1 Fight Club Premiere Audience Reaction
When “Fight Club” premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, the audience booed it heavily. Ed Norton recalled that, during the commotion, Brad Pitt turned to him and said, “That’s the best movie I’m ever going to be in.”
2. After Stan Lee’s death, it was revealed that the famous Marvel Comics writer had suffered elder abuse at the hands of various handlers and family members. They isolated him from other family members and dismissed his long-serving accountants, lawyers, and caretakers.
3. During the Apollo 13 mission, astronaut Jack Swigert realized he had forgotten to file his tax return. NASA reached out to the IRS, who granted him a deadline extension due to his status as “out of the country.”
4. In 2017, a 71-year-old Australian man named Bernard Gore was supposed to meet his wife and daughter at a mall in Sydney after running some errands. Instead, he exited through a door that led to a labyrinth of stairwells and was found dead three weeks later after failing to find his way out.
5. In 2016, Edgar Latulip, a man missing for nearly 30 years, was found alive and living just 80 miles from where he had disappeared. Latulip helped solve his own case by telling a social worker that he had a flashback and remembered his name. He had disappeared in 1986 at the age of 21, reportedly suffering from major memory loss due to a head injury.
6 Teen Escapes Serial Killer’s Captivity
Serial killer Richard Evonitz kidnapped, assaulted, and subjected 15-year-old Kara Robinson from South Carolina to an 18-hour ordeal in 2002. She escaped his captivity by manipulating him into lowering his guard. She subsequently helped police identify him by memorizing key details of her surroundings.
7. A single direct shell from a North Korean 155mm gun battery struck the USS Wisconsin in 1952. Although the damage was minimal, Wisconsin retaliated with all nine of its Mark 7 16-inch guns, completely obliterating the North Korean battery. A nearby escort ship humorously signaled, “Temper, temper.”
8. Iceberg lettuce consists of 96% water, giving it virtually no nutritional value and providing only trace amounts of vitamins and minerals.
9. The 2nd-century Roman Emperor Hadrian, during a fit of rage, once stabbed a slave in the eye with a pen. After calming down and feeling remorseful, he called the slave and offered him anything as compensation. The slave replied, “I just want my eye back.”
10. Jack Black didn’t learn to play the guitar until he was 23 years old. His friend Kyle Gass taught him in exchange for food, mostly from the fast-food chain Jack in the Box.
11 Disney Tried Trademarking “Seal Team 6”
The Walt Disney Company attempted to trademark the name “Seal Team 6” the day after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
12. Early TV remotes operated with a spring-loaded hammer that struck a solid aluminum rod, emitting an ultrasonic frequency. These devices required no batteries.
13. Mozart, who died at 35, composed 800 pieces of music, averaging 22 pieces per year throughout his life.
14. In Austin, Texas, it was legal to build apartments without windows until April 2024, and landlords frequently neglected to mention this in advertisements.
15. Male peacocks create fake mating calls to appear more popular and therefore increase their chances of attracting females.
16 Accidental Invention of DJ Scratching
When Grand Wizzard Theodore was playing records loudly in 1975, he invented DJ scratching. His mother scolded him, causing him to accidentally hold the record still and move it back and forth. He liked the sound and developed it into scratching.
17. In 2001, King Mswati III of Eswatini imposed a ban on sex with girls under 18. Two months later, he married his ninth wife, who was 17, and fined himself “one cow” for breaking the law. In 2005, he repealed the law to marry another 17-year-old, and three months later, he married an 18-year-old.
18. A study found that women’s pockets across 80 pairs of jeans are generally half the size of men’s pockets for the same brand. Only 40% of them can comfortably fit an iPhone X, and only 10% can fit a full hand, while 100% of men’s jeans can fit either of them.
19. Japan’s monarchy is the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world, recognizing 126 monarchs and dating back to February 11, 660 BCE, with mythical beginnings. However, the current dynasty lacks a family name and is simply known as the Imperial House.
20. Randy Savage, a.k.a. Macho Man, died from a heart attack while driving with his wife. An autopsy revealed that his coronary artery was 90% blocked.
15 Most Controversial & Costly Blunders in History
21 Kevin Costner Tried “Tombstone” Blacklisting
After Kevin Costner declined the lead role in Tombstone to develop what became the film Wyatt Earp, he attempted to “blacklist” Tombstone by commandeering every Western costume in Hollywood. Despite this, Tombstone was better received and made more money than Wyatt Earp on a smaller budget.
22. The codes that allow the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack are printed on a plastic card nicknamed “the biscuit.” The president is expected to carry the biscuit at all times.
23. Due to a dysfunction of the ABCCII gene, the majority of Asians produce significantly less body odor than other populations.
24. Chinstrap penguins take more than 10,000 micronaps a day, each lasting an average of 4 seconds, resulting in over 11 hours of daily sleep.
25. In 2021, an organization called The Tip Project attempted to introduce American tipping practices into Japanese culture. The plan received severe backlash from locals, who considered the practice “un-Japanese,” leading to the project’s abandonment in early 2023.
RE: Fact #25 (Failed Tipping Project in Japan) – I really dislike tip culture. I don’t understand why people try to make it a thing.
RE: Fact #26 (Bruce Lee’s Death from Hyponatremia?) – Or maybe it was the Equagesic he got from a friend that night, like everyone’s been saying all along.
Who’s “everyone”?
He was taking steroids for his back, which didn’t help.
RE: Fact #35 (Alcohol Banned on International Space Station) – Guess space hotels and casinos aren’t happening anytime soon.
