💯 Interesting Facts

💯 Interesting Facts

Introduction

In this today's blog,a quite interesting thing is that it may be the longest blog ever in my terms as it covers 💯 interesting facts which might any one know.Let keep a glance on the facts with their highlighted headings:- 

1)NAVY TEACHES CELESTIAL NAVIGATION:-

The navy is now teaching sailors Celestial Navigation as a response to potential cyber-attacks to ship's navigation systems.

2)CYBER HOMELESS IN JAPAN:-

There are a class of people in Japan referred to as Cyber Homeless who live at cyber cafes because they are a cheaper alternative than an apartment.The cafes offer free showers & sell underwear.

3) SWEDISH BLOOD DONORS RECEIVE THANKS ON TEXT MESSAGE:-

Swedish blood donors receive a thank you text after they donate blood,but they also receive a text whenever their blood is used to help someone.

4)SANTA CLAUS UNIVERSITY:-

There is a Santa Claus University that teaches professional Santa Claus skills like toy- knowledge,poses& how to avoid lawsuits.A- top level Santa Claus can make up to$100,000 a year.

5) INVENTION OF WRITING:-

Writing was likely only invented from scratch three times in history:-In the Middle East,China and Central America.All other alphabets & writing systems were either derived from or inspired by others,or were too incomplete to fully express the spoken language.

6)LARGEST SEED BANK:-

In 1941,the world's largest seed bank,created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov,was housed in Leningrad.As the Germans surrounded the city forcing a mass starvation,Vavilov's scientists refused to eat from the seed collection, instead slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.

7)APPLE WEALTH SECRET:-

If Apple didn't hold $181 billion overseas,it would owe$59 billion in US taxes.

8)NEW ZEALAND GUY MEMORISED FRENCH DICTIONARY:-

A man from New Zealand named Nigel Richards memorised the French dictionary to win the French Scrabble Championship.He can't speak French,but was able to correct his opponents when they attempted to play an incorrect word.

9)GREAT EXPERTS SIGNED A OPEN LETTER URGING A GLOBAL BAN ON AI WEAPONS SYSTEMS:-

More than 1,000 experts including Stephen Hawking,Elon Musk & Steve Wozniak have signed an open letter urging a global ban on AI WEAPONS systems.

10)TRAGEDY OF USS WEST VIRGINIA:-

When the USS West Virginia was finally raised after sunk during the bombing of Pearl Harbor,three deceased men were found in an airtight storeroom.On the calendar,16 days were crossed off in red pencil.

11)MAGIC OF BITCOINS:- 

A Norwegian student named Kristoffer Koch spent $27 on Bitcoins, forgot about them.A few years later he realised they worth$886,000.

12)A TRAGIC ACCIDENT:-

A New Zealand trucker fell onto a high pressure air valve.It punctured his left butt & inflated him to twice his size,nearly killing him.He survived,but it took three days to fart& burp out the excess air.

13)INTERESTING FACT OF YANG YUANQING :-

Lenovo's CEO Yang Yuanquing received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits in 2012 which he in- turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees.He made a similar gift of $3.25 million again in 2013.

14)INDIAN HOUSEWIVES HOLDING GOLD:-

Indian housewives hold 11% of the world's gold .That is more than the reserves of the USA,IMF, Switzerland & Germany put together.

15)THE LUCK BUGGER:-

For his time as James Bond, Daniel Craig has the privilege of taking any Aston Martin from the factory for the rest of his life.

16)MARVELOUS STEP OF CATERPILLAR IN THE TRANSFORMATION IN BUTTERFLY:-

During the process of becoming a butterfly,the entire caterpillar will break down into a liquid.

17)QUALIFICATION NEEDED FOR BLACK CAB DRIVER:-

To be a London black cab driver,one is expected to know over 25,000 roads and 50,000 points of interest and pass a test called 'The knowledge'.To pass the exam the applicants need twelve appearances and 34 months of preparation.

18)A WEIRD EXPERIMENT:-

In 1956,the US government set many containers of beer next to two atomic bombs that were detonated to determine if the bear was still drinkable.Their conclusion:-In the event of nuclear war beer is perfectly safe to drink.

19)INFLATION STORY OF RUSSIA:-

In Russia,during times of economic disparity or high inflation,teachers in the remote regions were paid in Vodka.

20)FACT OF 'IN'-OUT BURGER:-

In 'Out Burger used to let customers as many extra patties with cheese as they wanted their burgers,until one group of 8 people ordered one burger with 100 patties which contained 19,490 calories.

21)FACT OF MANUTE BOL:-

Manute Bol, the tallest player in the history of the NBA was also the only player in the NBA to have killed a lion with a spear & have to paid 80 cows for his wife.

