That said, in this Internet era of information explosion, no matter how high your education is and how wide your knowledge is, there are always some things you don't know, and there are always some things that will subvert your worldview...
There is a "strange facts" account on foreign Facebook, and the content shared is unbelievable at first glance, but if you look closely, it is true...
There are only 22 countries in the world that have not been invaded or attacked by the British... The 22 countries are Andorra, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Côte d'Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, the Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Albania and Ireland. There are only 22 small countries in the big countries, but Ireland is quite unexpected...
Violet Jessope is a cruise ship nurse. She has worked on the Titanic, Britain and Olympic Sisters, and has experienced 3 shipwrecks in 6 years... The Titanic crashed into a glacier and sank, Britannia was sunk by a submarine attack, and the Olympic collided with a warship and nearly sank! She survived three times and survived to 1971.
Heidi Lamar was once hailed as the most beautiful woman in the world, the first actress in the history of cinema to perform nude shots, but she was not only a famous Hollywood movie star, but also a great mathematician and inventor... The Bluetooth and WIFI we use now are inseparable from her invention patents, but she has been hoping that people will not only see her appearance all her life...
Once, in a play staged in an ancient Roman theater, if a character on the stage died, it was possible that he was really dead, because this was a way of executing criminals and slaves at that time...
In the 19th century, in sewage-plagued Chicago, cholera broke out for 6 years, and in order to improve the sewer system, the entire city was raised by about 3 meters in 1850-1860... Also known as the Raiding of Chicago.
In 2004, 14-year-old boy John (not his real name) became the first person in British history to be sentenced for plotting "murdering himself"... The depressed teenager is addicted to the virtual world, disguised as a female spy of a British intelligence agency on the Internet, and tricks his friends into becoming a glorious British agent with a mission, and this sacred mission is to assassinate John himself, saying that it is for national security...
In 2017, Lawrence Ripple, a 70-year-old man in Kansas, was sentenced to 6 months of house arrest for robbing a bank, and his reason for robbing the bank was to avoid his wife, saying that he would rather go to jail than stay at home...
In May 1986, Michel Vajoul, a prisoner at the Chicago prison in the United States, threatened the prison guards with a fake grenade made of nectarines and forcibly climbed on the roof of the prison. Then his wife landed on the roof in a helicopter and successfully escaped from prison with him... In order to help her husband escape from prison, the wife went out of her way to learn to fly a plane.
In 2017, in Detroit, the sin capital of the United States, there was an embarrassing police arrest of the police, a group of undercover police disguised as drug dealers and another group of undercover police disguised as buyers, there was an exchange of fire on the street... Fortunately, there were no casualties.
In 2012, a foreign woman traveling in Iceland accidentally joined a search and rescue team to look for someone who was missing in a tour group, but after some search and rescue, she found that everyone had come to find her...
Crab phenomenon, crustaceans from non-crab to crab a convergent evolutionary phenomenon, also known as short-tailed, at least five groups of decapod crustaceans are not originally crabs, for example, porcelain crabs are crabized dwarf lobsters... Are the ultimate evolutionary forms of life all crabs???
Wrigley Chewing Gum Company, in the beginning, is actually a company that produces soap, when buying soap, it will be accompanied by soda powder, and the giveaway soda powder is more popular than soap, so it is changed to the production of soap, as well as the accompanying chewing gum... As a result, the demand for freebies of chewing gum actually exceeded that of baking soda, and instead of producing chewing gum.
In 1993, a French man named Emile Le Rey broke down on his way through the Sahara Desert, so he demolished the Citroën 2CV he was driving, then DIY a motorcycle with car parts and rode it out of no man's land... PS: When he returned to civilized society, he was fined for driving an illegal vehicle...
The treadmill, at first, was actually a torture device in prison... In order to reform idle criminals, a British jazz invented a device called the "Eternal Staircase", which can accommodate up to 40 criminals, and crush their will by climbing non-stop for several hours a day... No wonder many people say that they keep up with the punishment after each run!
During the American Civil War, there was a battle called the "Picnic War", and many melon-eating masses from Washington, with food, tents, and even opera house eyes... Ran to the Manassas countryside in Virginia, singing, drinking, and eating barbecues while watching the north and south armies fighting...
