30 feet underwater there is no red light, so blood appears green.
In November 2008, Zimbabwean $ 50 million = US $ 1 due to hyperinflation.
RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE has introduced $ 500 million bearer cheques (or currency notes) for the public, and $ 5 billion, $ 25 billion, $ 50 billion agro-cheques for farmers.
A 15-kg bag of potatoes cost Zimbabwean $260 million.
Colombian drug lord Pablo Emilio Escobar made so much money, he spent 1000 $ per week purchasing rubber bands to wrap the stacks of cash storing most of it in his warehouse. 10% had to be written off because of “spoilage” by rats that crept in at night and nibbled on the 100 dollar bills.
Frane Selak is called the world’s luckiest man. This man cheated death seven times. He’s been in a train wreck, an airplane crash, a bus crash, his car blew up a few times, he was hit by a city bus, and his car was forced off a cliff by a truck.
In 2003, he won $ 1,000,000 dollars in the Croatian lottery.
If you put a piece of pineapple somewhere in your mouth for some time, it will start eating you. It has proteins that degrade meat.
Bananas are slightly radioactive because they contain potassium and potassium decays.
8 Sieverts will result in death.
On 21/07/2013, burglars stole computers from an office building. When they realized the computers they’d stolen were from a non-profit group that helps victims of sexual violence, they returned them – along with an apology note.
A Civil Engineering fact to satisfy my soul :
Concrete is the most used man made material in the world. Also, it's the second most used material in the world after water.
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