1Art game
People used to gather around paintings at well-to-do parties identifying hard-to-spot things for fun, a game that was essentially I Spy but for the wealthy and educated.
2. The Honus Wagner card is the most expensive baseball card in the world. It is so rare because it was sold by the 'American Tobacco Company'. Wagner was a nonsmoker and he threatened to seek legal action against ATC so they stopped producing it.
3. Anthony Hopkins composed a waltz in 1964 that was only released years later. The famous actor was afraid that nobody would like it and therefore never got to hear it being played up until 2011 thanks to André Rieu - a Dutch violinist who got sent the music sheets by Hopkins' wife.
4. Burmese pythons have overrun the Florida Everglades partly as a result of Hurricane Andrew destroying a breeding facility in 1992, which released hundreds of snakes.
5. After being stung by the Warrior Wasp, sting pain index creator Justin Schmidt described the pain as, “torture, like you are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?”
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6Hugh Hefner and Marilyn Monroe
Hugh Hefner published nude pictures of Marilyn Monroe without her permission in the first edition of Playboy magazine. He later purchased the crypt beside her's even though they had never met in life.
7. Both of Jon Hamm's parents passed away by the time he turned 20 and when he was 24 he moved to Los Angeles with nothing but his car and $150 to pursue acting.
8. The Inuit way to teach kids to control anger is by using storytelling to discipline and not acting out.
9. 2 students were arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison, in Portugal for "raising a toast to freedom" in 1960. The news of this inspired British lawyer Peter Benenson to lay down the foundation for one of the largest human rights organizations in the world, the Amnesty International.
10. When foxes discovered fairy penguins on a small Australian island, they nearly wiped the colony out. A chicken farmer named Swampy Marsh then began sending Maremma dogs to protect the birds. Over the next 10 years, not a single penguin was killed by a fox.
11Fruit tree
Hitting a fruit tree can make it feel threatened, spurring it to produce more or larger fruit to distribute seeds before dying.
12. 150 people die each year from falling coconuts, compared to 5 a year from shark attacks. One newspaper in Australia dubbed coconuts "the killer fruit."
13. Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency.
14. Fresh, sealed meat would be purple. So meat packagers add carbon monoxide to turn it bright red.
15. Leslie David Baker, who played Stanley Hudson on “The Office,” was a teacher for special needs children before he was an actor.
16Red lights
The average person will spend 4 months of their life just waiting for red lights to change to green.
17. In 1988, McDonald’s gave out flexi-disc records where a group of singers rapped the entire McDonalds menu. “The McDonald’s Menu Song” was an instant-win promotion. If you could memorize it and played it through to the end without making a mistake, you would win $1 million.
18. A boy named Lucas laconi Stewart spent 9 years building an incredibly detailed model of a Boeing jet from paper.
19. An ant wouldn't get killed if you microwave it. They don't have a high enough water content and because they are so small they can "dodge" the hot spots in the microwave just by walking around.
20. Around 1 in every 10,000 people have 'Perfect Pitch', an ability to tell notes and chords similar to being able to know every ingredient just by tasting a meal. If you don't develop it before the age of 6, you will never have it, but if you do, you can never lose it.
21Seagulls
Seagulls stamp their feet to imitate rain, causing worms to surface.
22. In 2016, Facebook live-streamed a murder in Chicago but later refused to take the video down "because it doesn't violate the company's community standards."
23. Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath fame once got arrested for punching a Nazi in a bar.
24. The “Metabo law” requires all Japanese citizens over the age 40 to have their waist measurements taken once a year. Anyone deemed to be overweight is given 3 months to shape up, failing which they will be given necessary dieting guidance. If necessary, those people are steered toward further re-education after six more months.
25. Steve Jobs lied to Steve Wozniak. When they made Breakout for Atari, Wozniak and Jobs were going to split the pay 50-50. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to do the job. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350.
