1. Before the Washington Monument was completed, the tallest structure in the US was the 234 foot tall Phoenix Shot Tower, where molten lead was dropped from a platform at the top of the tower through a sieve into a vat of cold water at the bottom, forming perfect spheres of shot.

2. The Apollo 11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) didn't have life insurance, so they autographed hundreds of items for their families to sell in the event that they died.

3. In 1936 a rare million-dollar Stradivarius violin got stolen from virtuoso Hall Huberman. The thief, a café musician named Julian Altman, became famous and performed for presidents. 49 years after the theft, he confessed to the theft on his deathbed and his wife received $263k finder’s fee.

4. Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.

5. Sean Connery was filming a love scene when his co-star's gangster boyfriend got jealous and pulled a gun on him. Connery grabbed the gun from his hand and twisted the guy's wrist until he ran off the set.

6. Seinfeld's iconic theme song was not recorded on a slap bass and each episode had a unique intro that synced with with Jerry's stand-up routine .

7. Mr Bean theme song translated is "behold the man who is a bean". Ecce homo qui est faba.

8. Mr Bean real named Rowan Sebastian Atkins has a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the prestigious Queens College Oxford.

9. Over 70 cats live in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, helping to catch mice who might want to chew on the artworks. They even have their own press secretary.

10. It is not coldest just before the dawn - it is coldest about an hour after dawn. The temperature only begins to increase once the incoming solar radiation overcomes the heat radiating away from earth.

11. Staring in the 1988 comedy film Twins, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito both agreed to take 20% of the film's box office take instead of their usual salaries. This resulted in them receiving the biggest paychecks of their movie careers.

12. A homeless woman secretly lived in a Japanese man's closet for a year without his knowledge. He began to suspect someone was eating his food and finally set up security cameras in his house.

13. Mona Lisa is far from unique. There were several contemporary versions made by Da Vinci's presumed male lover Salai, including a Unclad version.


14. Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel - as the challenged, he chose the dueling weapon - A broadsword

15. A German U-boat Captain improperly executed a toilet flush, leading to the sinking of his submarine.


16. In1969 the FBI and Chicago police drugged and assassinated Fred Hampton, a 21 year old Black Panther leader

17. Under Delaware state law a marriage can be annulled if either partner entered into the marriage as a dare.

18. Noah Webster Originally wanted "women" spelled like "wimmen" and "tongue" spelled like "tung".


19. Matthias Sindelar, the "Mozart of football". Widely considered one of the best players of the 1930s, he defiantly scored and celebrated a goal against Nazi Germany in a game meant to celebrate the Anschluss. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1939.

20. Matthias Sindelar, the "Mozart of football". Widely considered one of the best players of the 1930s, he defiantly scored and celebrated a goal against Nazi Germany in a game meant to celebrate the Anschluss. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1939.


21. Johnny Carson of the Tonight show accidentally started the Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973.


22. The latin word "vagina" means "sheath"... i.e. the cover for a sword.


23. Industrially-Grown Tomatoes are grown not for flavor but for their resilience to being hauled across the country. They are picked very unripe and green. Trucks transporting them are pumped full of Ethylene gas to artificially ripen them.


24. Actor Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in at least one film for each of Disney's owned studios. He played Nick Fury in the MCU (Marvel), he was a Jedi in the Star Wars prequels (Lucasfilms), Frozone in The Incredibles (Pixar), as well as the narrator for a Disney Nature Documentary "African Cats"

25. John H. Kellog, the father of Kellogs, devoted his life to preventing masturbation. He used acid to remove the femalecore and hoped that feeding children plain cereal every morning would help to combat the urges of "self-abuse"

26. kissing Oscar Wilde's lipstick covered tomb could result in a $12,000 fine

27. Harvard has a pigment library where the sources of rare colors are stored. These sources include ground shells of now extinct insects, poisonous metals, and wrappings from Egyptian mummies.


28. Patrick Nagel, famous Art Deco Painter was found dead in his car of a heart attack at 38 after participating in an Aerobathon to raise money for the American Heart Association


29.In 1993 hundreds of Barbie & GI Joe toys had their voice boxes switched, resulting in Barbie saying "Dead Men Tell No Tales" in GI Joe's voice.


30. There is an underground coal fire in Australia that has been burning for approximately 6000 years.

31. The Dutch are taller because of natural selection.


32. A car's headrest can break the window if you end up being trapped in your car.

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30,31,32...amazing

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