Here are 20 Interesting Facts About Television. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Television 1. One of the first original television programs in America was “The Television Ghost,” (1931) which featured an actor dressed as dead people telling the stories of their murders. – Source 2. Stephen Fry claims the UK record for saying ‘f**k’ on television…… Read More »
Here are 20 Interesting Facts on Radiation. 1-5 Interesting Facts on Radiation 1. All the American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun. – Source 2. After Radium was discovered by Marie Curie (who died from radiation), people used it in things like condoms, candy, toothpaste, and health…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 307, click here. 1. President Lyndon B. Johnson drives his Amphicar on the lake of his Texas ranch in 1965. 2. Barbara Walters during her freshman year at Sarah Lawrence College in 1949. 3. Helen Keller visits wounded soldiers at a military hospital in Texas, 1944.…… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Human Blood. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Human Blood 1. After needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen, which cured Rhesus…… Read More »
Here are 25 Kickass and Interesting Facts About Norway. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Norway 1. King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, who was the daughter of a cloth merchant. They both later married with help from the Government of Norway and she became the…… Read More »
In Ancient Greece, a poet/playwright named Phrynichus wrote a play that so moved the audience to tears that it led to him being fined, and his play being banned from ever being performed there again. Only one line of his play The Sack of Miletus survives today. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #679… Read More »
Here are 30 Interesting Facts About Water. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Water 1. After FIJI Water ran an ad joking that it “wasn’t bottled in Cleveland,” the Cleveland Water Department proved that Fiji Water contained the highest levels of arsenic and other contaminants when compared to Cleveland tap water and other bottled brands – Source…… Read More »
Here are 12 Unique Creatures From Around the World. 1. Angora Rabbit The Angora rabbit is a variety of domestic rabbit bred for its long, soft wool. The Angora is one of the oldest types of domestic rabbit. 2. Dugong This strange creature, along with it’s relative the Manatee, are believed to be what Sailors…… Read More »
Here are 30 Interesting Facts About Moon. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Moon 1. The Blood Moon, or Hunter’s Moon, was given its name because it would illuminate the prey of the hunter, much like the harvest moon allowed the farmers to harvest through the night. – Source 2. Candles were put on cakes originally by…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 306, click here. 1. Woman cutting her birthday cake in Iran 1973, 5 years before the Islamic Revolution. 2. Reporters who exposed the Watergate Scandal watch President Nixon resign, 1974. 3. Russian Orthodox priest wearing deerskin, taken in 1901. 4. A Kurdish mother and her three…… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Presidents of the United States. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Presidents of the United States 1. Andrew Jackson served as the President of the United States with a bullet near his heart, a musket ball in his lung, and chased down a guy who tried to assassinate him (with two…… Read More »