(Part 1 of 2)
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Betty White is older
than sliced bread.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented sliced bread in 1928, while Betty
White was born in 1922. Bread had existed prior to that, just not in the
pre-sliced form.
The boomslang snake’s
venom causes you to bleed from all holes of your body.
Women have
twice as many pain receptors on their body than men, but a much higher pain
tolerance.
When getting
a new car, choose one that is silver. The color is most visible on the road and
is least likely to get into an accident.
The first pyramids were
built while the woolly mammoth was still alive.
While most mammoths
died out 10,000 years ago, a small population still survived until 1650 BC. By
that point, Egypt was halfway through its empire, and the Giza Pyramids were
already 1000 years old.
Farting helps reduce
high blood pressure and is good for your health.
By law, a
pregnant woman can pee anywhere she wants to in Britain, even if she chooses,
in a police officer’s helmets.
You don’t
sneeze when you are asleep because the nerves involved in the sneeze reflex are
also resting.
Everything in this 1991 Radio Shack ad exists in a single
smartphone.
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, stated that over the history
of computing, the number of transistors on circuits doubles approximately every
two years. Moore’s Law has held true for over 40 years and successfully
predicted our incredible advancement in mobile technology.
The colder
the room you sleep in, the odds are higher that you’ll have a bad dream.
If you keep
a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn pale.
Russia
didn’t consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was previously classified as
a soft drink.
Turn your TV to a dead station, and 1% of the static is left over
radiation from the Big Bang.
You are literally witnessing the aftermath of the creation of
the universe.
Anything a
duckling meets 10 minutes after its born becomes its parent.
Pineapples
are not a single fruit, but a group of berries that have fused together.
You can’t
hum while holding your nose closed.
Tulips & butter were once used as currency.
During the 1620’s, tulips reached such a state of popularity in
Holland that they actually created one of the world’s first economic bubbles.
During what is known as the Dutch Golden Age, a single Viceroy tulip bulb had a
value equivalent to $1,250 in current American dollars. According to the 1841
book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by British
journalist Charles Mackay, a single tulip bulb was once given in exchange for 12
acres of land. “Tulip mania”, as it became known, didn’t last and at some point
in the mid 1630’s, people questioned the value in paying a fortune for a flower
that would inevitably die and subsequently, the market crashed.
Butter
was considered a luxury food in early medieval Ireland. It was
so valuable that it was used to pay taxes and rents.
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