Scott Matthews - 3666 Interesting, Fun And Crazy Facts You Wont Believe Are True - The Knowledge Encyclopedia To Win Trivia (Amazing World Facts Book)

Scott Matthews is a geologist, world traveller and author of the 'Amazing World Facts' series! He was born in Brooklyn New York by immigrant parents from the Ukraine but grew up in North Carolina. Scott studied at Duke University where he graduated with a degree in Geology and History.

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1. In 2013 a lost Egyptian city named Heracleion was discovered underwater after being lost for 1200 years in the Mediterranean Sea.
2. There's an artist named Brian Lai that has the unique ability to draw in negatives.
3. In Japanese myth there's a creature called the Asiarai Yashiki. It's a giant unwashed foot that appears before you and demands to be washed. If you don't wash it, it rampages through your house.
4. There's a dog named Faith that was born with no front legs but learned to walk on its hind legs. The dog and its owner both travel to military hospitals to demonstrate that even a dog with a severe disability can live a full life.
5. There's a 34 year old chimpanzee named Kanzi that not only knows how to start a fire and cook food, but knows how to make omelettes for himself.
6. In 2013 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, construction workers permanently cemented a truck into a sidewalk after the owner refused to move it.
7. The Canadian post office has assigned a postal code of H, O, H, O, H, O to the North Pole where anyone can send a letter to Santa Claus. Every year more than one million letters are addressed to Santa Claus, each of which are answered in the same language they were written in.
8. There's a spa called Bali Heritage Reflexology and Spa in Jakarta, Indonesia that uses pythons placed on a customer's body as a form of massage treatment.
9. In 2010 a man got lost in the woods of northern Saskatchewan and chopped down power lines just to draw attention to himself, in hopes that someone would rescue him. It worked.
10. Coffee was so influential in early Turkish culture that the word for breakfast literally translates to 'before coffee' and the word brown translates to 'the color of coffee'.
11. The longest that anyone has ever survived in a shipwrecked raft was 133 days by a Chinese man named Poon Lim in 1942. He survived by fishing, drinking bird blood and even killing a shark with a jug of water. He lived to the age of 72, dieing in 1991.
12. In order to be a London Black Cab driver one is expected to know 25,000 roads and 50,000 points of interest in order to pass the test called The Knowledge. Applicants usually need twelve appearances and 34 months of preparation to pass it.
13. In Tunisia you can book an overnight stay at Luke Skywalker's boyhood home which is a real hotel called the Hotel Sidi Driss for only $10.
14. There is a lake in the country of Palau called Jellyfish Lake where jellyfish have evolved without stingers. These golden jellyfish are completely harmless to humans and you can even swim with them.
15. In 1770 the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick stating that any woman found guilty of seducing a man into matrimony by a cosmetic means would be tried for witchcraft.
16. A 'butt' was a medieval unit of measurement for wine. Technically, a butt-load of wine is 125 gallons (475 liters).
17. Tap water in Canada is regulated to a higher standard than bottled water.
18. In 1947, Sugar Ray Robinson, one of the greatest boxers of all time, backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent. After being convinced to fight he went into the ring and actually killed his opponent.
19. In 2011, the Coble family lost their three children, two girls and a boy in an unfortunate car accident. A year later the mother gave birth to triplets, two girls and one boy.
20. The highest scoring soccer game in history recognised by the Guiness Book of World Records was 149 to zero between two teams in Madagascar in 2002. It happened because one of the teams began scoring on themselves in protest of a bad call by one of the referees.
21. The Sahara is only in a dry period and is expected to be green again in 15,000 years.
22. In 1567 Hans Steininger who once had the longest beard in the world at 4.5 feet (1.4 meters) long, died when he broke his neck after accidentally stepping on it.
23. Deceased North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's official biography lists among his achievements a 38-shot round of golf, the ability to control weather, the need to never have to poop, and being the creator of the hamburger.
24. David B. Leak was an American soldier from the Korean War who was given the Medal of Honor after killing five soldiers, four with his bare hands, while giving medical attention to one of his comrades after being shot.
25. Thomas Edison taught his second wife Mina Miller Morse code so that they could communicate in secret by tapping each other's hands when their families were around.