50 Cool Facts To Satisfy Your Obsessive Need To Know Everything

The goodest of boys

That’s a true hero!

You go, Luna!

As it should be.

Dear USA: Why not make that national?

Another goodness boi❣️

Except in the 2004 Athens Olympics when they entered last because the host nation always enters last. Another interesting thing about the Parade of Nations for the Athens Olympics is that the Nations entered in alphabetical order according to the Greek alphabet.

Basically a beautiful case of loophole abuse. Despite being born and raised in America she had Hungarian descent, and since there were no other half pipe skiers from Hungary they accepted her on their team. as stated she simply went to events where she would be guaranteed to qualify. Then she met the most basic standard, just don’t fall. Nice way to get a free trip to the Olympics 💁‍♂️

Apparently, not all Coke kills.

Well technically, he wasn't actually driving...

"I purr for my own reasons. You soft can openers can interpret it anyway you want ... and you'll be wrong."

That’s so cool!

😃

Anyone else want to label that picture, "Fig: Newton"?

:'(

And people in big a*s pickups

I've sat at that exact table there on the left. Also, Sedona was named after a woman, who with her husband opened the first post office in the area. It was her husband who suggested naming the town 'Sedona' after the first name they chose was rejected by the government postal whatever for being too long. Sedona (the person) was born in Missouri and her name was made up by her mother. And yes, I'm very badly paraphrasing an article I read so I'm not claiming 100% accuracy of the details

Let's say he wrote the words down.

Good for Pepsi.

It's more a sort of a salary rather than a prize with all the pages we are supposed to read

Which means that everyone has African ancestry! But how to convince all the racist a-holes?

Yet more likely to die earlier according to earlier post

That is the most depressing way to cheat.

Poor little guy!

Why did Constantinople get the works? It’s nobody’s business but the Turks.

There are actually a lot of roads like this, including until recently one at Mt St Michel, France, the conical city that inspired Lord of the Ring's Gondor.

I remember the time I dropped my Nokia phone from a second floor window. There was the tiniest of cracks. To this day, every time I visit my parents' house my father still reminds me of that crack. It has been over twenty years and it drives me nuts. I tell him that if it bothers him so much, he can change the tiles of the floor whenever he wants.

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Göran Kropp. The full story is even more impressive. All the teams planning to summit and decided to let him go first. He didn't summit, climbed back down, and missed being a victim of the 1996 disaster. He climbed back up to help find the victims and bring supplies. Then, after a rest, he climbed again and go to the summit. Then he rode his bike part way back to Sweden.

Why is my brain so focused on wanting to know where he stored his bike while he went up the mountain? Cos it would have totally sucked if, when he got back down, some bastard had stolen it.

There needs to be a movie of this if there isn't already. I Googled him and he unfortunately died after falling during a climb in 2002.

Impressive, but I don't recommend it.

So he said

Forrest Gümp

Is there proof of this?

He told his wife he was going out for a pack of cigs.

... and then, did he propose?

Now they're no longer from the same source as they had a falling out. The farmer now supplies a competitor.

I kind of hope it stays that way. There must be many undiscovered species that exist quite happily without the destructive influence of humans.

Wait, when does this occur? How MUCH later?

Was her name Jenny I kinda hope it was.

But what if... and just hear me out: a mosquito stung these dinosaurs. The mosquito then landed on the branch of a tree and get stuck in the sap. After a long time the tree sap would become fossilised preserving the mosquito in amber... ?

While true, a lot of that is still Western rubbish, after being shipped there for processing. And it would be facetious to pretend they didn't know it wouldn't be dealt with properly.

My ex- was born from a frozen embryo but the thawing never rreached her heart

It's-a me, Warihouse

Erm, Blendo competed. And won several times. Was destroyed by an arena trap.

I wonder a) will we have the technology, or indeed existing copies in 100 years? And b) slightly pessimistically, will humanity still exist in any meaningful form that will value watching John Malkovich movies?

His name was Barry Kidston. He was trying to synthesise MPPP as a 'legal recreational d.rug', and injected the result. MPTP can be accidentally synthesised as an impurity in the process and contaminate the MPPP. MPTP is not neurotoxic in itself, but it can cross the blood-brain barrier, where it is metabolised into MPP+, which causes rapid Parkinsonism.

That’s actually pretty sad.😔

It’s not a problem if it costs more to manufacture currency than its face value. Currency is used more than once. Over the years a single currency item can clock up transactions totalling hugely more than its face value.

I looked up how the FDA classifies IRN-BRU, but I couldn't find anything. I wonder how those 32 flavours would be classified.

Well, that totally sucks.

and THAT should tell you all you need to know.

Welp, I'm going out first...

Sad, but also WTF? Rapunzel did not eat her hair in either the Disney or Grimm versions.

So…did they leave it or what?

That’s actually kind of cruel. Bees population are rapidly decreasing so 15 stings a day is 15 dead a day.