Brown - The Huge Book of Unbelievable Facts

The Huge Book Of Unbelievable Facts

By

John Brown

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The Huge Book Of Unbelievable Facts

Copyright 2016 by John Brown

In 2012, North Korea developed a video game called "Pyongyang Racer" to promote tourism.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Racer )

Lauryn Hill attended Zach Braff's Bar Mitzvah.

Reference : ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauryn_Hill )

Lyudmila Pavlichenko is the deadliest female sniper in history, with 309 confirmed kills during the few years of World War II.

Reference : ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko )

Bratislava Airport is within an hour's drive of Vienna, Austria, Brno, Czech Republic, Gyr, Hungary, and Bratislava, Slovakia, making it the only airport to serve four countries.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratislava_Airport#Location )

Frequent porn consumption leads to decrease in gray-matter volume in the brain and functional connectivity between brain parts.

Reference: ( http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1874574&resultclick=1 )

The 7-10 split is the third most difficult spare to pick up in bowling, not the first. The hardest spare to convert is the "Greek Church," consisting of five remaining pins.

Reference: ( http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/02/hardest_shot_in_bowling_it_s_not_the_7_10_split_it_s_the_greek_church.html )

As well as wearing glasses and being "mild mannered" for his Clarke Kent disguise, Superman could compress his spine so that he appeared shorter and studies the "Meissner Acting Technique" to switch seamlessly between personas.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_character_and_cast )

A man bought a motel for the sole purpose of spying on guests having sex. He chose the motel because the attic was tall enough to stand up in. He cut peepholes from the attic into some rooms disguised as ceiling vents, watched guests for decades, keeping detailed notes of what he saw.

Reference: ( http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel )

The shortest song ever to enter the U.K. charts is just 36 seconds long. It is called "The Ladies' Bras".

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladies%27_Bras )

JetBlue offered a special $4 dollar flight from Burbank to Long Beach in response to construction shutting down the 405 freeway in 2014. The flight took 2 1/2 hours and was only 39 miles long.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_405_(California)#.22Carmageddon.22 )

Since 1985, there has been a U.S. Government assistance program to get a landline or cellphone for low income consumers so a person would able to connect to jobs, family and emergency services.

Reference: ( https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-consumers )

Heliocentrism existed before Jesus was born.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism )

Billionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig had frozen his genetic material, believing that his estranged ex-wifes daughter might challenge his will. 40 years later, and after his death, she sued the estate and lost, because DNA analysis proved that he wasnt her father.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_K._Ludwig )

The rhythm for the Bee Gees song Jive Talkin' was inspired by the sound their car made crossing a bridge they had to take on the way to the recording studio.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jive_Talkin%27#Origins_and_recording )

There is a part of Route 66 in New Mexico where the grooves in the road play "America the Beautiful" as you drive over it.

Reference: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Jm1zimCH0&feature=youtu.be )

A lost Godzilla fan film from 1983, made by former Toho employees, wasn't really lost at all. It's called Legendary Beast Wolfman vs. Godzilla. It was created by Toho employees in the 9 year gap between Terror of MechaGodzilla and The Return of Godzilla.

Reference: ( http://godzillafanon.wikia.com/wiki/Legendary_Beast_Wolfman_vs._Godzilla )

Smartphones contain 60 to 70 chemical elements; which are most of the elements that have ever been discovered.

Reference: ( http://www.soci.org/Chemistry-and-Industry/CnI-Data/2014/8/Endangered-elements )

The Alpine swift can stay in flight for over 6 months without landing once.

Reference: ( http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-bird-can-stay-in-flight-for-six-months-straight-903069/?no-ist )

A man spent 7 years gathering answers to all the criticisms in the "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible" and found that many of the criticisms were over 2000 years old and had been answered already by early church fathers.

Reference: ( http://www.berenddeboer.net/sab/ )

A 9 year old Andre Agassi beat Jim Brown in three straight sets to win a wager his father made in which his house was on the line.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Agassi )

The Sonic Team signed a deal to have Sonic wear Soap Shoes in Sonic Adventure 2.

Reference: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoP_O58gBBY&feature=youtu.be&t=430 )

Oranges are considered berries.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)#Botanical_information_and_terminology )

For Furious 7, the stunt team actually did push those cars out of a plane and film the fall.

Reference: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w7imxsoq3M&feature=youtu.be )

The Bank of England operates a Mutilated Banknotes service, so if you damage a bill in the washing machine, you can send it off for a replacement.

Reference: ( http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/damaged_banknotes.aspx )

Albert Einstein's inability to speak until a late age actually caused him to use "visual thought experiments", such as imagining trains and elevators, while working on physics problems. This is considered to be one of the reasons behind his success.

Reference: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk3KrP5F1Ao )

The first Summer Olympics to turn a profit was in 1932 in Los Angeles. The second was over fifty years later in 1984, also in Los Angeles.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#American_period )

It costs NASA more than $40,000 to ship the equivalent of a 2-liter bottle of water to the International Space Station, which is why the systems onboard the ISS recycle 75% of water needed from the astronauts urine and sweat.

Reference: ( https://www.rfidjournal.com/purchase-access?type=Article&id=13260&r=%2Farticles%2Fview%3F13260 )

The top 15 of most sold games ever are all from Nintendo.

Reference: ( http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/ )

A man dressed up as an armored truck driver and tricked Walmart into giving him $75,000.

Reference: ( http://www.businessinsider.com/man-posing-as-security-guard-steals-75000-from-oklahoma-wal-mart-2015-7 )

In Vietnamese culture, an extremely common remedy for cold is to scrape the skin in order to induce bruising. This practice is known as Co Gi and translates "to scrape wind", and it's believed to release unhealthy elements from the skin.

Reference: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_sha )

While scouting locations for Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick, looking at out the window, drove into a ditch and rolled the car, he then climbed on top and continued talking about the location he just found without ever mentioning the accident he just had.

Reference: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRkyKYz5SYM&feature=youtu.be&t=22m13s )

The proper way to retire a American Flag when it becomes unfit for display is by burning.

Reference: ( http://www.flagsusa.com/flag-retirement/ )

In 2003, the Dwarf Tossing Ban Act was introduced in Canada. The parliament rejected the bill.