Nature, humanity, and animals around the world always contain surprising truths that leave us in awe.
1. In 1936, American author Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000-word novel titled Gadsby without using the letter “e” – the most frequently used letter in English. This astonishing fact seems almost unbelievable and has left many people surprised and impressed.
2. A woman named Aimee Davidson spent $10,000 to buy an invisible artwork titled “Fresh Air.” This is part of a project by James Franco and other artists called the Museum of Non-Visible Art. According to this, these special artworks, though invisible, can still be sold to art lovers.
3. An unbelievable yet fascinating fact is that Cleopatra, the famous Queen of Egypt, was Greek.
4. A strange yet unbelievable fact is that the entire network of the Internet weighs about as much as a strawberry.
5. There are some pairs of twins with different fathers in the world. These cases are extremely rare. Twin pairs with different fathers are born when the mother has relations with two men at the right time of ovulation and are only discovered through DNA testing.
6. The voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life. Specifically, Wayne Allwine voiced Mickey Mouse, and Russi Taylor voiced Minnie Mouse. Their marriage surprised and impressed many.
7. In 1995, Sonny Graham received a heart transplant from Terry Cottle – a man who committed suicide at the age of 33. After receiving the donor heart, Graham fell in love with and married Cottle’s widow. Oddly enough, 12 years after the successful heart transplant, Graham (then 69 years old) committed suicide using a handgun – the same method Cottle used to end his life.
8. One day before his execution, death row inmate Troy Leon Gregg successfully escaped with three other inmates. However, this inmate was discovered beaten to death by James C. “Butch” Horne Jr. at a bar on July 29, 1980 – the exact date he was scheduled for execution. Three days later, the other three escaped inmates were recaptured.
9. An episode of “Peppa Pig” was banned in Australia for teaching children not to fear spiders: What seemed to be harmless content led to an episode of the children’s cartoon “Peppa Pig” being banned in Australia after many parents complained that the show misled children by suggesting that spiders were not scary. In reality, Australia has many species of spiders that are far more dangerous than those in Europe and America, so not teaching children to be cautious around spiders could lead to serious consequences.
10. Male orangutans may be attracted to women with red hair: Male orangutans have an interesting trait where they are sometimes attracted not only to female orangutans but also to women with red hair (similar to the gibbon species). For example, a male orangutan named Hsing Hsing from an Australian zoo once stole a photo of famous actress Nicole Kidman from a magazine and took it back to his enclosure because he was so fond of her.
11. Rainbows can appear at night: This rare phenomenon is also known as a “moonbow” and, as the name suggests, this rainbow is produced by the light of the Moon, not the Sun. It is known that the light of a moonbow is dimmer than that of a typical rainbow. Moonbows can be seen in places near waterfalls or during rain under certain conditions: the full moon should not be too high in the sky, and the sky must be dark. The size of a moonbow is quite similar to that of a regular rainbow.
12. Marilyn Monroe had a higher IQ than Albert Einstein: Reports suggest that Marilyn Monroe had an IQ ranging from 163 to 168, while Albert Einstein’s IQ was 160. While this is difficult to prove, historical documents indicate that this beautiful actress was indeed an intelligent woman. Another interesting fact is that Albert Einstein once gifted her a signed photograph of himself.
13. Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb: Although Thomas Edison is often associated with achievements related to the light bulb, this is technically inaccurate as many people actually pioneered the invention of the light bulb before him. Figures like Joseph Swan, Humphrey Davy, and JW Starr were the true inventors of the light bulb, while Edison merely improved their designs and made them more practical.
