30 interesting trivia facts that give you a different perspective on the world.
Disney's two lowest-grossing films in history are both set on Mars: the animated film *Mars Saves Mother*, which lost $143 million, and the live-action film *John Carter*, which lost nearly $127 million.
Before the 1970s, there was no widely acclaimed HIGH 5.
In the early 2000s, Serena Williams and Venus Williams' father, Richard, was frequently accused of "match-fixing" when his sisters were competing against each other. In one incident, Venus withdrew entirely from a semi-final match against her sister (tendinitis), and fans demanded refunds.
Vince Gilligan deeply regretted introducing machine guns into Breaking Bad and found it so difficult to write a convincing explanation for them that he almost gave up on the plot altogether out of frustration.
Hiroshima was destroyed because only 0.5 grams of matter were converted into energy.
In 1962, Dr. Edwin Chandroth discovered the chemical reaction in glow sticks, but he didn't know that "chemiluminescent" objects were popular in music programs until he was interviewed by Vice in 2013.
A 2018 study by Yale University psychologists found that, compared to their more sociable peers, introverted individuals prone to melancholy seemed better at understanding how people behave in groups. Introverts are more likely to assess the true nature of human "sociality" without formal training or tools.
The Tag Brothers are a group of 10 people who have been playing a tag game since 1990. They chase each other across the country, traveling by plane and car. The game is still ongoing.
A director made a ten-hour film that consisted of only ten hours and seven minutes of filming paint drying on a wall. The film, created by Charlie Lyne, was intended to appeal to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), which was forced to sit idly by the whole thing.
The large orange fuel tanks on the space shuttle were originally white, but to save 500 pounds of paint, they stopped painting them.
The first American soldier to land in Normandy was hit twice during the landings, but he not only survived but lived to be 90 years old.
After an earthquake destroyed Egypt's Colossus of Memnon, the damaged statue began to "sing" at sunrise. Modern scientists attribute this to the morning heat causing dew left in the statue's cracks to evaporate, creating vibrations that echoed through the desert air.
Research found that 94% of Britons said they had discussed the weather in the past 6 hours, and 38% said they had discussed it in the past 60 minutes. This means that at any given time in the UK, one-third of the population is either talking about the weather, has already done so, or is about to do so.
Astronauts need to sleep near the ventilation openings; otherwise, due to weightlessness, there is a risk that the carbon dioxide they exhale will form bubbles around their heads.
Lisa Leslie, a high school basketball player, scored 101 points in 16 minutes of play. She made 37 of 56 field goals and 27 of 35 free throws. However, she did not break the high school women's scoring record because the opposing coach refused to play in the second half.
Between 2003 and 2005, a 13-year-old girl wrote 365,000 words of Harry Potter fan fiction while undergoing cancer treatment in a hospital. She died just six days after completing it, and her father used her notes to write the second book in the series.
Every Christmas, Steve Harvey would give a television to the teacher who said he would never be on TV.
Due to the clown scare video craze in 2016, McDonald's quietly phased out its clown mascot, Ronald McDonald.
Modern air conditioning was invented by Willis Carrier, not to cool people down, but to reduce harmful humidity in printing plants.
Centuries after Alexander the Great's death, his tomb became a tourist attraction. Many Roman emperors who visited the tomb left with souvenirs, damaging the monument. According to one account, Augustus Caesar attempted to touch the 300-year-old mummy and accidentally broke its nose.
The park entrance fee in the first Jurassic Park movie was $550.
The sun's sound is very loud, but we can't hear it because sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space.
Male reindeer lose their antlers in winter, while females do not. Therefore, Santa's sleigh is pulled by a group of strong, independent women.
Lemons don't grow naturally; they're produced by cultivating bitter oranges and citrons. So we make lemons, then lemonade, and then mess up your life.
Cats don't use meows to talk to other cats because they use different languages to communicate with us.
Woodpeckers wrap their tongues around their skulls to prevent concussions.
Humans lived closer to Tyrannosaurus Rex than Tyrannosaurus Rex lived to Stegosaurus.
Diamonds are neither valuable nor rare. De Beers (an international company focused on all diamonds) launched an advertising campaign claiming a man should spend two months' salary on a diamond engagement ring. They then raised prices, restricted supply, and created the illusion that this expensive item is still considered an essential part of the marriage process by generations.
The lighter was invented before the match.