Engineers will figure out how to make booze in space, I’m sure of it.
RE: Fact #41 (Naked Defender Stuns Goths in 378 A.D.) – He totally outdid the Goths! And it worked, because they never captured the city.
RE: Fact #33 (De Gaulle Told of D-Day Two Days Prior) – So, was it just the British and US leaders who didn’t believe him, or were there other French folks who weren’t telling him the whole story?
There were actually a bunch of other French leaders, but by the time of D-day they were either kissing up to de Gaulle or had been bumped off. Roosevelt and Churchill kept trying to put someone else in charge, hoping for someone easier to deal with. They were also freaked out that the French government had basically crumbled and some random colonel had just declared himself the boss. Once the Allies invaded France, they put a lot of pressure on de Gaulle to hold elections right away, even while some parts of the country were still under Nazi control. He was really ticked off about that.
RE: Fact #43 (Caligula Made Senators Run Miles) – He’s been reincarnated as every high school gym teacher.
RE: Fact #9 (Hadrian’s Slave Requests Eye Back) – Hadrian was a good emperor, right? Makes you wonder what the bad ones were like!
RE: Fact #27 (Couple Survived 117 Days at Sea) – The more I read about survival situations like this, the more I’m convinced I’d be the first to go. I’d probably be all, “Go ahead and eat me,” and everyone would be like, “Dude, we just got on the raft! We can totally see the beach!”
RE: Fact #14 (Windowless Apartments Legal Until 2024) – I stayed in this Airbnb once, it was in a converted warehouse. They’d crammed every bit of space into rentals, long and short term, with the regular tenants along the outside walls. All the short-term stays were stuck in the middle with no windows. It felt like a fancy jail.
RE: Fact #28 (Zombie Fires Burn Underground in Winter) – It’s probably because of the ember. My grandma used to cook with wood, and after she was done, she’d cover the embers with ashes. Then, the next day, she’d just brush off the ashes, and the embers were still good to go! She’d use those to start a fire again and repeat the whole process.
Sometimes the fire doesn’t really go out, it just keeps smoldering. A tree might burn up completely, but its roots can be huge, even bigger than the tree’s branches. Those roots can keep smoldering underground for months, and then they can spark a new fire in another tree’s roots, or even in some brush or grass. That’s how you can get a new fire popping up out of nowhere.
By the way, don’t even think about walking through a forest that just burned down. You could easily fall into an ash hole. That’s a hole where a tree used to be, and it’s made because the roots burned up. They’re really hard to see because everything looks like a giant pile of ash. You won’t even know they’re there! And they can stay hot for weeks, so if you fall into one, you’re going to get burned.
RE: Fact #47 (Darker Skin Requires More Sunlight) – That’s like choosing between two races in a game. One gets energy super fast from the sun, but gets a bad rash if they’re out too long. The other one can handle the sun way better, but takes longer to get energy.
RE: Fact #48 (Aretha Franklin’s Will Found in Couch) – It’s definitely smart to get a formal will, even if you’re not super wealthy. Those handwritten ones can be okay, but a real will will make things way easier for your family later on.
RE: Fact #18 (Women’s Pockets Size Disparity) – I’ve seen jeans where the pockets were just painted or stitched on.
RE: Fact #38 (Black Teeth Custom in Japanese Paintings) – They just used black teeth to represent… black teeth, right? Like in the picture?
RE: Fact #15 (Peacocks Use Fake Mating Calls) – This peacock bragged about having a ton of supermodel girlfriends in Canada.
RE: Fact #20 (Macho Man Randy Savage’s Death) – That’s not good, but lots of people have really clogged arteries and never know it. It only becomes a problem when the main artery gets totally blocked really fast, instead of slowly over time.
RE: Fact #42 (Tossing Puffin Chicks Vital in Iceland) – Imagine a tourist seeing a bunch of people throwing baby birds off a cliff into the ocean – they’d be totally freaked out!
RE: Fact #8 (Iceberg Lettuce’s Nutritional Shortcomings) – My dog goes nuts for this stuff, she’d steal it right out of your hand! She loves how crunchy it is.
RE: Fact #36 (Cold War Paratroopers Carried Nuclear Bombs) – It’s crazy how we made it through the 50s without a huge nuclear disaster, right?
RE: Fact #38 (Black Teeth Custom in Japanese Paintings) – Seriously, you wouldn’t believe it, but women used to stain their teeth black with coal to look better! It’s wild they left that out of Shogun.
RE: Fact #46 (Pizza Elite Food in North Korea) – Is that what they eat in North Korea? Like, fancy stuff?
RE: Fact #36 (Cold War Paratroopers Carried Nuclear Bombs) – My dad was on one of those Green Light teams, carrying these things and jumping with them. He totally hated training for those missions. They used keypads and electronic detonators instead of the old mechanical ones, so you never knew how much time you had to get out of there. Plus, they split the teams in half, so he always thought they would just go off right away.
RE: Fact #4 (Lost in Mall: Tragic Death) – He had dementia, but still. How weird is it that a building would have one-way locking doors that trap you in a stairwell? You’d have to go up to the roof or down to the basement, and there weren’t even any emergency exit signs to help you out.
RE: Fact #29 (AT&T Once Blocked Non-AT&T Phones) – Back in the 80s, we used to pay a monthly fee just to *have* a phone!
RE: Fact #18 (Women’s Pockets Size Disparity) – Phones are getting huge, so JNCOs are totally gonna be back in style.
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