Every year approximately 500 meteorites hit the Earth

There are secret poems written on Boston’s sidewalks that are only visible when it rains.

. The likelihood of getting bitten by a human in New York is higher than the likelihood of getting bitten by a shark in the sea. 

                 A bartender made an award-winning cocktail that tastes like money

1.  In 2011, two men paraglided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min, thereby avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent. – Source

 John Newton, most famous for writing “Amazing Grace,” spent the early part of his life as a sailor, then captain, on several slaving ships before converting to a life of evangelical Christianity. Late in life he became an abolitionist, expressing regret that it had taken him so long to do so.

A Nepali farmer was bitten by a cobra and the farmer bit the cobra back. The cobra died but the farmer didn’t

n Italy, six scientists were charged with manslaughter because they didn’t predict an earthquake which killed 309 people.

  . If all the gold in the world was melted, a dice with an edge length of 66 feet would be the result.

Babies are not able to taste salt until they are four months old.

Unlike other cats of prey, the snow leopard is not aggressive towards humans. To this day, there has not been a single known case in which a snow leopard attacked a human.

• Pablo Picasso would often carry around a pistol loaded with blanks. He would fire it at people he found boring or anyone who insulted the Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Cézanne.[22]

 The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.

                    A duel between three people is actually called a truel.

 Actor Leonard Nimoy once gave a cab ride to John F. Kennedy. The future president told the aspiring actor, “Lots of competition in your business, just like in mine. Just remember there’s always room for one more good one.”

                  People did not need passports until World War 1. –

    In 1958 two pilots flew an aircraft for more than two months without landing, refueling by matching speed with a truck driving down a road. Their record has not been broken. 

  The tallest statue in the world is in China, is a statue of Buddha, nearly twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty and almost four times taller than Christ the Redeemer in Brazil. 

 A man named Garry Hoy threw himself through a glass window on the 24th story of the Toronto-Dominion Centre and fell to his death after the window frame gave way. He was attempting to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the glass was unbreakable. He had apparently performed this stunt many times in the past, having previously bounced harmlessly off the glass. –

Anwar Sadat of Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979, the first Arab nation to do so. For this, Sadat won the Nobel Peace prize. Then Egypt was suspended from the Arab League, and Sadat was assassinated. – 

Black soup was a standard meal for Spartan warriors made from boiled pigs’ legs, blood, salt & vinegar – after tasting it one commentator remarked “Now I know why the Spartans do not fear death”

   In 1974, Egyptologists observed Ramesses II’s mummy’s condition was rapidly deteriorating and flew it to Paris for examination. He was issued an Egyptian passport that listed his occupation as “King (deceased)”. The mummy was received outside Paris, with full military honors befitting a king. 

  There is a sausage restaurant in Regensburg, Germany which has been business for 900 years. This means they have been selling sausages well before the Inca Empire existed and are still serving 6,000 sausages a day. –

                  During the Great Fire of New Orleans in 1788, priests refused to allow church bells to be rung as fire alarms because it was Good Friday. As a result, 856 buildings burned during the conflagration

      Gray whales exclusively mate in a threesome.

   Josef Stalin ordered at least 22 assassination attempts on the former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. After his death, a letter to Stalin with the following words was discovered: “Stop sending people to kill me. If you don’t stop sending assassins, I will send one to Moscow and I will certainly not have to send a second one.”

The “Kumbh Mela” in India is not just the biggest festival in Hinduism but also the biggest event in general. The range of estimated attendees is between 30 million to 60 million people. It’s so large that it can even be seen from space.

Due to a compressed air leak, a worker in a subway tunnel under New York City’s East River was blown out of the tunnel, through the mud at the bottom of the river, up through the water, and 25 feet or so into the air. He received no serious injury. –