41 Crazy Random Facts That’ll Enrich Your Knowledge | Random List #203

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1Andrew Stanton

Andrew Stanton

As production of Toy Story wrapped up in 1994, Pixar writer Andrew Stanton asked his coworkers during a brainstorming session, “What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?” 14 years later he answered his own question with the movie WALL-E in 2008.


2. In the late Classical Era of Greece, women-owned 35% of the land and property in Sparta. When a woman's husband died (usually in battle), his land and property passed to the wife, not to the oldest male.


3. In 2009, a retired policeman named Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergele Hospital in North Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman who was also named Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK named Geraint Woolford.


4. Purse makers didn't want Snooki From "Jersey Shore" carrying their purses, so they sent her new purses, from their competitors, for free.


5. British Commander Terence Otway, wanted to be sure his men wouldn’t leak the D-Day plans. He tested them by sending 30 pretty members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in civilian clothes to the local pubs with instructions to do all they could to try and get the information, but none of the men fell for it.


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6Ancient microorganisms

Ancient microorganisms

There are microorganisms living on the seafloor that reproduce only once every 10,000 years and have been alive for millions. These are likely the oldest living things on Earth.


7. Dogs can tell time by smell. They can smell different times of the day, and how long you have been gone by how much your (owner's) smell has dissipated since you have left.


8. An animal shelter in Maricopa County, Arizona, has a program where you can spend your 4th of July comforting the animals and keeping them calm during the loud fireworks.


9. Birds are able to see and use the Earth's Magnetic field to migrate due to a protein in their eyes called CRY4. To them, the Earth's Magnetic field appears to be a bright haze in the sky in the direction of North or South. Their brain even produces this protein during the migration season.


10. An ancient Greek philosopher named Anaxagoras was exiled for claiming the moon was a rock, not a God.


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11Fake Big Brother

Fake Big Brother

In 2009, nine women were rescued from what they thought was a Big Brother reality show house but turned out to be a criminal organization.


12. The staff of the 9/11 memorial place white roses on the names of any victims who would have been celebrating a birthday.


13. The popular MMO EVE Online hired an economist to oversee the in-game money. Besides writing internal reports, he occasionally intervenes to prevent inflation and unintended market consequences. EVE has about 500,000 users who partake in the game's hyper-libertarian online economy.


14. "Hey Jude" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" were both recorded using the same piano.


15. There exists a bodyguard crew of rangers in Belize, known as the Scarlet Six Biomonitoring Team, who camp out in inclement weather, night and day for the 5-month long portion of the Scarlet Macaw breeding season when chicks are being cared for, dedicated to stopping insane poaching levels.


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16Kemal Atatürk

Kemal Atatürk

Former President of Turkey Kemal Atatürk gave his adopted daughter Sabiha, a surname that translated as 'belonging to the sky'. She soon developed a passion for flying and went on to become the world's first female combat pilot.


17. The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant was much closer to the epicenter of the 2011 Earthquake than the Fukushima Power Plant, yet it sustained only minor damage and even housed tsunami evacuees. Its safety is credited to engineer Hirai Yanosuke who insisted it have a 14 meter (46 feet) tall sea wall.


18. 700,000-year-old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them.


19. A 20th-century biologist discovered so many species of moths that he simply named them E. bobana, E. cocana, E. dodana, E. fofana, E. hohana, E. kokana, E. lolana and E. momana.


20. A library in Herculaneum was burned and buried in 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. For more than 250 years, scholars have been unrolling/attempting to decipher recovered manuscripts from the only antiquarian library ever recovered. The site was never fully excavated; it is assumed more are still buried.


21York

York

York, William Clark's slave, was one of the first Africans that the Native Americans West of the Mississippi River met. They tried to wash the blackness off of him, and when they discovered that he was, in fact, human they respected his strength.


22. Late Malaysian billionaire Lee Shin Cheng applied for a job at Dunlop Estates, an English plantation company, in the 60s but was rejected for his poor English. 20 years later, he bought the Dunlop Estates.


23. In 2011, a man named Kipp Rusty Walker killed himself in public while at an open mic night at an Oregon coffee shop. Shortly before he stabbed himself, he played a song called “Sorry for all the mess.”


24. Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese is a large target of organized crime in Italy. From 2013 to 2015 an organized crime gang stole 2039 wheels of it from warehouses in northern and central Italy.


25. Olympus Mons, the tallest known volcano in the solar system, has such a gradual slope that someone standing at its base wouldn’t be able to see the summit as it would be beyond the horizon.

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