A popular Facebook page, Unbelievable Facts is "the source for the craziest, weirdest, and most incredible stories on the internet" and a boon to its 8.9 million followers who love learning new things and sharing their knowledge with others. 
1. During the 9/11 attacks, a dog named Rosella led a group of people, including her blind owner, out of the North Tower, up more than 1,463 steps. She stopped only once to calm a woman having a panic attack. 
2. Once in Paris, a bus driver kicked out all the passengers because they did not want to make room for a man in a wheelchair. Then he let the man into the cabin and left with one passenger. 
3. The second mate of the Titanic remained on board until the last, helping the passengers. At some point he got stuck under water and was saved only by an exploding boiler. During World War II, he saved 127 people during the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk. 
4. Trains in the Netherlands run on wind energy. An hour of operation of the windmill is enough for 193 kilometers; each day the mills generate enough energy for 5,500 trips. Thanks to this system, 600,000 passengers travel pollution-free every day. 
5. The Return of the Jedi crew made fun of Admiral Ackbar's design, calling it ugly. But director Richard Marquand refused to change it, saying it was good for children to know that good people are not always beautiful and bad people are not always ugly. 
6. When Kylie Jenner tried to register the trademark “Kylie” in the United States, she was sued by Kylie Minogue, who performed under the name “Kylie” even before Jenner was born. In 2017, Minogue won a case in which her lawyer called Jenner “a second-rate reality TV personality.” 
7. In the German city of Ulm, windproof and waterproof sleeping capsules have been installed on the streets for homeless people. “Ulm nests” made of steel and wood can accommodate up to two people and protect against wind, cold and precipitation. They are also equipped with solar panels, radio communications and motion sensors that alert social workers when the capsule is occupied. 
8. When conservationist Lawrence Anthony, aka the “Elephant Whisperer,” passed away, the wild elephants he helped save came to his home in South Africa to mourn him. They stood outside his house for two days before going their separate ways. 
9. A girl named Gaby Mann has been feeding the crows that fly into her garden since 2011. The crows return gifts to her, thus expressing their affection. Among the “treasures” that the birds brought to Gabi over the years: a black button, a small silver ball, a blue paper clip, a blue Lego piece, a yellow bead, a pearl-colored heart and other things. 
10. Native Americans planted the “Three Sisters” (their main crops—squash, corn, and climbing beans) near each other because they were mutually beneficial. The corn serves as a pole for the bean shoots to climb, the beans provide nitrogen in the soil and hold the corn in during strong winds, and the pumpkin holds moisture in the soil and keeps weeds from growing. 
11. Joseph Strauss, the engineer who designed the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, insisted on installing a safety net under the bridge during construction because he was concerned about the workers. The mesh saved the lives of 19 people. 
12. The famous aphorism “as soon as one door closes, another opens” actually belongs to Alexander Graham Bell. The quote ends with the words: “But often we look so long and sorrowfully at a closed door that we do not notice those that have opened.” 
13. In the First World War, after major battles, specially trained dogs were sent into the trenches to look for injured soldiers. They brought first aid supplies to the wounded and consoled the dying. The dogs were also trained to find medics and bring them to the wounded. These dogs were called “mercy dogs” and they saved the lives of thousands of people. 
14. Every year on August 1, at exactly five o'clock in the evening, Warsaw comes to a standstill: people and cars stop for one minute to honor the memory of the participants in the Warsaw Uprising, which began on August 1, 1944. 
15. River Phoenix was supposed to play a reporter in 1994's Interview with the Vampire, but died two weeks before filming began. The role was given to Christian Slater, who donated his fee from the film to two of Phoenix's favorite charities: Earth Trust and Earth Save. 
16. In 1991, a woman named Patricia Stallings was sentenced to life in prison for murder for allegedly poisoning her child with antifreeze. While incarcerated, Stallings gave birth to another child, who was placed in foster care. Some time later, the child developed the same symptoms as Stallings' first child. It turned out that both children had a rare genetic disease, the symptoms of which are similar to those of antifreeze poisoning. 
