Daily Facts
- Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
- Eugene Shoemaker is the only person whose ashes have been buried on any celestial body outside Earth.
- That Earth has had 5 mass extinctions, and we are currently in the 6th.
- The first metered taxi was introduced in 1907.
- According to the Guinness World Records, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is the second-most popular song in the English language, following "Happy Birthday to You" and followed by "Auld Lang Syne".
- France was still executing people by guillotine when the first Star Wars movie came out.
- In 1916 the Statue of Liberty was damaged due to an explosion from World War 1. The torch sustained damage and was closed to the public and has not been open since.
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) owns 1.5% of the world’s Bitcoins.
- In 1750’s cats came from Europe to America as pest controllers.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
- The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
- McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users”.
- Bob Marley was buried with a stalk of marijuana, his red Gibson Les Paul guitar, and a Bible.
- Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
- Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have a ball after I’m gone".
- Not all moons are dry and dusty like ours. Jupiter's Europa has a liquid ocean under an icy crust.
- In 1889, the Queen of Italy, Margherita Savoy, ordered the first pizza delivery.
