- The US Navy substituted Xbox 360 controls for the old submarine control system. New soldiers have learned much easier to command submarines.
- That’s how the shape of Coca-Cola bottles over the years has changed. The first bottle was issued in 1899, the second in 1900, the third in 1915, the fourth in 1916, the fifth in 1957, and the sixth in 1986, when you look at them from left to right.
- Half of the sixty-five men are still alive. This is explained by the fact that the world’s average life expectancy was 33-39 years before the 20th century. Now, thanks to the medication growth, people are living much longer.
- It’s crazy, but in a human belly button, there are much more bacteria than in the toilet. Scientists compared 10 volunteers ‘ belly buttons and associated them with bathroom germs. More than that, research has not identified nearly 1,500 types of bacteria that have been discovered.
- An American boat had to throw away $10 million worth of helicopters at the start of the Vietnam War in order to recover a pilot with his parents.
- Very few people know that the natural hair colour of Elvis Presley has been red. He dyed his hair when he was young and people recall him as a dark-haired macho.
- A Canadian truck driver had a heart attack and had a clinical death. He was in a coma for 12 days, so he woke up when doctors wanted to turn off his life support. He won a lottery car after that. The cost of the car is $17,000. So pleased by his success was a local television agency that they decided to make a report about him. The idea of the director was to remove the guy from the camera the protective layer of a lottery ticket. This ticket was worth $170,000 for the man.
- Ketchup was sold as a treatment for diarrhoea and jaundice at the start of the 19th century. It has even been turned into drugs. Yet later this knowledge proved to be wrong and since then, ketchup has only been marketed as a sauce.
- Many people believe that the shape of the hump of the pregnant woman can decide the gender of a future baby. The idea goes like this: if the bump just grows upward, it’s a guy, and it’s a girl if it gets bigger on the sides. Although this is a popular idea, it is a fallacy or at least no scientific research has proved it. The bump’s shape and size depending on how tall or short the person is, as well as some other factors.
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