreman: “Take them off. Hire 40 men.”
Calling football “soccer” originated in Britain…
Calling football “soccer” originated in Britain 200 years ago. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Britain began to phase out the name because it was “too American”.
In 2000 a man looking for a barber chair…
In 2000 a man looking for a barber chair at a garage sale purchased a two deteriorated boxes of items for $45. He later found the boxes contained 65 glass plate negatives from photographer Ansel Adams worth $200 million.
A Listerine mouthwash ad from the 1920s coined the phrase….
A Listerine mouthwash ad from the 1920s coined the phrase, “Often a bridesmaid but never a bride” to describe women with bad breath.
Plants can ‘hear’ flowing water: plant roots seek…
Plants can ‘hear’ flowing water: plant roots seek out buried pipes through which water flows even if the exterior of the pipe is dry.
The Solar System could support 10 quadrillion…
The Solar System could support 10 quadrillion human beings with the utilization of asteroid resources. A single asteroid can contain US$20 trillion worth of metals.
There’s a nursing home in Seattle that brings in kids to play…
There’s a nursing home in Seattle that brings in kids to play with the elderly. It improves the daily lives of the residents and makes the kids less likely to be ageist later in life.
David Barrett, an aeronautics engineer, resigned abruptly after seeing…
David Barrett, an aeronautics engineer, resigned abruptly after seeing a vision of Jesus, spent 40 years single-handedly compiling the first and only complete list of Earth’s 10,000 existing religions and 33,830 denominations of Christianity. This led him to all 238 countries on Earth.