What are 15 crazy things that almost no one knows?
- The longest-lived light bulb has been in operation since 1901.
- The tongue, at rest, never rests in your mouth (note this).
- Straight hair has more knots than curly hair.
- Michael Jackson wanted to play Spider-Man so badly that, after being turned down for the role, he tried to buy Marvel.
- The fastest growing plant is a species of bamboo that can grow up to 90 cm per day.
- One in 10 children of this generation was conceived on an Ikea bed.
- Early train travel was forbidden to women. It was believed that at speeds of 80 km/h, the uterus would eject from the body.
- In Alaska, it is illegal to photograph a sleeping bear, but there are no hunting bans.
- In 2015, two scammers sold a fake Goya painting for two million euros. They later discovered they'd been paid in counterfeit banknotes.
- An average cloud weighs about five hundred thousand kilos.
- There is no way to prove that reality exists outside your head.
- A Coca-Cola corporate secretary stole a secret recipe in 2006 to sell it to Pepsi. Instead of buying it, Pepsi reported her to the FBI.
- If we had the eyesight of an eagle, we would see many more colors and would be able to observe an ant from the tenth floor of a building.
- The Vatican is the country where the most wine is consumed in the world.
- If humans had the metabolism of a hummingbird, they would have to eat 300 hamburgers a day to survive.