30 interesting facts that they won’t teach you at school (31 photos)

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the digital world we live in? Information flies past us faster than a supersonic plane, gadgets are updated every now and then, and professions change like a chameleon on a rainbow. Well, in this whirlwind of events, it’s really not surprising to miss something interesting. Fortunately, in the “Today I Learned” community, users share interesting facts that they just discovered themselves.







In the 1930s, a popular social movement called the Technocracy Movement emerged in the United States. Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers with sufficient expertise to manage the economy.





In 2018, a hacker hacked 100 thousand MikroTik routers and installed a security program on them, thereby protecting the devices from intruders.



Walmart failed in Germany in the 2000s. According to experts, employees did not like the team-building activities, as well as the requirement to smile at customers.



In 1980, the producers of Star Wars released a Christmas album. The song "R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas" was performed by a 17-year-old boy who worked as a janitor at a recording studio. Jon Bon Jovi turned out to be a young talent.



The first cat name known to history is Nejem. It was worn by a cat that belonged to the high priest of Amun Puimra in the 15th century BC. Nejem translates as "sweet".



The married couple Ida and Isidor Strauss were passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. They had the opportunity to board the lifeboat together, but Isidore gave up his seat to the child. Ida did not leave her husband on the sinking liner, declaring: “We have always been together, we will die together.” They were last seen on sun loungers on one of the decks of the sinking liner.



Scientists believe that cats domesticated themselves.



During the filming of the film "Terminator", Arnold Schwarzenegger came to one of the restaurants in Los Angeles wearing the makeup of a damaged robot. The visitors fled in horror.



In 2002, the group Chumbawamba received $100,000 from General Motors for the right to use one of its songs in a Pontiac commercial. The musicians gave the funds they received to activists opposing General Motors.



Orcas are subject to cultural trends. So, in the 1980s they wore dead salmon as a headdress. This "fashion" spread among three separate Pacific populations.



In 2007, John Smeaton, a former baggage handler, helped prevent a terrorist attack at Glasgow Airport. He kicked one of the attackers in the groin. Smeeton received a medal for bravery from Queen Elizabeth.



Octopuses have nine brains. The central one is located in the head, and the other eight are distributed over eight tentacles. Each tentacle can independently taste, touch and perform basic movements, but the central brain is responsible for overall coordination.



The title of Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing is ambiguous, since in Elizabethan England the word "nothing" was also slang for female genitalia.



In 2013, a California couple walking their dog found a treasure. The coffee cans contained more than 1,427 gold coins worth over $10 million.



Playing Tetris may help prevent post-traumatic stress.



Most episodes of Mr. Bean begin with choral singing. The choir sings in Latin: "Ecce homo qui est faba" - "Behold a man like a bean."



In the German ending to Snow White, the evil queen is forced to wear red-hot iron shoes and dance until she dies.



In Scotland, two students went to an art exhibition and left a pineapple on the table to see if it would become an exhibit. When they returned four days later, the pineapple was already in the display case.



"Deep Empires" is a 2011 film that cost $130 million and was never released.



6 months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a calendar was found on the sunken battleship USS West Virginia in a sealed room indicating that three sailors lived another 16 days after the incident.



In Germany, there is a man named Mark Wubbenhorst who must drink 20 liters of water daily to avoid dying from dehydration. The man suffers from an extremely rare disease - diabetes insipidus.



All clownfish are born male. When the only female dies, the dominant male changes sex and becomes a female.



The International Shooting Federation banned women from competing against men after Chinese athlete Zhang Shan won a gold medal in clay pigeon shooting at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.



There is a special type of wasp - the horse wasp. The insect is common in the eastern United States and serves as a natural biological control, killing horse flies.



A female bear named Grizzly 399 from Grand Teton National Park, USA, has become a celebrity and a tourist attraction. The animal prefers to live closer to people. The bear was born in 1996, several times she became the mother of triplets.



Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a parody of Daredevil (Marvel). The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Daredevil were the result of a radioactive mutation. Daredevil fights the “Hand”, and the turtles fight the “Foot” clan (translated as “leg”). Daredevil's sensei is called Stick (translated as "stick"), and the turtles are named Splinter ("splinter, sliver").



When the Argentine Navy submarine San Juan went missing in 2017, sonar detected a noise in the search area that sounded like tools hitting metal. But the analysis determined that the sounds did not come from a submarine, but from a biological source.



In the 17th century, when coffee arrived in Europe, some people viewed it with suspicion and fear, calling it "the bitter invention of Satan." In 1615, the clergy of Venice appealed to Pope Clement VIII with a request to intervene in the situation. He found the drink so pleasant that he gave it papal approval.



In 2013, Italian surgeons divided residents into two groups to train in laparoscopic surgery. They found that the group that was assigned to play Nintendo Wii for 1 hour/5 days a week performed better on test operations than their counterparts who did not play video games.



A border collie named Chaser learned 1,022 words in her life and was recognized as the creature with the largest memory capacity outside of humans.