Because of prenatal scans and boys being the preferential gender in China. That in 20 years there will be 30-50 million men without wives in China.
Finding Nemo had the opposite effect that was intended. Despite its negative…
Finding Nemo had the opposite effect that was intended. Despite its negative portrayal of keeping fish in aquariums, the use of clownfish prompted the demand for aquariums to triple. Demand was met by large-scale harvesting of tropical fish from the wild which devastated Clownfish Populations.
George R.R. Martin’s idea for Game of Thrones began with his pet turtles…
George R.R. Martin’s idea for Game of Thrones began with his pet turtles. He said, “I decided they were all knights and kings…and I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles.”
In 2013 a cat named Cookie went missing while on holiday with his…
In 2013 a cat named Cookie went missing while on holiday with his owner in Grasse, southern France. 18 months later Cookie returned “dirty and emaciated” having traveled a journey of 700-miles, all the way home.
In the 1960s, Nichelle Nichols, the black actress that played Uhura in Star Trek…
In the 1960s, Nichelle Nichols, the black actress that played Uhura in Star Trek, wanted to quit the show. Martin Luther King, Jr. talked her out of quitting the role because he believed presenting a black woman working alongside white men would help further the goal of racial equality.
Since Ronald Reagan, each outgoing United States president has left a private…
Since Ronald Reagan, each outgoing United States president has left a private message on the Oval Office desk for the incoming president on Inauguration Day.
There is a 100-year-old woman still teaching math at her…
There is a 100-year-old woman still teaching math at her elementary school in Brooklyn.
A staff writer for The New Yorker came to the office every day …
A staff writer for The New Yorker came to the office every day from 1964 to his death in 1996 — and never published a single story.
Minutes before the Halifax Explosion, (one of the largest non…
Minutes before the Halifax Explosion, (one of the largest non-nuclear, man-made explosions) a dispatcher named Vince Coleman returned to his station to send a warning telegram, saving 300 lives at the cost of his own.
Members of the band “Good Charlotte” protested against KFC’s treatment…
Members of the band “Good Charlotte” protested against KFC’s treatment of chickens. Then in 2012 and 2013 appeared in a number of KFC commercials in Australia and even tried to set a world record for eating KFC on “Australia’s Got Talent”.