13 Fascinating Facts To Feed Your Brain

1.

Billy Joel never sells front row seats in order to see the real fans right in front of him. He gives them away to random people in the cheap seats so that front row isn't always just wealthy people.

2.

Tigers can, and will, take revenge on those who have wronged them. They are one of the most vengeful animals on the planet.

3.

Firefighters have emergency fire shelters they can use as a last resort. They are made of aluminum foil and silica that can allow them to withstand heat up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit

4.

Casu marzu, a Sardinian cheese, contains live maggots which can jump up to six inches. Squeamish consumers sometimes put the cheese in a sealed bag. Starved for oxygen, the maggots jump around creating �pitter-patter� sounds; once the sounds stop, the maggots are dead and the cheese is eaten.

5.

Hajimi Fuji, who volunteered for the kamikaze but was refused acceptance because he had a wife and two young children. To honour his wish his wife drowned her two young girls and drowned herself. Hajimi then flew as a kamikaze pilot, meeting his death on the 28th May 1945.

6.

Freddie Mercury had a throat infection at the time of Live Aid and was advised by his doctors to not risk performing at the festival. He defied their orders, and Queen�s set went down in history as one of the best performances of all time

7.

In 1998 Bill O'Reilly wrote a novel about a tall, bitter, sexually predatory newsman who gets forced out of his job and starts murdering former colleagues who helped to ruin his career.

8.

During the Holocaust, Polish doctors Eugene Lazowski and Stanis?aw Matulewicz saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake Typhus epidemic. The Germans quarantined the area instead of risking outbreaks by sending them to concentration camps

9.

For those who jumped from the WTC on 9/11/2001, the fall lasted 10 seconds. They struck the ground at just under 150 MPH � not fast enough to lose consciousness while falling, but fast enough to ensure instant death on impact. The deaths of those who jumped were ruled homicide, not suicide

10.

The only reason a Scottish bagpiper wasn't shot by German snipers on D-Day was that they believed he had gone crazy

11.

When Stalin's first son was captured, Hitler offered to trade him for Friedrich Paulus, a field marshal who led the 6th army into Stalingrad. When Stalin heard of this, he allegedly said, �I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.�

12.

In the 13th century, Genghis Khan proposed 'friendship and peace' with the fellow nomadic Khwarezmian Empire in Persia. The Khwarezmia shah ordered a Mongol trade delegation killed, prompting Khan to invade the empire, kill 1.25 million, and destroy the Khwarezmian Empire.

13.

There was a Jewish boxer named Salamo Arouch imprisoned at Auschwitz. He was forced to fight fellow prisoners. The losers were sent to the gas chambers or shot. He survived more than 2 years and 200 fights, eventually being released when the camp was liberated.