36 Pretty Wild Random Facts That Are 100% True | Random List #103

There is a military-only resort on Disney property in Florida that charges guests based on their rank.

27. A genetic condition named Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy gives people increased muscle strength and twice the usual amount of muscle mass. There are no known related health issues. Those affected from it are intellectually normal.

28. Many shoe stores in the U.S. during the 1940's-70's had shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, which were essentially X-ray machines for the feet to see how well a person’s foot fit in the shoes they were considering buying.

29. Doctors in the early 1900s thought bicycles would turn women gay.

30. The reason currency in US is green in color because U.S. Bureau of Printing and Engraving had plenty of green ink, which was durable. The color green was also associated with stability.

Luciano Leggio, the former head of the Corleonesi Mafia clan, was first convicted at the age of 18 for stealing corn. As soon as he completed a six-month sentence, he murdered the man who had reported him to the police.

32. Film producer Carl Laemmle immigrated to USA in 1884. He started one of the first movie theaters in Chicago, challenged Thomas Edison’s monopoly on films, began advertising stars to increase their earnings, founded Universal Studios and sponsored hundreds of Jews to immigrate from Nazi Germany to USA.

33. The “Drinkable Book” turns dirty water clean. Not only is it an instruction manual on how to filter water but it also has removable pages that are coated in silver nanoparticles that can be used to filter unclean water itself.

34. The croissant is not really French. It was inspired by the Austrian kipfel that dates back to at least 1227.

35. Mark Twain was obsessed with technology, writing science fiction including 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' which featured time travel. He also had a close personal friendship with Nikola Tesla and said: "a man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds".

Armageddon is a real place in Israel. It is a mountain named Megiddo that was misspelled in Greek translation to Armageddon. So everyone can visit Armageddon.