TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

[Abu Juwairiya]

People in Seattle are considered cold and stand-offish, making it extremely hard to make new friends in the city. This phenomena is referred to as the “Seattle Freeze”.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Until 1953, NYC had a pneumatic tube mail network that spanned 27 miles and connected 23 post offices. At its peak, the system moved 95,000 letters a day.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A 2005 study found that the scores of “wine experts” are essentially meaningless, revealing that a typical judge’s scoring of a wine varied by plus/minus four points over three blind tastings poured from the same bottle.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

For $100,000 you can have your dog cloned by a company called My Friend Again.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In the animated series Futurama, the Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP), created in 2945 after the Second Galactic War, is an allusion to the creation of the United Nations in 1945 after the Second World War. The inhabitants of the planet Omicron Persei VIII are often in conflict with the DOOP. Logo DOOP («doop») is an ambigram. Despite the DOOP’s activity, the interplanetary communications are weak, wars are constant, invasions are usually poorly planned and clashes are happening over silly reasons or for no reason at all.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

There is a vigilante group of women in India whose mission includes beating up abusive husbands.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Isaac Newton stuck a needle in his eye, placing pressure on the eyeball, to study the human eye as a lens and how it perceives colour.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A herd of bison were shipped to an island off California 90 years ago for a movie shoot and left there. The herd is still thriving, so much so they have been put on birth control.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Steve Jobs felt guilty about getting a liver transplant because he was rich so he helped author a law in California requiring the DMV to ask you to be a donor to increase the number of potential organ donors.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In the USA, a man who joined the Marines as a private, got promoted to Sergeant and then became an officer as a Lieutenant, then got discharged, enlisted as a Private again, then became an officer again, and ended up being a Lieutenant General.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The New York City Police Department operates in 11 foreign cities, including London, Lyons, Hamburg, Tel Aviv and Toronto.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In America, fake wrestling is called “pro wrestling” and real wrestling is called “amateur wrestling”.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

France gives medals to citizens who have successfully raised several children with dignity.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Contrary to depictions in science fiction, the human body can briefly survive in outer space unprotected, and that the human skin doubles in size, more resembling a body builder than a balloon.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A man who gave away his fortune to charity also donated a kidney to a stranger, noting that the chances of dying as a result of the procedure were about 1 in 4,000 and “to withhold a kidney from someone who would otherwise die means valuing one’s own life at 4,000 times that of a stranger”.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Doritos was the first company to send an advertisement into space towards potential extraterrestrial life.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

There’s a biodegradable urn that contains a tree seed that gets its nutrients from your ashes – you can become a tree when you die!

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans do – 48 versus 46.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A shrimps heart is in it’s head.