Trivia

  • Bob Marley was the father of 3 children born to 3 different women in one month.
  • Niagara Falls completely froze in 1848 and again in 1936.
  • The Romans used urine to whiten their teeth.
  • The White House is not free for the President. He receives a bill for food and expenses every month.
  • In addition to the 6 million Jews, about an equal number of Catholics, Christians and homosexuals were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
  • At any time, about 0.7% of the world is drunk. So roughly 50 million people are drunk right now.
  • Switzerland is planning to launch a 'janitor' satellite to collect 370,000 pieces of space junk.
    Space junk is an ongoing problem for the world's space administrations as decades worth of satellite launches and space missions have filled the Earth's orbit with trash such as fuel tanks, lost tools and parts of derelict satellites.
    In order to combat this growing hazard and to avoid potentially devastating collisions, the Swiss Space Center at EPFL has launched CleanSpace One, a project to develop and build the first installment of satellites designed specifically to clean up space debris.
  • Power naps make people smarter and helps one in remembering all the things one just learned.
  • An Interpol "red notice" is an alert to all 190 members - something Interpol calls a global 'tripwire' to track down fugitives.
  • The English actually invented champagne in the 16th century when they started importing wine from Champagne, France and adding carbonation.
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