This is how you live in the world and don’t know... And when you find out, you will be amazed to the core! 
Rapper Flo Rida tests his new songs in strip clubs to see if girls dance to them before releasing them. 
Scientists working at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia spent 17 years trying to identify powerful but extremely short radio bursts that appeared at seemingly random intervals. In 2015, they finally determined the cause: premature opening of the facility's microwave. 
In the opera aria from The Fifth Element, composer Eric Sierra deliberately wrote a number of moments that he considered impossible to perform - to make the singer sound like an alien. When opera singer Inva Muls took on the role, she sang 85% of what the composer considered technically impossible. The rest was assembled in the studio on the computer. 
Jean Boulet set the world record for helicopter flight altitude in 1972 - 12,277 meters. During the descent, the engines failed, and he landed the helicopter without engines, setting another record - for landing a helicopter without an engine. 
Bats eat so many insects that they save the U.S. more than $1 billion a year in crop damage and pesticides. 
To collect taxes, Christian IV of Denmark asked captains of ships crossing the Sound to estimate the value of their cargo, which was used as a tax base without further verification. However, the king also claimed the right to buy the entire cargo at this price. 
Figure skating competitions in the 1800s involved skates drawing pictures on the ice. This required precision and was not as fast as numbers in modern figure skating. 
The famous photo of Einstein with his tongue hanging out was taken when the scientist expressed his irritation with the paparazzi endlessly asking him to smile on the day of his 72nd birthday. It became iconic mainly because Einstein himself ordered many prints and began sending them to friends. 
It is incorrect to assume that one dog year is equal to seven human years - compared to humans, dogs age faster when young and slower as they age. 
Secession is an unusual form of rebellion first tried in ancient Rome. When Rome's ruling class became too corrupt and unfair to the commoners, the latter would band together and leave the city, leaving the elite to fend for themselves. 
The London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito that lives exclusively in stations and tunnels. 
After the TV show Teletubbies ended, the owner of the filming area had to tear down the hill and flood the field where the program was filmed due to the number of people trespassing onto his property to see the Teletubbies. 
“A feeling of impending doom” is the official symptom of a mistyped blood transfusion. 
There are no bridges along the entire length of the Amazon, which is 6,992 kilometers long. 
A suicidal teenager in the UK used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to kill him. He survived the attack but became the first person in British history to be charged with inciting his own murder. 
In 1999, Danish physicist Lene Hau was able to slow the speed of light to 61 km/h, and later was able to completely stop it, manipulate it and even move it to another location. 
In humans, there is a gene that controls how long you sleep. “Short sleepers” after 4-6 hours of sleep function in the same way as a normal person getting 8 hours of sleep. 
Bach wrote the Brandenburg Concertos in 1721 as part of an application for a job with the Margrave, to which he never received a response. The concertos were not published until 1850 and were almost completely lost during the Second World War. 
When deaf people suffer stroke-related brain damage, they often lose the ability to communicate using signs. These symptoms are strikingly similar to various forms of linguistic aphasia - the loss of the ability to speak and form words and sentences - that often occurs after stroke in ordinary people. 
A fire destroyed much of the Harvard Library collection in 1764. Only a small number of books survived, including 144 that were in hand at that moment. One of these books was found and returned in 1997. 
Today in Italy there are more than 350 recognized types of pasta. But in the 13th century there were only 4 main types: spaghetti, ravioli, macaroni and gnocchi. 
When Vincent Price agreed to score Thriller, he was given the choice between receiving a percentage of the album's proceeds or a flat fee of $20,000. He chose 20 thousand dollars. 
The first McDonalds Drive was created for soldiers who were not allowed to get out of the car in uniform. 
After Niccolò Macchiavelli was fired as ambassador, tortured and exiled
farm, he would come home at night, take off the dirty clothes he wore for field work, and put on an ambassadorial suit, only to study alone in his office. He claimed that he simply could not live without his usual work. 
Of the 312 people selected as NASA astronauts, at least 207 were Boy Scouts as children. Of the 24 who walked on the Moon, 20 were Boy Scouts, including 11 of the 12 who walked on the Moon and all three members of the Apollo 13 crew. 
The last king of Egypt, Faud II, is still alive. He ascended the throne when he was just 192 days old and was overthrown a year after his father was exiled and Egypt declared a republic. 
Harambe, the only gorilla in history to attack a zoo visitor, was an orphan. His mother, sibling and two half-siblings were killed when a minister left a bucket of chlorine tablets near a heater. Toxic fumes entered the gorilla enclosure and killed all four. 
In 2000, ten functional blenders containing live goldfish were exhibited at an art exhibition in Denmark. Visitors were given the option to click the “on” button. At least one visitor killed two goldfish. This led to the museum director being accused of cruelty to animals, but he was soon acquitted. 
D-Day was originally scheduled to occur on June 5, but meteorologist James Stagg persuaded Dwight Eisenhower to delay it a day at the very last minute. Weather conditions had to be suitable for landing, and planners took into account tides, wind speeds and even the lunar cycle. 
When Abraham Lincoln took off his top hat to give his first inaugural address, he looked around awkwardly for a place to put it. The defeated presidential candidate, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, stepped forward, said, "Allow me," and picked up his hat to hold on his knee as he spoke.
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