in 1909 the presidential salary was $75,000. Adjusting for inflation, that’s about $1.7 million, or more than four times the current presidential...
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Earthquake in Alaska.
the 1964 earthquake in Alaska was so big that water sloshed in wells in Africa....
Wanna join in???
there is a company that provides private flights for individuals who want to join the “mile high club". For $425.00 you get a 1 hour flight,...
Mystery yacht.
In 2007, an unmanned yacht was discovered drifting off the coast of Australia. The engine was running, a laptop was running, the radio and...
Sentinelese
there is a tribe called the Sentinelese who live on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. For thousands of years they have refused all contact...
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Armageddon suffers scientific inaccuracies.
NASA often shows the movie “Armageddon" as part of its management training program and asks its new staff to find as many scientific-inaccuracies...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Time stretches Backwards.
Whenever you move your eyes quickly from one point to another, your perception of time stretches slightly backwards. The brain attempts...
Insomnia can be fatal.
Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a very rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. It is almost always caused by a mutation...
Poon lim vs wild
A man survived 133 days alone on raft at sea by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water....
Your argument is invalid
Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper company for lacking creativity....
The mirror and the duckling
d A lonely duckling separated from its family at birth has been saved thanks to a mirror which has become its only friend....
Lunatics do it that way
an Intern at NASA once stole a safe full of moon rocks, sprinkled them on a hotel bed, and had sx with his girlfriend on top of them....
Dust Cloud
In 526 AD there was a world-wide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a FULL YEAR, resulting in widespread famine and disease. >80%...
Catwoman in a bad mood
Hallie Berry personally accepted her award for Worst Actress for her role in Catwoman. Her accepted speech included the line “First of all,...
skittles???
Skittles and Jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine....
Water, Water everywhere
There is a body of water in space that is large enough to give every person on earth enough water to fill the planets oceans....
Women and secrets.
the average amount of time a woman can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes...
Pretty boy
A bank robber named “Pretty Boy” Floyd was known for destroying mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property...
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