20 Interesting Facts

Hey everyone

I found these 20 random facts that I thought looked very interesting.

• The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”.
• Canadians use the word “sorry” so many times that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.
• When dinosaurs still existed, there used to be volcano eruptions on the moon.
• J is the only letter of the alphabet that doesn’t appear on the periodic table.
• One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.
• If a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear mate, their baby will be known as a “Pizzy Bear”.
• In 2006 an employee of Coca-Cola offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by informing Coca-Cola.
• There were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.
• In 2010, Nintendo trademark the phrase “Its On Like Donkey Kong”.
• Calling “shotgun” when riding in a car comes from the term “shotgun messenger”.
• The famous line in Titanic from Leonardo DiCaprio, “I’m king of the world!” was improvised.
• A strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”.
• There is a difference between coffins and caskets. Coffins are tapered and six sided, whereas caskets are rectangular.
• Sunflowers help to clean radioactive soil. Japan uses this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Almost 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
• To leave a party and not tell anyone is called a “French Exit”.
• In Arizona, if you cut down a cactus, you will be penalized up to 25 years in jail. It is similar to cutting down a protected tree species.
• The Buddha depicted in statues and pictures is very different from the actual person. The Buddha was actually skinny because of self-deprivation.
• In Colorado, USA, there is still an active volcano. It last erupted about the same time as the pyramids were being built in Egypt.
• Snow White and The 7 Dwarfs was the first movie to put out a motion-picture soundtrack.
• If you point your car keys to your head, it increases the remote’s signal range.

I hope you enjoyed these facts and the comic strip that I added. I will be sharing some more tomorrow.