1Blind people
Blind people may detect and respond to light if it is a kind of sky-blue light at 481nm. "There is more to the eye than rods and cones — the discovery of a third photoreceptor is rewriting the visual rulebook."
2. It is impossible to predict the paths of colliding billiard balls after only a few collisions. Tiny differences in initial positions accumulate to such a degree that by the sixth or seventh collision even the force of gravity from people standing near the pool table changes the outcome.
3. Male billy goats smell so bad because they urinate on their own head, beard, and front legs to smell more attractive to females during their mating season.
4. Migros which is Switzerland's largest retail company gives a share to every Swiss adult for free, allowing them to vote in general assemblies. Furthermore, if the earnings before interest/taxes exceed 5%, the supermarkets are forced to lower their prices.
5. "Sherpa" is an ethnic group and not a job title for those assisting people with climbing mountains.
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6Dollar Baby
Stephen King has a system where he will license his short stories to aspiring filmmakers for just $1. This gives the filmmakers an affordable source material. These are referred to as "Dollar Babies."
7. Researchers have found 37 million-year-old fossils of a “Mega Penguin” in Antarctic that stood over 6 feet tall and weighed in at over 250lbs.
8. When Israel got attacked during the Yom Kippur war, the fact that it was a holiday likely helped rather than hindering their response. Since roadways were clear and most folks were together in synagogue, the military was able to better mobilize reserve forces more quickly.
9. A skeleton from 7150 B.C., found in an English cave was a DNA match for a history teacher named Adrian Targett living nearby.
10. Martin Luther King had really bad handwriting, and after his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was smuggled out of jail on scraps of paper, his deputy Wyatt Tee Walker typed it up because he was the only one who could read it.
11David Bamberger
A former fried chicken tycoon named David Bamberger turned rancher that bought and restored 5,500 acres of the most badly damaged, overgrazed land in all of Texas, restored it completely and transformed it into a showpiece for environmental restoration.
12. Babies don't have object permanence, meaning the concept of something existing without them perceiving it is foreign to them. Anything they can't see, doesn't exist.
13. During the Punic Wars, the Romans realized they had no clue how to build ships. They decided to rent row boats, run aground a Carthaginian ship, and plagiarize the designs. The entire first fleet of their new Navy was based off this ship, but learning to row proved more challenging.
14. Lady Gaga has been named godmother to Elton John and husband David Furnish’s baby son Elijah. The pop singer is already the godmother to John and Furnish’s two-year-old, Zachary, and the couple were so impressed with her guidance that they doubled down on Gaga’s godmother duties.
15. Sour Patch Kids were originally called Mars Men, but the name changed in 1985 to capitalize on the popularity of Cabbage Patch Kids.
16Alice Cooper
American singer-songwriter Alice Cooper used to babysit Canadian actor Keanu Reeves.
17. When coffee first appeared in the Ottoman Empire, it was considered a drug and its consumption was forbidden.
18. China was one of the only places in the world that did not release Elvis Presley's music at the time of its initial release. The few Elvis fans who managed to get their hands on his records often saw the material set ablaze by Red Guards and the government denounced his music as pornography.
19. Tenzing Norgay was one of the first two men who reached Mount Everest. He didn't know when his exact birthday was. After his ascent of Everest on 29 May 1953, he decided to celebrate his birthday on that day thereafter.
20. Chanel's directors were Jewish. During the Nazi invasion of France Coco Chanel used her position as an “Aryan” to claim sole ownership. The Wertheimers, anticipating the move, turned the control over to a Christian French businessman who, after the war, returned the company to them.
21Daddy long legs
Daddy long legs is actually not one of the most venomous spiders in the world as it lacks big enough fangs to bite. Its fangs are as long as a recluse, they lack venom, and they are harvestmen, not even spiders.
22. Over 60 old police cars were purchased for the making of the 1980 movie Blues Brothers' chase scenes, and none of them survived.
23. The Akan people of Ghana consider the second twin to be born as the elder, as they were mature enough to help their sibling out first.
24. France has a law allowing colleagues to gift days off for parents of seriously ill children.
25. A woman escaped a serial killer (David Parker Ray) who’d held her captive for 3 days, by waiting until he had left for work, then used a key an accomplice had left behind to unlock her chains. She then fought the accomplice, stabbing them with an ice-pick, before running out. It led to the killer's arrest.
