Warning, here is a list of "WTF" facts that you probably won't believe at first. Today you'll learn about a fruit you've misunderstood all your life, its incredible football heritage and why Putin has such a big ego.
Here's something amazing facts, which at first you will think we made up, but we can swear to you right here and now that they are real.
1. Banana is a berry.
Embarrassing, isn't it? All this time, the banana humbly looked at you from the fruit bowl, hiding its dirty double life. But alas, banana is a berry, which is defined as "a fleshy fruit produced from a single carpel in a flower".
2. Heroin was once a medicine for children's cough.
German chemist Heinrich Dreser deserves all the credit for inventing aspirin. He deserves a little less credit for putting heroin on the shelves in 1890, and as cough medicine. In 1913, heroin was withdrawn from the shelves by the Bayer company due to side effects.
3. Prince Charles is a relative of Dracula.
In 2012, the Romanian tourist association boasted that they had found it kinship ties between the heir to the throne in Great Britain and Vlad Tepeš, the 15th century nobleman who inspired Bram Stoker's horror film, Dracula. Although most of them thought it was just a publicity stunt, Sir Ian Moncreiffe, who researched the roots of the British royal family, found that Prince Charles is the great-grandson of Vlad in the sixteenth generation.
4. The Brazilians have never beaten the Norwegians in football.
World football superpower she never beat the Norwegians. The Norwegians won twice, but twice the result was a draw.
5. Russia is about the same size as the planet Pluto.
Russia is supposed to be approximately the same size in terms of surface area, such as the planet Pluto. This surely only inflames the ego of Russian President Vladimir Putin even more.
6. In space, it is impossible for us to vomit without vomiting.
Because of gravity, our stomachs in space cannot expel their contents on the upward path. But gravity is not strong enough for those that they care about.
In space, you can't avoid throwing up when you feel like it.7. The polar bear once lived in the Tower of London fortress.
In 1252, the Norwegian King Haakon to the English King Henry III. donated a polar bear. The King of England then allegedly imprisoned him as a pet in the Tower of London fortress and allowed him to swim on a chain right into the River Thames for food.
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8. In Texas, a urologist named Dr. Dick Chopp.
Urologist Dick Chopp, who performs a vasectomy (surgical termination or partial removal of the vas deferens), is a prime example of nominative determinism.
9. The founder of the dating site match.com was dumped by a girl for a man she met on the site.
Gary Kremen, the founder of the dating site match.com, asked his friends and girlfriend to sign up when he set up the site. But he didn't realize that she would be his chosen one soon found a new love.
10. The founder of Pringles is buried in the packaging of the chips.
Fredric Baur, the man behind Pringles in the sleeve, wanted to be buried in this exact casing. His children made his wish come true.
11. Diamonds can also be made from peanut butter.
Researcher Dan Frost applied 1.3 million times the pressure of our atmosphere to peanut butter. And miraculously, when the pressure was released, it was in place, where there was peanut butter, a diamond shone.
12. The movie This Is Spinal Tap is on IMDB the only movie rated up to 11 and not up to 10.
You just checked, didn't you?
13. Dolly Parton once entered a contest to find a Dolly Parton lookalike and lost.
Even worse, men were competing. Dolly Parton later told ABC that she got in line with the contestants, and when she walked on stage, she received the tiniest round of applause.
14. The French last used the guillotine in 1977.
The last head rolled out from under the guillotine in 1977. The victim was Tunisian immigrant Hamida Djandoubi, who killed his girlfriend.
15. Today you will shrink by one centimeter (it will be the same tomorrow and the day after that...).
Daily activities cause our vertebrae to move closer together during the day, which means we will lose about 1 centimeter in height from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed. We "grow" back at night.
