Roberto Solis was sentenced to life in prison in 1969 for murdering an armored truck driver. He became a successful poet in prison which led multiple well known writers to petition for his release. After he was released he robbed an armored truck for $3 million and is still on the run. The post Roberto… Read More »
In 1930, Chandra, an Indian student showed mathematically that massive stars explode into a supernova and then collapse down into neutron stars,or black holes. Before that Scientists assumed that all stars collapsed into white dwarfs when they died. Chandra’s theory was ridiculed as ‘absurd’. The post In 1930, Chandra, an Indian student… appeared first on… Read More »
The way Americans speak pre-dates the way English speak. This is because “rhotic speech” spoken in America originally came from England, later the wealthy in order to be different adopted a soft “r”, “win-tuh” instead of “win-terr”. It was “posh” to sound like that so everyone else copied them. The post The way Americans speak… Read More »
Helen Keller was accepted to Harvard in 1900. Mark Twain introduced her to Standard Oil magnate, Henry Rogers, who paid for her education. And in 1904, she became the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree. The post Helen Keller was accepted to Harvard… appeared first on Crazy Facts. Source
A brain syndrome called mirrored touch synaesthesia causes people to physically feel what other people are feeling just by looking at them. For example, a person can look at a dog and fee fur texture on his palms, this is an involuntary response. Brain automatically fills in what it thinks the dog feels like without… Read More »
Single men 18 to 55 only change their bed sheets an average of four times a year. Further, the average single guy owns just one set of sheets and can sweat up to a liter a night and sheds thousands of dead skin cells. The post Single men 18 to 55 only change… appeared first… Read More »
Kit Kats in Japan are associated with the phrase Kitto Katsu (きっと勝つ), translated as “You will surely win”, and thus a good luck charm for students. Katsudon (pork cutlet rice bowl) is also known as a good luck food, so people would eat it the night before important events like exams, interviews, etc. The post… Read More »
Saccharin was accidentally discovered by a Russian chemist who forgot to wash his hands after working in the lab and noticed his food tasted quite sweet, and after ruling out the possibility of the food being made that way, he concluded that it was due to the chemicals coating his hands. The post Saccharin was… Read More »