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The term “weapons of mass destruction” was first used in 1937 to describe German bombers used in the Spanish Civil War.
Wearing a blindfold for at least 12 hours can induce visual hallucinations, including elaborate scenery and frightening entities.
Bill Murray uses a secret 1-800 number as his primary contact for casting opportunities since he doesn’t have an agent.
The first recorded use of the term “chips” to describe fried potatoes was in Charles Dickens’ classic novel “A Tale of Two Cities.”
Sea cucumbers eject their organs to fend off predators during fights, and then grow them back within a few days.
The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut who orbited Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961.
There are no showers on the International Space Station. Instead, astronauts must wipe themselves down with wet sponges and use dry shampoo.
Hanna-Barbera pitched “The Flintstones” to networks for eight weeks before it was finally picked up. It became the first-ever animated show to air during primetime.
Judy Feld Carr, a Canadian music teacher, secretly led a smuggling operation that rescued 3,228 Jews from Syria between the early 1970s and 2001.
NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency worked with 14 countries and 300 universities to develop the James Webb Space Telescope.
The Scoville Scale was developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, using diluted pepper extracts and human tasters to measure the heat level.
Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor often made lightsaber sound effects during fight scenes in the Star Wars prequels, which had to be edited out in post-production.
There are over 400,000 pounds (181,437 kg) of trash on the Moon. While most of it is from crashed spacecraft and lunar landers, some is real trash, like human waste.
Samsung means “three stars” in Korean. The founder chose this name because he wanted the company to be powerful and everlasting like stars in the sky.
NASA’s New Horizons space probe took almost ten years to travel the three billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers) to Pluto.
The Pernkopf Atlas is a highly detailed anatomy book created by a Nazi doctor. Often considered one of the greatest anatomy books, its unethical origins limit its use.
Earth is unique among the planets in our Solar System as it is the only one not named after a god. “Earth” originates from Old English and Germanic words meaning “ground” or “soil.”
The term “Third World” initially referred to non-aligned countries during the Cold War but is now more often associated with underdeveloped nations, though this usage is outdated.
Vincent Gigante, the boss of the Genovese crime family, used to wander around New York in his bathrobe, pretending to be insane to avoid capture by the police.
Discovered in 1997, Chariklo is an asteroid in the outer Solar System and the first known asteroid found to have its own rings, which were detected in 2013.
Jupiter completes a full rotation on its axis approximately every 9 hours and 55 minutes, making it the fastest-spinning planet in our Solar System.
