Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Cruise Ships. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Cruise Ships 1. In 1991, the cruise ship Oceanos sank off South Africa’s eastern coast. The crew abandoned ship, leaving the passengers behind. They were all saved by guitarist Moss Hills, who radioed for help and directed the rescue operation. – Source 2.…… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Explorers. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Explorers 1. There is a Lake Disappointment in Australia. It was named by an explorer who followed creeks to it hoping for a freshwater source, but found a saltwater lake instead. – Source 2. There is also a mountain in Australia named Mt. Disappointment,…… Read More »
Here are 20 Secrets About Widely Used Products. 1. Palm Oil is in Everything Palm oil is in nearly every grocery store item. Look on the ingredient list of anything in your home (like food, cleaning supplies, etc.) and you probably see a form of palm oil (look for anything with the word palm, such…… Read More »
Here are 30 Interesting Facts About Alcohol. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Alcohol 1. The full size pears inside some bottles of liquor are actually grown in there by hanging the bottles from the tree. – Source 2. In professional shooting, alcohol is actually considered to be a performance enhancing drug because shooters can drink it…… Read More »
Here are 10 Vegetables and Herbs you can buy once and regrow forever. 1. Garlic When garlic starts to sprout, the little green shoots are too bitter to cook with. Rather than throwing away sprouted cloves, you can put them in a glass with a little water and grow garlic sprouts. The sprouts have a…… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Cookies. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Cookies 1. In 2013, unknown perpetrators stole the gilded cookie hanging in front of the Bahlsen Company in Hannover, Germany. The thieves demanded that the company to send 52,000 cookies to 52 charities, but only “the ones with milk chocolate”. Bahlsen agreed to the…… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Boxing. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Boxing 1. John L. Sullivan, the fighter from the overly manly man meme, fought in a bare-knuckle boxing match that lasted 75 rounds before he won. Sullivan died from a heart attack on February 2, 1918. When Sullivan was buried, the ground was frozen…… Read More »
Here are 20 Kickass and Interesting Facts About Vegas. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Vegas 1. FedEx CEO Fred Smith saved his company in the 1970s by gambling their last $5000 in Vegas. He turned 5K into $32K by playing Blackjack. This allowed FedEx to stay in business a few days longer, at which point he…… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Abandoned Places. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Abandoned Places 1. There exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas. Its construction was approved in 1987 and it was supposed to be the largest particle collider in the world when completed (3x the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland). It was…… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Sugar and Sweeteners. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Sugar 1. Tic Tacs are labelled as zero sugar despite sugar being its primary ingredient because if a single serving contains less than 0.5 g of sugars, the company is allowed to express the amount of sugar in a serving as zero.…… Read More »
Here is a list of 10 Interesting Mythical Places. 10 Hyperborea Land to a mythical group of beings, said to be spirits come to Earth from the Pleiades, Hyperborea described as a paradise, a perfect Eden. Its inhabitants, known as Hyperboreans, were said to be extremely happy all the time, partly owing to the fact…… Read More »