1Southwest Airlines
In 2011, a Southwest Airlines pilot at Los Angeles International Airport held his plane for 12 minutes, to allow a man to see his dying 2-year-old grandson for one last time.
2. In 1997, Bill Gates invested $150 million in Apple to save it from going bankrupt.
3. Even though the half-life of LSD is only about 30 minutes, its hallucinogenic effects can last up to 18 hours because the molecule gets stuck at an angle within the brain's serotonin receptor and cannot dislodge itself.
4. German and Russian troops had to call a temporary truce in modern Lithuania/Belarus during World War 1 because wolves kept trying to eat them. “Poison, rifle fire, hand grenades and even machine guns were tried to no avail.” Wolves even attacked them in the trenches, making effective battle impossible.
5. Some species of bamboo flower only once in decades, and do so simultaneously across the entire planet, regardless of location or climate. This happens every 40-80 years and it is seen as a curse in East Asia because it is immediately followed by a rat infestation and the spread of famine.
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6Idiom
The Italian version of the idiom, "You can't have your cake and eat it too" is "You want your barrel full of wine and your wife drunk."
7. In 1999, the University of Chicago's annual scavenger hunt included the impossible task of building a working nuclear reactor and one team was able to gather some spare junk from their physics lab and dorm rooms and built a plutonium-producing reactor.
8. When Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him the fabric and wood pieces from the Wright brothers' first airplane.
9. Oreo filling contains no dairy products. Therefore FDA doesn’t allow it to be called ‘cream.’ They were therefore named ‘creme’ instead.
10. During the Vietnam War there were several instances of US troops deliberately killing their fellow solider or their superior officer by tossing a grenade into their tent. This was known as “Fragging”. There were nearly 900 known and suspected fragging cases in Vietnam between 1969 and 1972.
