Abraham Lincoln suffered from
depression. He was scared to carry
knives because he was afraid he’d kill
himself.
Bees don’t always die when they sting.
Amazingly they die when they sting a
human or other animal with similarly
thick skin, but can sting other insects
just fine.
In 1971, Saddam Hussein imported
100,000 tons of grain treated with
fungicidal mercury. The grains were
intended for planting, but the Iraqis,
unable to understand the English and
Spanish warnings or the “skull and
crossbones” image, baked it into bread.
Hundreds of Iraqis died as a result.
In the film ‘Thank You for Smoking’,
amazingly none of the characters are
ever seen smoking.
While millions of North Koreans starve,
the nation’s rulers have taken up the
habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers
flown daily from China to Pyongyang on
North Korea’s national airline.
Glucose (sugar) has an opposite
“handed” isomer L-glucose, that tastes
identical and isn’t metabolized as sugar,
also safe for diabetics. Amazingly L-
glucose costs 50% more than gold.
Most trees planted in 24 hours is
611,137, a record currently held by the
District Administration of Dungarpur
(India) at village Khemaru, in state of
Rajasthan , India from 11 to 12 August
2009.
During the Spanish-American war (1898),
a warship was sent by USA to capture
Guam. It fired 13 shots at the harbor fort
without receiving return fire. Amazingly
the Spanish sent an officer out to
apologize for not returning the ‘Salute’
as they were out of gunpowder. They
hadn’t been informed that they were at
war.
There is an atomic bomb museum in New
Mexico, where the first a-bomb was
detonated. Amazingly the museum is
only open 12 hours each year.
Downing Street, the residence of the
Prime minister of the UK, amazingly has
a cat with a government title of Chief
Mouser to the Cabinet Office. His day-
to-day responsibilities include
contemplating a solution to the mouse
occupancy of the house.
When Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of
Patiala was refused of his order of a new
Rolls Royce, he took his revenge by
converting his old Rolls Royce cars into
garbage collection vehicles.
Obsidian blades are so sharp (3 nm
thickness) that, on a cellular level,
obsidian knives will cut between cells
rather than tear the cells as steel knives
would do.
There is a clock being built inside a
mountain in western Texas that is
designed to tick for 10,000 years, and
play a unique melody that never repeats
itself. It has been designed by the
inventor and designer Danny Hillis. This
Clock in the Mountain is being funded
and built on property owned by Jeff
Bezos, the founder and CEO of
Amazon.com.
When the leading emergency asthma
medication Albuterol’s patent expired,
the patent holding pharmaceutical
companies lobbied to amazingly have
their own inhalers banned based on
environmental issues, allowing them to
file a new patent, and continue to
monopolize the market.
In 1954, archaeologists excavating an
8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden
found a Buddha statue from India.
depression. He was scared to carry
knives because he was afraid he’d kill
himself.
Bees don’t always die when they sting.
Amazingly they die when they sting a
human or other animal with similarly
thick skin, but can sting other insects
just fine.
In 1971, Saddam Hussein imported
100,000 tons of grain treated with
fungicidal mercury. The grains were
intended for planting, but the Iraqis,
unable to understand the English and
Spanish warnings or the “skull and
crossbones” image, baked it into bread.
Hundreds of Iraqis died as a result.
In the film ‘Thank You for Smoking’,
amazingly none of the characters are
ever seen smoking.
While millions of North Koreans starve,
the nation’s rulers have taken up the
habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers
flown daily from China to Pyongyang on
North Korea’s national airline.
Glucose (sugar) has an opposite
“handed” isomer L-glucose, that tastes
identical and isn’t metabolized as sugar,
also safe for diabetics. Amazingly L-
glucose costs 50% more than gold.
Most trees planted in 24 hours is
611,137, a record currently held by the
District Administration of Dungarpur
(India) at village Khemaru, in state of
Rajasthan , India from 11 to 12 August
2009.
During the Spanish-American war (1898),
a warship was sent by USA to capture
Guam. It fired 13 shots at the harbor fort
without receiving return fire. Amazingly
the Spanish sent an officer out to
apologize for not returning the ‘Salute’
as they were out of gunpowder. They
hadn’t been informed that they were at
war.
There is an atomic bomb museum in New
Mexico, where the first a-bomb was
detonated. Amazingly the museum is
only open 12 hours each year.
Downing Street, the residence of the
Prime minister of the UK, amazingly has
a cat with a government title of Chief
Mouser to the Cabinet Office. His day-
to-day responsibilities include
contemplating a solution to the mouse
occupancy of the house.
When Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of
Patiala was refused of his order of a new
Rolls Royce, he took his revenge by
converting his old Rolls Royce cars into
garbage collection vehicles.
Obsidian blades are so sharp (3 nm
thickness) that, on a cellular level,
obsidian knives will cut between cells
rather than tear the cells as steel knives
would do.
There is a clock being built inside a
mountain in western Texas that is
designed to tick for 10,000 years, and
play a unique melody that never repeats
itself. It has been designed by the
inventor and designer Danny Hillis. This
Clock in the Mountain is being funded
and built on property owned by Jeff
Bezos, the founder and CEO of
Amazon.com.
When the leading emergency asthma
medication Albuterol’s patent expired,
the patent holding pharmaceutical
companies lobbied to amazingly have
their own inhalers banned based on
environmental issues, allowing them to
file a new patent, and continue to
monopolize the market.
In 1954, archaeologists excavating an
8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden
found a Buddha statue from India.
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