There is an airtight room in a University in Georgia (US), sealed in 1940, to be opened in the year 8113. The “Crypt of Civilization” contains a wealth of artifacts from literary works to everyday items.
Ross Rebagliati, the first man to win Gold in Snowboarding in the Olympics only to be disqualified for marijuana, now owns a medical marijuana business called Ross’ Gold.
In 2012, Choi Gap-bok escaped from prison by squeezing his body through the food slot at the bottom of his cell door. The slot measured 5.9 inches tall and 17.7 inches wide. Choi, a yoga practitioner, applied skin ointment to his body and slipped out while 3 prison guards were sleeping.
In 1962, French explorer Michael Siffre spent two months in complete isolation buried in a cave below a glacier. His sense of time collapsed but his body continued to maintain a daily rhythm.
Scientists in Mexico turned tequila into diamonds by heating a cheap shot to 800 degrees Celsius. At that temp, it vaporized and broke down into its atomic constituents, producing a fine layer of carbon crystal structures identical to diamonds on nearby metal trays.
Touching stainless steel will remove the odor of garlic and onion from your hands. They even sell bars of stainless steel “soap”, which is just a bar of stainless steel to rub on your hands.
432 people own half the land in Scotland. However, Scotland has some of the best outdoor access laws in the world and pretty much all of the privately owned land is free to walk, cycle or camp on as long as the outdoor access code is followed (namely leaving no trace).
The word ‘gymnasium’ comes from the Greek word “gymnós”, which literally means “naked.” Athletes competed nude, a practice said to encourage aesthetic appreciation of the male body and a tribute to the gods.
There is an “Inception” phenomenon where the individual believes they have awakened and are going about their day as usual (i.e. got dressed, ate breakfast) only to wake up and realize none of it happened in reality. There can be multiple false awakenings in a dream session.
There is a medical condition named akinetopsia where you cannot perceive the motion of objects but can still see acutely and recognize objects normally. Everything seems to be frozen in time only to “jump ahead” in time and freeze again.
There is a biker gang from Arizona, USA who help keep child abuse victims safe while the child’s abuser is prosecuted, including guarding their houses at night if person is not yet in jail and attending court with the child, shielding them so they don’t have to look at their abuser.
Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world’s smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant.
The reason that NORAD annually tracks Santa Claus’ journey from the North Pole is because Sears printed an ad to talk to Santa on his private line, with a wrong phone number that was actually CONAD’s top secret hotline that would only ring if there was a national crisis.