Random Revelations: Article #260- 43 Mind-Blowing Random Facts You’ve Never Heard

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1Constantine Fahlberg

Constantine Fahlberg

The first artificial sweetener Saccharin was discovered on accident when a chemist named Constantine Fahlberg forgot to wash his hands after work and tasted something "unspeakably sweet" during supper. He dropped his dinner and went on to taste every beaker in his lab, which luckily for him contained nothing poisonous.


2. In her nearly 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II has visited 116 countries in the world, but Greece is not one of them, despite her husband being born there. It is believed that Philip hates his birth country, because of how they treated his family over the years.


3. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's father (Rocky Johnson) descended from Black Loyalists, who escaped to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War on the promise of British emancipation.


4. The CIA found games such as Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, and even Animal Crossing on Osama Bin Laden's hard drive. They also found anime like Naruto, Bleach, and Dragon Ball.


5. Researchers deduce that the appendix is designed to protect good bacteria in the gut. That way, when the gut is affected by a bout of diarrhea or other illness that cleans out the intestines, the good bacteria in the appendix can repopulate the digestive system and keep you healthy.


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6Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando

Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando

A Florida animal shelter named Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando removed breed cards and instead sorted dogs into a "Pawgwarts House" by watching each dog play with a "sorting toy": brave Gryffindor pups are athletic, Slytherins are cunning pack leaders, Ravenclaws are problem-solvers, and Hufflepuffs are loyal and friendly.


7. The cost of acquiring the rights to use The Beatles' music in "Yesterday" was around $10 million, nearly 40% of the movie's total cost. 


8. A Latvian man named Jānis Pīnups evaded the Soviets in bunkers in the woods for the entirety of the 50-year Soviet occupation. He came out at the age of 70 when the last Soviet troops left.


9. A producer on Family Ties felt Michael J. Fox was too short for the role and tried to have him replaced saying “this isn’t the face you'll see on a lunch-box." Fox later gave him a custom-made lunch-box with the inscription "this is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J. Fox.”


10. Jamie Siminoff, the inventor of the Ring Doorbell failed to secure a deal on ABC’s Shark Tank but later went on to sell his company to Amazon for $1 billion. He then later got the opportunity to guest star on the show alongside the same investors who once turned him down.


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11Cars

Cars

96% of Americans use automatic cars while 80% of Europeans use manual.


12. In terms of long-distance running, there is no animal that can outrun a human.


13. Michel and Edmond Navratil were two brothers whose father kidnapped them after separating them from his wife. He tried to move them to America on the Titanic but died when the ship sank. The brothers were rescued and reunited with their mother after she saw a newspaper picture of them.


14. In 2008, Henri, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, refused to give his assent to a euthanasia bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies. In response, the Chamber amended the constitution so that bills no longer require the Duke's assent, rendering the Duke symbolic. 


15. Beluga whales can mimic human speech and have caused divers to inadvertently surface due to them mimicking commands to surface.


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16New Mexico license plates

New Mexico license plates

In the United States of America, only the license plates in New Mexico have the letters ‘USA’ written on them because many Americans don’t know New Mexico is part of USA.


17. The funk band Vulfpeck released a completely silent album on Spotify and asked their fans to play it on repeat while they slept. The album, called Sleepify, earned $20,000 in royalties before Spotify caught on, allowing Vulfpeck to give their fans a free tour.


18. Christian Bale didn't socialize with any of his American Psycho castmates, explaining: "I start laughing if I know people too well. I start laughing in the middle of scenes."


19. The neck rings worn by the women from the Kayan tribe in Myanmar don’t actually tend to stretch their neck. They just push the shoulders and the clavicles down to create the illusion of a longer neck. Removing these rings incorrectly is dangerous as it may cause death because the neck muscles of these women weaken so much that they can’t even support their own head.


20. Oil magnate J. Paul Getty, who is one of the richest men in history, was so miserly that he laundered his own shirts by hand, reused envelopes and paper, made all the calls in his home on a coin-operated telephone, and stood in line for hours for show tickets to save 50 cents.


21Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman's signature sound was the result of a speech impediment when he could not move his lower jaw properly as a child.


22. Nike fabricated a story about the Air Jordan 1 shoes being banned by the NBA and Jordan being fined every time he wore the shoes on the court which created a tale of defiance and "brazen charisma" that came to define the Air Jordan brand.


23. A Peregrine falcon was once clocked at 242 mph in a dive. A trained falcon kept pace with a skydiver, and that was as fast as the skydiver could go.


24. During the Lewis & Clark expedition, Sacagawea was reunited with her brother Cameahwait, the "Great Chief" of the Lemhi Shoshones. This led to generous aid including selling horses, carrying cargo, sharing knowledge of the Bitterroot Mountains and the Columbia River, and supplying a guide.


25. Thomas Edison used to hire thugs to destroy movie sets because he felt that he owned the rights to any and all film made since he filed the first patent for the motion picture camera.

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