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During the Middle Ages people preferred beer over water due to the scarcity of clean drinking water. Brewing process makes beer cleaner than its original … Read more

Most Indians don’t use toilet paper and consider it cleaner to splash water with their left hand in the right location. In some parts of … Read more

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is the world’s fastest production car with a top speed of 431 km/h. Bugatti Veryon SS, the 1200 hp monster, … Read more

A whipcrack is produced when a section of the whip moves faster than the speed of sound, thus creating a sonic boom. As early as … Read more

Titanic required only 3 functional funnels, fourth was added to make the ship look more impressive. The Olympic-class liners Olympic, Titanic and Britannic were all … Read more

Starbucks, the multi-national coffeehouse chain, was named after Moby Dick character Starbuck. Originally Starbucks was intended to be named as Pequod, a whaleship that appears … Read more

The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes The Anglo-Zanzibar War was fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. The … Read more

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and the Alphabet song have the same melody Although this fact is quiet obvious, it is rarely noticed. The melody for … Read more

In June 24, 2008 Wazir Muhammand, a Pakistani man, received surgery that made him a little bit lighter. 620g (1.36lb) kidney stone was removed from … Read more

Alan Shepard is the only person to hit a golf ball on the Moon. During the Apollo 14 mission he fitted an 8 iron head … Read more

Wayne McLaren, David McLean and Dick Hammer all died from lung cancer and ironically these men also appeared in Marlboro Man advertisements, thus earning Marlboro … Read more

The risk of radiation poisoning can be mitigated by taking Potassium iodide (KI), raising the total amount of iodine in the body and therefore reducing … Read more

During the Norman conquest of England and subsequent occupation of England by an army of Normans and French led by Duke William II of Normandy, … Read more

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) born in Italy was known as the universal man because of his many and varied talents. Many seem to remember him more for his … Read more

During the Apollo missions astronauts left various items on the moon to reduce the weight of the Lunar Module Ascent stage. Among those items was … Read more

This is a question we get asked a lot so we thought we’d put people out of their misery. Firstly the word robot comes from … Read more

Most historians document the first vaccination to be around 1796 when English doctor Edward Jenner observed that people working in close proximity to cows were … Read more

Footprints planted on Moon’s surface in 1969 by the Apollo astronauts are still there intact. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong put his left foot … Read more

Chareles Osborne’s hiccups first started in 1922, at age of 28, while weighing a hog for slaughter. As he says, “I was hanging a 350 … Read more

No country in the southern hemisphere has ever hosted Winter Olympic Games Because Winter Olympic Games are usually held in February, a time, when it’s … Read more

Who designed nazi uniforms? In 1997 Hugo Boss AG confirmed that they, the German clothing factory that eventually became the international menswear powerhouse, manufactured Nazi … Read more

Genghis Khan came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire, he started the Mongol invasions … Read more

Vesna Vulović, a former flight attendant from Serbia, survived a 10,160 metre (33,330 ft) fall without a parachute. On 26 January 1972, a bomb explosion … Read more

Nike purchased its famous “swoosh” logo for only $35 back in 1971. The “swoosh” was made by Carolyn Davidson, a graphic design student back in … Read more

The earliest accounts of decorating an evergreen tree at Christmas were recorded in Tallin, Estonia in the 15th century The custom of decorating an evergreen … Read more

The world’s largest family consists of a man with 39 wives, 94 children, and 33 grandchildren. They all live in a 100-room, four story house … Read more

Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. Adam Rainer was born in 1899 and … Read more

Stephen King wrote “Cujo” being so intoxicated from alcohol, that he barely remembers writing it at all. “I spent the first twelve years or so … Read more

From 1905, Hitler lived a bohemian life in Vienna, financed by orphan’s benefits and support from his mother. He worked as a casual labourer and … Read more

First All-Touch phone was invented by IBM in 1992, that’s 15 years before iPhone was unveiled. In 2007, Steve Jobs stood on a stage and … Read more

The flag of Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011) is the only national flag in the world with just one color and no design, … Read more

Park Jae-sang, better known by his stage name, Psy, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and record producer. He is popular for his humorous … Read more