Viking women can divorce because their husbands wear "women's clothes"... In the ancient Viking society, women had a high status, free marriage can be divorced if they want to leave, if not "sexual bliss", or if the husband is too feminine (wearing too revealing clothes or women's clothing), they can divorce the husband.
The iconic green code in the movie "The Matrix" looks very tall, but it is actually just a Japanese sushi recipe...
Japan and Montenegro were at war for 101 years, because in the Russo-Japanese War, Montenegro allied with Russia and declared war on Japan, and later when Russia signed an armistice with Japan, it did not take Montenegro with it, and it was annexed after World War I, until Montenegro regained its independence in 2006, and only after the signing of a peace treaty with Japan ended the state of war...
The Battle of Ittenburg, a battle that took place in Ittenburg in May 1945, in which the Americans joined forces with the Wehrmacht to beat up the SS in order to rescue French prisoners of war... It was also the only battle in World War II in which the U.S. and German armies fought side by side.
North Korean Yang Jing-chung, the most legendary prisoner of World War II, was captured 3 times in 6 years, fighting for 3 different countries... In 1938, at the age of 18, he was drafted into the Japanese army, captured by the Soviets in 1939, and sent to fight the Germans. Then he was captured by the Nazis, and the next day in a battle with the Allies, he was captured by the Americans...
During World War II, a Soviet woman named Maria Oktyabrskaya, after her husband was killed by the Nazis, sold her property in revenge and gave herself a whole T-34 tank... Drove a tank to beat the Nazis and became an ace tanker. After his death in battle, he was awarded the Hero Medal of the USSR, the Lenin Medal, the Order of patriotism of the USSR ...
During the Second World War, the Japanese invaded the indonesian waters, all the Allied ships had to retreat from Java, in order to avoid the pursuit of Japanese warships and aircraft, the Royal Dutch Navy's minesweeper HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen disguised as a tropical island, the crew covered the deck with branches, and painted the exposed surface into a rocky appearance, moored during the day, docked at night, sailed for eight days, and finally fled to Australia... It was also the only ship to successfully escape Java.
In 2019, Zelenskiy's Party of Servants of the People won the Ukrainian election with 73 percent of the vote, and Zelenskiy was elected president. However, the outrageous thing is that he does not have any political experience, his job is a comedian, because in 2015 he was well-known for playing the president in a movie called "Servant of the People", and when the show was still airing in 2019, he played the president in the TV series while running for the president in the real world...
Some female penguins engage in "prostitution". They would have sex and trade pebbles with male penguins to build their nests. However, sometimes they also cheat on males once the pebbles reach the hands and run away...
The fork-toothed seabream, also known as hallucinogenic fish, is a fish that can cause severe hallucinations when eaten for up to two days. In ancient Rome, also known as the "fish that made dreams", it was a "party drug" at that time...
Giant Penguin Scam: In 1948, a few overeating youths in Florida made a pair of iron-cast three-toed boots and shoes, and made many footprints on the beach at night when no one was there, and these strange footprints made the locals believe that there was a giant penguin monster 5 meters tall wandering in their land... This prank lasted for 10 years, causing panic and rumors, until the truth was revealed 40 years later.
American scientists found in a study that male fruit flies, after failing courtship, will go looking for alcohol to "borrow wine to pour sorrow"...
In 2019, Ryan Cook, a 10-year-old boy from Northumbria, England, told his parents that he saw a suspicious person at his school, so his parents called the police, and Cook also painted a portrait of "God" to help the police investigate... The police also "valued" Cook's sketch and questioned the school staff with it, and the outrageous doorman said that he had indeed seen the man, but only a visitor to the school... Cook received a police commendation for this.
In 1998, Honduras hired Japanese engineers to spend a lot of money to build a bridge over the Choluteca River in the territory. But shortly after the bridge was completed, hurricane Mitch struck the river and destroyed roads on both sides. The bridge is still alive, but the river is running...
David Johnson, also known as the world-famous Bushman, is a performance artist in San Francisco, USA, who made a living by performing to scare passers-by for more than thirty years from 1980 to 2014. According to Johnson, you can earn $60,000 in a good year, so there are even competitors...
The world is big, there is no wonder...