22)A MAN WITH BRILLIANCE:-

In 2010,a man who was lost in the woods of Northern Saskatchewan, Canada, chopped down some power lines so that workmen would have to come & rescue him,which shows his sense of brilliance even at solitary danger.

23) RHINOCEROS PARTY:- 

The Rhinoceros Party was a registered political party in Canada between the 1960&90s.It was led by Cornelius,a rhinoceros,and promised to repeal the law of gravity and change Canada's currency to bubble gum so it could be inflated or deflated at will.

24)A BANNED ARTICLE:-

In 1976,an under achieving Princeton Junior undergraduate wrote a term paper describing how to make nuclear bomb.He got an "A"but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.

25)ALL REALESES AT SAME TIME:-

In October of 1944Pulp Fiction,Forest Gump,The Shawshank Redemption & Jurassic park were all in theatres at the same time.

26)A HOTEL STILL MAINTAIN THE GOODWILL:-

In Japan there is a hotel that has been in business for more than 1,300 years& all this time it has been operated by the same family for 46 generations.

27) NUCLEAR POWER-A LIFE BRINGER:-

According to NASA, nuclear power has prevented over 2million deaths in the past 40 years  as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage.

28) ATMOSPHERE IN TITAN PLANET:-

On Titan the atmosphere is so thick & the gravity so low that humans fly though it by flapping homemade "wings" attached to their arms.

29) FACT ABOUT CHARLES "PRETTY BOY":-Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a great Depression-era gangster and notorious bank robber,endeared himself to the public by destroying mortgage papers at the banks he robbed,freeing many from their debts.

30)A WEIRD DUEL:-

In 1808,a gentlemen duel took place at 2,000 ft in a pair of hot air balloons.Each man used a blunder buss to attempt to  destroy the other's balloon.

31)A SHOCKING SURVEY:-

A survey found that 28% of IT Professionals hide their career from family and friends out of fear of being asked to provide free tech support.

32)A STRANGE ABDUCTION:-

In 2005,a 12- year old girl was abducted in Ethiopia and her captors tried to force her into an arranged marriage.She was rescued by three lions who defended her for three days from her attackers.

33)FIRST TIME MILKY WAY:-

When a massive power outage struck Southern California in the 1990s,Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead ,they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.

34)SHEARED SHEEP MAINTAIN HIERARCHY:-

Sheared sheep don't recognise each other& fight for few days afterwards to re-establish hierarchy (sequence).

35)JAPAN WEIRD DEMAND:-

When Stephen Hawking gave a lecture in Japan he was asked not to mention the possible re-collapse of the universe, billions of years into the future,for fears of the effects on the stock exchange.

36)MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL OWN CELL PHONE NETWORK:-

The Mexican drug cartels have recently been kidnapping technicians & making them build their own private cell phone network in Mexico.

37)MINI INVESTMENT BIGGER RETURNS:-

A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the US mint.

38) WEIRD BRITISH LAW:-

If a dead whale is found on a British beach,then by law,the head belongs to the king& the tail to the queen.

39) HOUSTON AIRPORT COMPLAINTS:-

Houston airport received a lot of complaints about baggage wait times.In response,they moved the baggage claim area further away so that the walk was longer than the wait, subsequently the number of complaints dropped significantly.

40) SCIENCE BEHIND ELECTRIC SHOCK:-

When people are electrocuted & thrown far distances,it is the result of sudden & violent muscle contractions,it is not caused by the shock itself.This has raised questions as to the actual strength& capabilities of the muscles in the human body.Moreover electric shock is also due to blood flow in our body as blood has the same properties of iron which makes blood the best conductor of electricity.

41)DAVID COPPERFIELD INTELLIGENCE:-

Intelligence is the power of mind(different from brain) and it is proven by David Copperfield as in 2006, David Copperfield used slight of hand to trick armed robbers into believing  he had nothing,even though he was carrying his passport,wallet&cell phone.

42)ERNEST HEMINGWAY WEIRD MYTH:-

Ernest Hemingway took a urinal from his favourite bar& moved it into his key West home, arguing that he had "pissed away" so much of his money into the urinal that he owned it.

43)"KILLING SEASON"-A MEDICAL TERM:-

"Killing Season" is a British medical term used to describe the time around August when the newly qualified doctors join the National Health Service.

44)SIEGE OF JERUSALEM:-

During the siege of Jerusalem in 1917,the British,in an effort to capture the city from an entrenched Ottoman garrison, started to airdrop cigarettes filled with large doses of Opium,hoping that the Ottomans would be too stoned to fight.It worked.

45)GERMAN-WIDELY SPOKEN IN US:-

Until it was forcibly supressed during World War 1,German was the 2nd most spoken language in the US with many local governments,schools& newspapers operating in German.