The fox is the first animal to use the earth’s magnetic field to judge distance and hunt.
In 1982, Almeida family lost their pet tortoise Manuela, while their house was being renovated. 30 years later, they were cleaning out the attic after their father died and finally found Manuela… alive. They think she was able to survive by eating termites that lived in the piles of furniture their dad had been hoarding.
Lady Gaga without makeup is better looking than Lady Gaga with makeup.
Tom and Jerry has completed 76 years in 2016.
Scientists had a favorite curb in Hayward, CA, but the city accidentally destroyed it. Geologists studied the curb because it lay on the Hayward fault line and was being pulled 4mm apart each year. They enjoyed observing this evidence of Earth’s shifting plates from the 1970s up until 2016, when city finally decided to fix the sidewalk and unknowingly ruined it.
A homeless man in Thailand returned a lost wallet and ended up with a job and a new apartment. When the 44-years-old found a Hermes wallet dropped by factory owner Nifty Pongkriangyos, he ignored the credit cards and $570 inside and gave it to the police. Impressed with his honesty, Nifty hired him to the factory - a position that provided a salary and accommodation.
Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America, but he was the first to introduce transatlantic slavery to the New World. In 1492, he described Caribbean Island natives in his journal, nothing “I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men and govern them as I please.” Within a year, he’d initiated the enslavement, transport, abuse, mutilation, rape, and murder of millions of natives in what was probably the biggest slave trade of its time.
Travis – a chimpanzee that was socialized to humans since birth could open doors using keys, logged onto a computer to look at pictures, watch television using a remote control, feed hay to his owner’s horses, water plants & learned the schedules of passing ice cream trucks.
“Witch Windows”, or diagonal windows, exist almost exclusively in Vermont. The name comes from the superstition that witches cannot fly their broomsticks through slanted windows.
Slaves were forbidden from owning drums, as they were used to communicate. New Orleans was the only city where slaves were allowed to gather each Sunday to trade, sing, dance, and play music. This led to the birth of Jazz.