33 Bizarre to Brilliant Random Facts That’ll Leave You Speechless | Random List #179

In 1909, Chicago publisher W. D. Boyce was visiting London and was lost on a foggy street when a Boy Scout helped him find his way, but refused a tip saying it was his good deed ("good turn") for the day. Four months later W. D. Boyce started Boy Scouts of America.

27. Napoleon Bonaparte signed the Louisiana Purchase in his bathtub at the Tuileries Palace. An American hotelier in Louisiana bought the tub in 2006 and put it in a hotel in New Orleans for guests to bathe in.

28. Mr. Rogers had a deep friendship with Koko, a gorilla who knew over 1000 words in sign language. He even had her on his series titled "You and I Together", dedicated to helping children get over their fears of meeting new people or being in different situations.

29. The experience of walking into a room and forgetting exactly what you came in there to do is called the Doorway Effect. Walking through an open door and entering a new room creates a "mental block" in our brains and resets the memory to make room for the creation of new memories.

30. In the 1940s President Johnson, at that time as a Congressman, he used to drive around with a snake in his trunk because he believed black people were scared of snakes. He used to go to fuel stations, get served by black guys and made them open the trunk. He was once almost beaten with a tire iron.

The Austrian Embassy in London has been at 18 Belgrave Square since 1866. It is the only Austrian embassy still in place since the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

32. Some tree species have “crown shyness” where the uppermost branches don’t touch the nearby trees resulting in gaps that resemble channels or zig-zagging.

33. Peanut butter was originally invented as a substitute for people who couldn't eat meat because of how bad their teeth were.