1Singlish Language
Singaporeans speak Singlish which sounds like broken English on purpose
2. Basically, all the literary greats in Britain around 1900 were on the same, terrible, amateur cricket team: Allahakbarries
3. The Cornish Black Honey Bee is resistant to colony collapse disorder and could spell a positive future for bee populations
4. We can use CRISPR to edit the DNA of mosquitoes and prevent them from spreading malaria. We're just waiting to pull the trigger.
5. During WW2, Time Magazine was the first to use the term "World War 2" in an issue released on September 11, 1939, 10 days after the war started. It had also used the term previously in a June 1939 issue in response to the events in Europe.
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6Chess on a Really Big Board
There is a chess variant that uses a 16×16 board called 'Chess on a Really Big Board'
7. IN 1997, the US bought Russian MIG-29's fighter jets from Moldova so Iran couldn't get the technology.
8. The cast of the 1979 science fiction horror film 'Alien' was never told about the chest burster scene in order to capture the authentic fear of the actors
9. Leicester Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's younger brother, founded a micro-nation off the coast of Jamaica in 1964 and called it New Atlantis. The micronation was destroyed by a tropical storm in 1966 and ransacked by fishermen.
10. Organic farming is significantly worse for the environment than conventional farming due to lower crop yields and toxic 'natural' pesticides, among other things
11Zeuxis
The Ancient Greek Painter Zeuxis is said to have died laughing at the humorous way he painted the goddess Aphrodite after the old woman who commissioned it insisted on modeling for the portrait.
12. The crew of an RAF Nimrod used a teapot to block a hatch gap in their plane after a mid-air fault.
13. There is a species of predator snail known as a Dogwhelk which feeds by drilling a hole in a mussel and then inserting digestive enzymes in the shell. This liquefies the flesh and they literally slurp it up like soup.
14. The Mediterranean sea was empty of water until a huge chunk of Gibraltar collapsed and waterfalls thousands of times larger than the size of Niagara Falls 'filled it up'.
15. Almost 100% of bees in southern California are Africanized
16Wyoming state
Wyoming is the only state to tax wind farms
17. There are so many laws in the United States that no one actually knows the number of laws.
18. Dolphins are used to treat Ukrainian soldiers with PTSD
19. The Ministry of Defence is one of UK's largest landowners, owning 227,300 hectares valued at £20 billion. In total, the MoD owns or has rights of access to 1.8% of the UK land mass.
20. There was a hurricane-sized storm over the Great Lakes in 1913 that killed 250 people, destroyed 19 ships, and stranded 19 others.
21Reintroduction of the Red M&M
One man started a campaign to bring back the red M&M, that campaign blew up and helped reintroduce the Red M&M
22. Blind taste testers couldn't tell the difference between American Coke and supposedly-superior sugar-sweetened Mexican Coke.
23. There are up to nine types of intelligence, and that an IQ test is not an efficient way of measuring how smart someone is, as it takes into consideration only two of them.
24. Lobsters and certain other animals/plant life can live forever if unaffected by disease or predators.
25. During World War 1, many women in the UK who were involved in manufacturing TNT turned yellowish, gaining the nickname "Canary Girls", because of their yellow coloured skin and because of the canaries used in the mines to warn of toxic substances.