17. The Laws of Hammurabi, a legal code of the Old Babylonian period created almost 4,000 years ago (1775-1750 BC), was in some respects significantly ahead of its time. In addition to laws that addressed topics such as property rights, divorce, and the prohibition of incest, he also established a minimum wage. The Code was written 2000 years before the New Testament. 
18. Baking powder is a labor of love! English chemist and food manufacturer Alfred Bird wanted to invent bread specifically for his wife, who was allergic to eggs and yeast. As a result, in 1843, he invented an alternative - the first type of baking powder. 
19. Although Wayne's World was released several months after Freddie Mercury's death, the musician still managed to see the famous scene in which the heroes sing Bohemian Rhapsody in the car in advance. Mercury really liked the scene; He thought it was funny and thought that using the song in the film would allow the band to become popular again in America. 
20. In 1940, Jewish couple Hans and Margarethe Rey decided to flee Paris before the Nazis captured it. They left town on bicycles that Hans had collected and took with them a minimal amount of belongings, including a draft of the famous children's book Curious George. 
21. Elephants have their own funeral rituals. Repeatedly they “buried” dead or sleeping people and helped the wounded: once an elderly Turkana woman fell asleep under a tree, and when she woke up, she saw that an elephant was standing over her and very carefully touching her with its trunk. Soon other elephants approached them and began to “bury” her under the branches. The woman was found the next day safe and sound. 
22. Once, during an acting class taught by Stella Adler, aspiring actors were asked to portray chickens on which an atomic bomb was about to fall. Most of the students began to cackle and frantically rush around the room, and only Marlon Brando calmly sat down and pretended to be carrying an egg. When asked why he reacted so calmly, Brando said: “I’m a chicken - what do I even know about bombs?” 
23. Playwright George Bernard Shaw had a tiny hut in which he wrote his works. The hut stood on circular rails so that it could be turned during the day to follow the sunlight. Inside there was a typewriter, an electric heater, a telephone in case of need (for example, asking for food) and a cot on which you could take a short nap. Shaw named the hut "London" so that unwanted guests would be told that he had "gone to the capital." 
24. Stephen King is selling the film rights to some of his short stories for just $1 to give students and aspiring filmmakers the opportunity to make films based on his works. 
25. In 1894, British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone opened a library to share his own books with people who could not afford them. After spending £40,000, 85-year-old Gladstone then carted 32,000 books to a library a kilometer from his home. His daughter, who helped him along with a servant, said that her father wanted to “bring together books that had no readers with readers who had no books.” 
26. On many old buildings in the UK you can see the “Old Light” sign. It gives the homeowner a “right to light”: by law, if a window has served as a source of light for 20 years or longer, it cannot be blocked by a new building, wall or tree. 
27. Pianist Anton Rubinstein loved to lie in bed, and his wife came up with a clever way to make him get up. She played unfinished chords on the piano, and it irritated him so much that he got up and finished the chord. While he was doing this, his wife quickly made the bed to prevent him from going back to bed. 
28. Leonardo da Vinci made several replicas of a bull's heart by pouring hot wax into real ones. He then used wax casts to make glass models, through which he then passed water and seeds to study the hydraulic properties of the blood flowing through the heart and its valves. He also discovered vortex rings that help the heart close after each beat. 
29. In 1965, a Ukrainian from the village of Mezhirich wanted to expand the cellar in his house and accidentally discovered the lower jaw of a mammoth. During further excavations in the village, four huts were discovered, built from 149 mammoth bones. These huts, approximately 15,000 years old, are the oldest shelters built by primitive people. 
30. A Chinese resident once purchased a refundable first-class ticket, which gave him access to the airport's VIP area, where rich passengers can eat for free. Over the course of a year, the man rescheduled his flight to another day 300 times in order to eat for free. When the airline figured out his cunning plan, he simply returned his ticket and his money was returned. 
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