37 Enjoyable Random Facts To Start You Day – 14

Hannibal Lecter was inspired by grotesque serial killings between 1974 and 1985 where seven couples were murdered while making love in parked cars in the hills of Florence, Italian. The case was never solved. Thomas Harris borrowed elements for his Hannibal Lecter novels.

27. Manchester University ran "Turing's Sunflowers", a community project to finish Alan Turing's work on plant morphology

28. In 1985, Freddy Mercury released an album dedicated to his cats, with liner notes: “..to my cat Jerry - also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe. Screw everybody else!”

29. Park Jee Young was a young woman who sacrificed her life to save others during the Sinking of MV Sewol in 2014.

30. Kim Dotcom was the number one player of Modern Warfare 3 in the world prior to his arrest in 2012

Kenny G holds the Guinness Book of World Records award for the longest-held musical note, at 45 minutes and 47 seconds. He used a technique known as circular breathing.

32. The opening scene of Full Metal Jacket was almost entirely improv and filmed in one take.

33. Phil Morgese, a single dad who was given full custody of his young daughter, taught himself how to do her hair, and started a free bi-weekly class to teach other dads and daughters how to do everything from detangling long locks to coil hair into buns.

34. Genders of articles affect the way users perceive objects. When asked to describe a "key" (a masculine word in Deutch and feminine in Spanish) Deutch speakers used words like "hard," "jagged," "metal," and Spanish speakers used words like "little," "lovely," "shiny," All testing was in English

35. Teller started the practice of being silent during performances to avoid being heckled at frats while in college.

The kilogram is the only unit of measurement that is still based on a physical object, a Platinum-Iridium cylinder.

37. The reason for Power Girl's enormous breasts is due to the artist believing his editors were not paying attention to anything he did. Eight issues later, they noticed.