Alexander Graham Bell believed people should say “Ahoy” when they pick up the phone. Edison proposed “hello,” putting that word into common usage.

During the Apache Wars in the American Southwest, the Apache would cut the Army's telegraph lines but reconnect the ends together with a strip of leather to make the break in the circuit nearly impossible to find.

Children in ancient China learned to write from "Thousand Character Text", a 1000-word poem where the characters do not repeat and cover everything from philosophy to astrology.

After Salvador Dali expressed support for Spanish dictator Franco's regime, Pablo Picasso refused to mention Dali's name or acknowledge his existence for the rest of his life.

Ice-T made up a gang to keep real gang members off his back in high school. “We actually created a fake gang. We told people we were part of the Hillside Crips. We had them thinking there was hundreds of us. I never had any trouble.”

"Dune" was rejected by at least 20 publishers before being published by Chilton, the auto-manual company.

Laurence Fishburne was only 14 when filming Apocalypse Now, as he had lied about his age to get the role. Production took so long, he was 18 by the time of its release.

Research suggests that working irregular shifts for a decade ages the brain an extra six and a half years.

Shakers, a christian sect that believed sexuality to be the root of all evil and original sin. All members went far enough in chastity to avoid shaking the opposite sex's hands. Their membership declined from a peak of 5000 in 1840 to 3 members in 2019 due to lack of births.

A young man pinched his nose and clamped his mouth shut to hold in a forceful sneeze and ended up barely able to speak or swallow, with considerable pain. Air bubbles reached into the deep tissue and muscles of his chest and it took seven days for him to recover in hospital.

Garden path sentences which is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect. A few examples include “The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families” “The prime number few.” “The man who hunts ducks out on weekends” “Fat people eat accumulates” “The old man the boat.”

There are 17.3 million American digital nomads or people that travel freely while working remotely using technology and the internet.

Bruce Springsteen did not pay his taxes until he was put on the cover of Time Magazine in 1975. He then spent the next few years paying off his taxes, leaving him with only $20,000 on his 30th birthday despite multiple best-selling records and tours.

In 1909 the entire town of Ulysses, Kansas was relocated 3 miles west to escape their debts.

Last train robbery in the US was in 1970, at the San Antonio Zoo.

US has not elected a below average height president for 120 years. Only 3 presidents since 1776 were not above average height.

The most expensive medication in the world is Hemgenix. Cost is $3,500,000 for one treatment. It is used to treat hemophilia B, a genetic bleeding disorder.

A man under the pseudonym "Kirk Allen" who became deluded that a sci-fi book series was actually the story of his life. He filled in the blanks with elaborate details and hallucinated himself in those settings. He was treated by Robert Lindner, who himself became obsessed with the books.

Sleeping on your side increases facial wrinkles that are perpendicular to expression based wrinkles.

The (in)famous problem of most scientific studies being irreproducible has its own research field since around the 2010s when the Replication Crisis became more and more noticed.