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14 Amazing Facts About The World

Fascinating facts about our fascinating world to feed your brain.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 5 years ago in Wow

Fascinating facts about our fascinating world to feed your brain.
  • 1

    Poon Lim survived 133 days adrift in the Pacific ocean on a 8' square wooden raft.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 2

    In 1916 there was a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 3

    A man named Dean Karnazes is able to run 350 miles in under 81 hours without sleep.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 4

    The first person in history whose name we know is Kushim, who was an accountant.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 5

    In Japan houses are considered depreciating assets. All homes are destroyed by the time they are 38 and rebuilt.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 6

    In 1992 a man named Stefan Mandel won a $27,036,142 jackpot by buying every single combination possible.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 7

    EVE Online hired an economist to oversee the in-game money.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 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.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 9

    Salvador Dali would avoid paying his tabs by drawing on the checks he wrote, making the checks a valuable piece of art.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 10

    A Manhattan driver set a record by hitting 240 consecutive green lights.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 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.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 12

    The Kingdom of Bhutan only has one international airport, and only a select number of pilots are certified to land there.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 13

    Sylvester Stallone kept the two turtles from the 1976 movie Rocky, and they are still alive today at 44.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

  • 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.

    14 Amazing Facts About The World

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