Do you know that Brazilian prisoners can shorten their sentences by reading and writing essays about them? There are many interesting facts waiting for you to explore below.
1. The Netherlands is closing prisons due to lack of prisoners.
2. Chihuahua dogs were originally raised to eat meat like chickens and pigs.
3. Popcorn has been eaten for nearly 7,000 years and is one of the oldest snacks in history.
4. Brazilian prisoners can shorten their sentences by reading and writing essays about them.
5. Author Peter Pan has decided to donate authorship to a children's hospital so they can always collect royalties for hospitals.
6. Google is really a misspelling when registering domain names, the original word is Googol.
7. Lobster should be cooked when alive because when the shrimp dies, the bacteria will multiply rapidly.Cooking live lobster reduces the risk of food poisoning.
8. Humans kill about 11,417 sharks per hour while sharks kill only about 12 people a year.
9. Pablo Picasso is so poor that he has to burn most of his paintings for heating.
10. The world's heaviest ring is Najmat Taiba in Dubai.It weighs 57 kg and is adorned with 5.17 kg of Swarovski stones (the most artificial diamond).
11. In 1567, the man who was believed to have the longest beard in the world died after stumbling on his beard while running to escape a fire.
12. Michael Jackson plans to hold a meeting at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 but overslept.
13. Cher Ami, a post-WWII pigeon, saved 194 lives by continuing her flight after losing one leg, one eye and being shot through the chest to spread the word. .
14. The village of Giethoorn in the Netherlands does not have any roads, the houses in the village are fully connected by the canal system and the pedestrian bridges.
15. A Rubik block has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different permutations.
16. All parts in the human body can be replaced by machines, except the brain.
17. Elephants are one of the world's most sentimental creatures.They are known for rescuing other animals, such as trapped dogs or cats.
18. The Oxford Dictionary has officially included the word "muggle" in Harry Potter and it means "someone who doesn't have any skills / abilities".
19. The CIA used to spend $ 20 million training a cat to spy on the Soviet Union, but it was hit by a car and died.
