Here are some interesting facts that everyone should know.
- Charlie Chaplin created the original “distracted boyfriend” meme nearly 100 years ago.
- On October 24, 1975, Icelandic women went on strike to demand equal rights. Ninety percent of women walked out of their workplaces and homes, bringing an entire nation to a standstill. Men were at a loss as to how to deal with the situation. The following year, Parliament passed a law guaranteeing equal pay. Five years later, Iceland elected its first female president. Today, it is the country with the highest rate of equal rights in the world.
- If the mother's organs are damaged during pregnancy, the baby sends stem cells from the womb to repair them.
- Paper hurts so much when it cuts us because it's a rough material, and unlike a knife (which cuts cleanly), paper cuts like a saw. It also leaves small
- fibers and chemical residue in the skin, which further irritate the wound.
- Australian prisoner Joseph Johnes escaped so many times that a special cell had to be built to keep him in. The governor was so confident in his new cell that he told him, "If you escape again, I'll acquit you." Johns escaped again.
- The line that separates day from night is called The Terminator.
- When a blackout hit Southern California in the 1990s, many Los Angeles residents called 911, saying there were strange clouds in the sky. It was the first time they'd seen the Milky Way.