Fascinating Facts and Trivia

If you have the feeling you’ve experienced an event before in real life, call it déjà vu.

If you feel like you’ve previously experienced an event in a dream instead, there’s a different term for it: déjà rêvé.

During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes."

The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.

In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block.'"

It contained a total of zero words.

Volvo gave away the 1962 patent for their revolutionary three-point seat belt for free, in order to save lives.

It would take 19 minutes to fall from the North Pole to the Earth’s core.

Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.

The tongue is the only muscle in one’s body that is attached from one end.

An Italian banker, Gilberto Baschiera is considered a modern-day Robin Hood.

Over the course of 7 years, he secretly diverted 1 million euros to poorer clients from the wealthy ones so they could qualify for loans.

He made no profit and avoided jail in 2018 due to a plea bargain.

In 2009, Stephen Hawking held a reception for time travelers, but didn’t publicize it until after.

This way, only those who could time travel would be able to attend.

Nobody else attended.

Spooky