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The tradition of breaking the wishbone has its roots in Etruscan belief, which predates the Roman Empire. The Etruscans considered chickens as oracles capable of predicting the future.

Jeff Bezos funded a team that searched the Atlantic Ocean for discarded NASA rockets. By 2013, the team salvaged two rockets. After careful inspection, the team realized they found part of the rockets used to carry Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon on Apollo 11.

Humans can hear the difference between hot and cold water being poured.

In the comic event “Fear Itself”, Tony Stark built a suit of Iron Man armor out of the same magical Asgardian metal used to create Thor’s hammer. It is known as the Iron Destroyer Armor.

Soldiers in the U.S. military's psychological warfare department (PSYOPS) used loudspeakers to tempt enemy fighters in Afghanistan into battles they couldn't win by calling them," lady men" and "cowardly dogs".

Ancient Egyptians used meteorites as jewelry

Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver. It was used as early as the 3000 BCE in Egypt, as an exterior coating to the pyramidions atop pyramids and obelisks. The first metal coins ever made were of electrum and for a few decades, the Nobel Prize medals were too.

Nikola Tesla originally expected to live to 150 years. However, after he gave up alcohol due to prohibition, he revised this estimate to 135 years. He regularly exposed himself to high voltages, believing it would aid in his longevity.

Before becoming a professional wrestling referee, American video game developer Aubrey Edwards spent more than six years at 5th Cell working on the Scribblenauts videogame series. She started as a tool programmer on the original game and eventually became lead producer for the 2012 Wii U launch title Scribblenauts Unlimited. Edwards began refereeing in 2017, appeared at WWE events in 2018, and signed with All Elite Wrestling on September 1, 2019, as the promotion's first full-time female referee.

In 1986, when a 5-year-old boy named Levan Merritt fell into a gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness, a male gorilla named Jambo stood between the boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture. He even stroked the boy’s back. This incident helped create a positive public perception of gorillas.