15 Fascinating Facts To Feed Your Brain

1. Scarlett Johansson actually approached random men while filming Under the Skin. Some of the footage ended up in the film.

2. Judges are more likely to grant parole at the beginning of the day and almost none at the end.

3. When Ronald Reagan developed Alzheimers he used to rake leaves from his pool for hours, not aware the secret service was replenishing them.

4. A restaurant in New York has a grandmother from a different country design the menu each day that honors her native cuisine.

5. In 1957 five US air force officers stood at ground zero directly under a nuclear explosion to prove how "safe" it was.

6. John Belushi's drug dealer was charged with first degree murder for administering the injection that killed him.

7. Farmers are hacking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware, which is the only way to "own" them, rather than rent them for life.

8. Hershey's once developed a chocolate bar for the US army that would remain solid up to 120F.

9. There is a rare type of insomnia where you just don't sleep. It leads to insanity and death.

10. Motorcycles have a 35% higher risk of a fatal accident than a car.

11. A Verizon employee once outsourced his job to a developer in China, who was considered the best developer at Verizon.

12. A Catholic priest in Brazil tried to raise money by taking to the sky with 1,000 balloons. He went missing and was found dead 2 months later.

13. A fisherman once nursed a crocodile back to health after it had been shot. It became part of the man's family for 20 years.

14. After the siege of Leningrad the NKVD jailed and shot people who resorted to cannibalism.

15. In the Marvel universe the only possible timeline where humanity is allowed to prosper is when Doctor Doom is a allowed to become ruler.