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#1/Apple paid a couple $1.7 million dollars for their plot of land, which was only worth $181,700.
While Apple was building a huge data center in the middle of North Carolina, they wanted to occupy the area of a couple that lived there for 34 years. When the couple refused to leave, Apple paid them $1.7 million dollars for their land.
#2/ Canadian say“sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.
#3/Back when dinosaurs existed, there used to be volcanoes that were erupting on the moon.
#4 /The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.
#5/One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.
#6/If a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear mate, their offspring is called a “Pizzy Bear”.
#7/In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.
#8/There were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.
#9/Nintendo trademarked the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong” in 2010.
#10 /Thefamous line in Titanic from Leonardo DiCaprio, “I’m king of the world!” was improvised.
#11/If you point your car keys to your head, it increases the remote’s signal range.
#12/There is actually a difference between coffins and caskets – coffins are typically tapered and six-sided, while caskets are rectangular.
#13/Sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Almost 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
#14/To leave a party without telling anyone is called in English, a “French Exit”. In French, it’s called a “partir à l’anglaise”, to leave like the English.
#15/If you cut down a cactus in Arizona, you be penalized up to 25 years in jail. It is similar to cutting down a protected tree species.
#16/In order to protect themselves from poachers, African Elephants have been evolving without tusks, which unfortunately also hurts their species.
#17/The scientific name for Giant Anteater is Myrmecophaga Tridactyla. This means “ant eating with three fingers”.
#18/Originally, cigarette filters were made out of cork, the look of which was incorporated into today’s pattern.
#19 /In1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
#20/At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.
#21/Iceland does not have a railway system.
#22/The largest known prime number has 17,425,170 digits. The new prime number is 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, minus 1.
#23/Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author, hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains worth over 1 million dollars. It still has not been found.
#24/In order to keep Nazis away, a Polish doctor faked a typhus outbreak. This strategy staved 8,000 people.
#25/German Chocolate Cake is named after an American baker by the name of Samuel German.
#26/The spiked dog collar was invented by the Ancient Greeks to protect their dogs from wolf attacks.
#27/Jack Daniel (the founder of the whiskey) died from kicking a safe. When he kicked it, he broke his toe which got infected. He eventually died from blood poisoning.
#28/There is a boss in Metal Gear Solid 3 that can be defeated by not playing the game for a week; or by changing the date.
#29/The Roman – Persian wars are the longest in history, lasting over 680 years. They began in 54 BC and ended in 628 AD.
#30/Elton John tried to commit suicide once by sticking his head in an oven with the gas on low and windows open. He was found and stopped by his best friend Bernie Taupin.
#31/If you translate “Jesus” from Hebrew to English, the correct translation is “Joshua”. The name “Jesus” comes from translating the name from Hebrew, to Greek, to Latin, to English.
#32/The first service animals were established in Germany during World War I. References to service animals date as far back as the mid-16th Century.
#33/An 11-year-old girl proposed the name for Pluto after the Roman god of the Underworld.
#34/The voice actor of SpongeBob and the voice actor of Karen, Plankton’s computer wife, have been married since 1995.
#35/An Italian banker, Gilberto Baschiera is considered a modern-day Robin Hood. Over the course of 7 years, he secretly diverted 1 million euros to poorer clients from the wealthy ones so they could qualify for loans. He made no profit and avoided jail in 2018 due to a plea bargain.
#36/Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.
#37/An estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand.
#38/75% of the world’s diet is produced from just 12 plant and five different animal species.
#39 /Theoriginal Star Wars premiered on just 32 screens across the U.S. in 1977. This was to produce buzz as the release widened to more theaters.
#40/Tirana, the capital of Albania has a lot of things in common with other European capitals – except one. It’s one of two capitals without a McDonalds. The second is Vatican City.
#41/Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46 and is known as the “happiest prisoner on death row”. He went into the gas chamber with a smile. It turned out he was innocent.
#42/The largest Japanese population outside of Japan stands at 1.6 million people who live in Brazil.
#43/IKEA is an acronym which stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, which is the founder’s name, farm where he grew up, and hometown.
#45 /In2009, Stephen Hawking held a reception for time travelers, but didn’t publicize it until after. This way, only those who could time travel would be able to attend. Nobody else attended.
#46/Violin bows are commonly made from horse hair.
#47/There are less than 30 ships in the Royal Canadian Navy which is less than most third-world countries.
#48/Larry the Cable Guy’s real name is Daniel Lawrence Whitney. His notable Southern accent is fake – he was born and raised in the mid-west, not the South.
#49/The youngest Pope in history was Pope Benedict IX who was 11 years old at the time of election. He is also the only person to have been the Pope more than once.
#50/When mice live in the wild, they typically only live for about six months.
This is mostly due to the fact that they have so many predators. However, in a controlled environment like being kept as a pet, they can live up to two years.
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