14 Fascinating Facts To Expand Your View of The World

1. Spending several months salary on an engagement ring was a marketing campaign created by De Beers in the 1930's.

2. Bees make decisions collectively and democratically.

3. In 2006 Guy Goma showed up for a job interview at the BBC, but was mistaken for Guy Kewney and was put on T.V.

4. There is a day in November in South Korea where everyone makes silence in order to help students concentrate for their most important exams.

5. The town of Rjukan, Norway receives no sunlight for 6 months of the year. So they installed 3 large mirrors to reflect light into the town square.

6. The highest grossing independent pizzeria in America is the Moose's Tooth Pub in Anchorage, Alaska, with Annual sales of $6 million.

7. Native people in the Andes evolved with stronger hearts to pump more blood in low oxygen altitudes.

8. In Athens people could vote to ostracize anyone who was growing too powerful and becoming a threat to democracy.

9. Burger King tried to get the movie IT banned because they claimed it was unlawful free advertising for McDonald's.

10. Vince Shlomi once wrote a comedy film with a budget of $500,000, it only grossed $856 at the box office.

11. In 2004 215 restaurants in Guizou, China were closed down after being charged with lacing their food with opium to make their customers addicted to the food.

12. A 1984 episode of Thomas the Tank Engine had the workers brick Henry into a tunnel after he refused to go out in the rain.

13. Joseph Trombins survived the world trade center bombing in 1993, only to be killed later on September 11, 2001.

14. Mike Tyson’s Training Regiment included waking up at 4am, jogging 5-miles. Then he would do 2000 sit-ups, 500 pushups, 500 dips, 500 shrugs and about 30 minutes of neck bridges daily. He repeated this 6 days a week.