14 Amazing Facts About The World

1.

Poon Lim survived 133 days adrift in the Pacific ocean on a 8' square wooden raft.

2.

In 1916 there was a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote.

3.

A man named Dean Karnazes is able to run 350 miles in under 81 hours without sleep.

4.

The first person in history whose name we know is Kushim, who was an accountant.

5.

In Japan houses are considered depreciating assets. All homes are destroyed by the time they are 38 and rebuilt.

6.

In 1992 a man named Stefan Mandel won a $27,036,142 jackpot by buying every single combination possible.

7.

EVE Online hired an economist to oversee the in-game money.

8.

The scene in Fight Club where Tyler is explaining the cost of a recall, when a car built by a company crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, is based on actual leaked memos from GM and Ford.

9.

Salvador Dali would avoid paying his tabs by drawing on the checks he wrote, making the checks a valuable piece of art.

10.

A Manhattan driver set a record by hitting 240 consecutive green lights.

11.

Before there were alarm clocks there were knockers-up, who were hired to shoot dried peas from a blow gun at people’s windows in order to wake them up in the morning.

12.

The Kingdom of Bhutan only has one international airport, and only a select number of pilots are certified to land there.

13.

Sylvester Stallone kept the two turtles from the 1976 movie Rocky, and they are still alive today at 44.

14.

Pablo Escobar’s personal hitman, responsible for 3500 murders, was released from jail in 2014 and is now a YouTube personality with 1 million subscribers.