10 interesting facts that you may learn for the first time (11 photos)
Our brain, like air, needs to develop and in order to keep it in good shape, we need to learn something new every day. In this post you will read interesting information to replenish your knowledge base.
1. Savvy Marlon Brando
When Marlon Brando took acting lessons, his teacher instructed the group to act as if they were chickens about to be blown up by a nuclear bomb. While everyone started cackling like crazy, Marlon just “sat quietly and hatched the egg.” When the teacher asked him what was wrong with him, he replied: “I’m a chicken, I don’t know anything about bombs.”
2. Saving the enemy
In 1996, a teenage girl of color named Keshia Thomas defended a KKK member who was about to be lynched. The girl said that despite her beliefs, no one deserves to be hurt.
3. Second language
Scientists have determined that when people use their second language to think through a problem, they no longer rely on their innate intuition, but instead think rationally and make better decisions.
4. Woe from mind
People with PhDs are more likely to experience mental illness and depression.
5. Monkeys and golf
When people first started playing golf in India, the monkeys started stealing the balls, so they had to change the rules and throw from where the monkey threw the ball.
6. Crazy antics
Billionaire Richard Branson is known for his crazy antics, he designed a hot air balloon in the shape of a UFO and hired a dwarf disguised as an alien to scare people.
7. History of the stethoscope
The stethoscope was invented by French physician René Laennec, who felt uncomfortable putting his ear to the breasts of young women.
8. Happy Rescue
Jose Salvador Alvarengato is a fisherman who was found in the Pacific Ocean, near the Marshall Islands. Jose is the only person in history who managed to survive in the open ocean, without normal food or fresh water for more than a year. He admitted that the ship had seen him, but they only waved back.
9. Bugatti Buyers
Statisticians have found that the average Bugatti buyer usually owns 84 cars, 3 private jets and a yacht.
10. Keanu Reeves Motorcycles
Keanu Reeves used a percentage of his earnings from The Matrix to buy motorcycles for all the film's stuntmen.