14 Amazing Facts About The World
solidsnake4545
Published
06/14/2019
in
wow
Fascinating facts about our fascinating world to feed your brain.
- List View
- Player View
- Grid View
-
1. Poon Lim survived 133 days adrift in the Pacific ocean on a 8' square wooden raft.
-
2. In 1916 there was a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote.
-
3. A man named Dean Karnazes is able to run 350 miles in under 81 hours without sleep.
-
-
4. The first person in history whose name we know is Kushim, who was an accountant.
-
5. In Japan houses are considered depreciating assets. All homes are destroyed by the time they are 38 and rebuilt.
-
6. In 1992 a man named Stefan Mandel won a $27,036,142 jackpot by buying every single combination possible.
-
-
7. EVE Online hired an economist to oversee the in-game money.
-
8. The scene in Fight Club where Tyler is explaining the cost of a recall, when a car built by a company crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, is based on actual leaked memos from GM and Ford.
-
9. Salvador Dali would avoid paying his tabs by drawing on the checks he wrote, making the checks a valuable piece of art.
-
-
10. A Manhattan driver set a record by hitting 240 consecutive green lights.
-
11. Before there were alarm clocks there were knockers-up, who were hired to shoot dried peas from a blow gun at people’s windows in order to wake them up in the morning.
-
12. The Kingdom of Bhutan only has one international airport, and only a select number of pilots are certified to land there.
-
-
13. Sylvester Stallone kept the two turtles from the 1976 movie Rocky, and they are still alive today at 44.
-
14. Pablo Escobar’s personal hitman, responsible for 3500 murders, was released from jail in 2014 and is now a YouTube personality with 1 million subscribers.
- REPLAY GALLERY
-
- 14 Amazing Facts About The World
- NEXT GALLERY
-
- 20 X-rays and Scans that are Just Plain Fascinating
Poon Lim survived 133 days adrift in the Pacific ocean on a 8' square wooden raft.
14/14
1/14
Categories:
Wow
7 Comments