22 Fascinating Facts That People Just Learned.

You can learn something new every day.

Published 1 year ago in Wow

You can learn something new every day.

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Members of Forbes 30 under 30 have been arrested for frauds and scams collectively worth $18.5 billion.

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that the meat of the Greenland shark is very toxic. If eaten without being treated, the effects on the body are very similar to drunkenness.
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that during the Panic of 1907, J.P. Morgan organized a coalition of financiers that saved the American monetary system from collapse.

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in 2013 two Iranian F-4 Phantoms attempted to intercept a drone escorted by two F-22 Raptors. Due to having a bumblebee-sized radar cross-section, an F-22 was able to fly underneath an F-4 to see its weapons without it noticing then flew next to the F-4 and radioed "you really ought to go home."
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Arizona driver licenses don’t need to be renewed until the resident is 65 years old; the same license can be used for 5 decades
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that in full retirement at age 63, Rockefeller earned over $58 million in investments in 1902.

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a candidate running for Governor of Tokyo is required to put up three million yen--around $21,500--to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that will only be returned if they receive at least 10% of the votes.
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Robert Oppenheimer thought highly of physicist Hans Bethe and chose him to head the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos. After the War, Bethe declined to participate in developing thermonuclear weapons as he believed that the world would not be worth preserving after a war with such weapons
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the median age in Japan & Germany is 48 years old, which is 10 years older than in the US

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about disappearance of Alfred Loewenstein. In 1928 world's third richest person disappeared mid flight while travelling on his private plane.
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The "Burly Brawl" scene (Agent Smith vs Neo) in the Matrix Reloaded cost $40 million
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During the 18 months of the Great Plague (1665-1666), Isaac Newton conceived calculus, set foundations for his theory of light and color, theory of gravity, worked on laws of planetary motion and wrote many papers creating the foundations of early calculus.

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that the character Uncle Jesse from “Full House” was originally named “Adam Cochran” during production, but at the request of actor John Stamos, who is Greek-American, the character’s name was changed to Jesse Katsopolis.
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in 1961, a cow in Cuba was killed by a satellite fragment falling out of the sky. This is the only documented satellite-crashing-to-Earth fatality
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Canada developed the Ross Rifle because the British wouldn't give them Lee-Enfields during the 1899–1902 South African War. After the war the British urged Canada to switch to the Lee-Enfield but Canada refused. Ross Rifle proved ineffective in WW1 and Canada switched to the Lee-Enfield in 1916.

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Alcohol withdrawal can cause vivid dreaming. Heavy alcohol use reduces the amount of REM sleep we experience each night, but that when we quit alcohol, REM sleep rebounds
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Unilever became big as a colonial power with an area 2.5 times Belgium and mostly forced labor
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that in the United States, it is illegal to remove or destroy a nest that has eggs in it or young birds still dependent on it for survival. It is also illegal for anyone to keep a nest they take out of a tree or find on the ground unless they have a permit.

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about Ota Benga - a young boy from Congo who was kidnapped at the beginning of the 20th century to be held at a zoo with monkeys.
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Turkmenistan banned non-white cars
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of the Toronto Hospital Baby Deaths. A 625 percent increase in infant morality led to the discovery of digoxin present at levels 13 times higher than normal in the babies. To date, the exact culprit is unknown