Random Facts (15 gifs)

1

"If viewed from space or a high altitude, the sun appears to be white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear to be what we believe as yellow. "

2

"Men in Switzerland are required to keep the firearms they are issued during their military service at home even after they leave the military to prevent any home break ins and to have the countries men ready to mobilize in the event of a threat. "

3

"Luxembourg’s gold medal at the 1952 Olympics was so unexpected that the organizers had neglected to give the band a score for their national anthem. The musicians “hurriedly improvised a tune which bore little resemblance to the Luxembourg anthem”. "

4

"Vultures have stomach acid so corrosive that they can even digest anthrax."

5

"In 1975, a physicist made his cat the co-author of a physics paper because he’d accidentally written “We” instead of “I” throughout the paper and couldn’t be bothered changing it. "

6

"All board members of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency are required to ride transit at least once a week."

7

"There are depictions of Medieval Knights fighting snails in ancient manuscripts and nobody knows why."

8

"An extreme temperature of 87 °C (189 °F) was recorded during a heat burst in Abadan, Iran. A rare atmospheric phenomenon that occurs near the end of a weakening thunderstorm cluster, characterized by a rapid increase in temperature."

9

"In 1945, the US government tried to ‘cover up’ a superman comic that was about scientists splitting the atom to create an atomic bomb, while the top secret Manhattan project was working on the real thing."

10

Nearly all the bread clips, those flat, U-shaped pieces of plastic are produced by one family-owned company in "Yakima, Washington. The first one was carved from a credit card, the company exports billions a year, and the Kwik Lok Corporation has an almost complete monopoly. "

11

"The first pizzeria in the US Opened in 1905 and still runs till this day, it even offered Pizza’s for 5 cents for its 100th Birthday."

12

"Bad acoustics in school classrooms may cause learning problems for students, as well as higher rates of sore throats and stress for teachers."

13

"Not only do we see distant stars as they were thousands of years ago, but we also still experience their gravity from thousands of years ago, and not from where they are now. We even experience the pull of gravity from stars that have burned out."

14

"Zheng He (born 1371) was a Chinese explorer, mariner, diplomat and fleet admiral who travelled as far as Arabia. He was a eunuch who had been castrated by the Empire and enslaved as punishment, but rose to immense power. "