In an early draft of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones carried brass knuckles instead of a bull whip.
Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower, enjoyed a successful career as an architect despite having dyslexia and a paralyzing fear of heights.
The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones before construction could begin.
The lion used in the original MGM movie logo killed its trainer and two assistants the day after the logo was filmed.
Sesame seeds were so prized during the Middle Ages that in some parts of the world they were worth their weight in gold.
Coal miners have an increased probability of fathering twins.
The space shuttle Challenger's "black box" was found on a Florida beach by a Norwegian dentist.
Alligator skin is not affected by microwave radiation.
10 comments:
I'll never view that lion in the same way again!
I didn't know any of those things!
I did not know any of these things and believe them all. Our family however is not a very good example of the coal miner's twins. My grandfather was a coal miner as were all his brothers and none had any twins. At least none that we know of. In those coal mining communities medical help wasn't available and lots of newborns died.
I knew about Eiffel's acrophobia but none of the rest. Thanks!!!!!
It makes you wonder how they gathered all the facts ... whoever "they" are ... especially the one about the Coal Miners.
How do you think they found out that radiation doesn't affect alligator skin?
Do you think the kids at Burger King were making an "alligator whopper with cheese" in the microwave and discovered this little known fact by accident?
I wouldn't doubt it...
Cor! Did that lion really do that?
Interesting list.
Elly comes from a long line of miners, looking back over the generations there is not a twin to be found anywhere.
Like Joey, I'll shudder ever when I see that lion now.
I didn't know any of those things. That's amazing that the Challenger black box was found on a beach. Just a few feet over and it would have been in the ocean.
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