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When Thomas Edison was confined to a wheelchair in the last years of his life, his friend Henry Ford bought one too, so that they could have wheelchair races.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE -
Bill Gates has sold most of his Microsoft shares and entrusts the investment of most of his money to one man, Michael Larson of Cascade Investment.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Elon Musk proposed his second wife after 10 days together. They divorced 2 years later, remarried the following year, filed for divorce again, withdrew the filing, re-filed for divorce and finally followed through with it.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Bumblebees were originally called Humblebees until about the mid 20th Century.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The U.S. Navy has 3,700 aircraft, making it the second largest air force in the world.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are more than 40 airports in Antarctica.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Leonardo Da Vinci was the first person to observe the curvature of the human spine. Until then everyone had assumed that it was straight.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The brightest things in the universe are quasars, which can be 429 trillion times brighter than our sun.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The term influenza comes from the Italian word meaning “influence”, an allusion to the influence the stars were once believed to have on our health.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Chinese are the single biggest source of global tourism income.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In India, where the Taj Mahal and Delhi's Lodhi Gardens and Purana Qila fort have been badly affected,graffitists risk up to 1 lakh (about £970) in fines and up to two years in jail.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A study suggests that owning a dog reduces the likelihood of depression by 3 times in patients with HIV, which can result in improved patient adherence to potentially lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Chinese Government controls the central heating for every home in Beijing.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Within only 2,000 years of humanity's arrival in the New World, indigenous peoples drove to extinction 84 of the Americas' 107 genera of large mammals.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Tokyo is the city with the most millionaires in the world but London has the most multi-millionaires and New York the most billionaires.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Gangster John Gotti had his neighbors' body dissolved in a 55 gallon drum of acid for accidentally running over and killing Gotti's 12-year-old son.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The actor who played young Forrest Gump ended up enlisting in the U.S. Army and going into combat, just like his character.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In the United States, airlines pay a maximum of $3,300 for a lost bag.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The New Zealand badminton team was nicknamed‘the Black Cocks', but had to drop it after complaints.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The name "United Nations" was Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea. He rushed to tell Winston Churchill, who was towelling himself stark naked in his bathroom.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The state of Rio Grande do Sul has only 5% of Brazil's population but provides 70% of its fashion models.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Bird" was originally spelled "brid."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Deliveries by pigeon post during the Second World War were 95% successful.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Skateboards were banned in Norway between 1978 and 1989.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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At 21, Mussolini was homeless and living under a bridge in Switzerland.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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20 minutes spent on the London Underground's Northern Line is as bad for your lungs as smoking a cigarette.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The average English-speaker has about 50,000 words in their mind and finds the right one in 600 milliseconds.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2013, Los Angeles became the first major city in the world to install traffic lights that make automatic adjustments based on car flow, reducing travel time.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Elvis Presley wore a cross, a star of David and the Hebrew letter chai because he didn't want to "miss out on heaven due to a technicality."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Actor Willem Dafoe was expelled from high school for shooting a pornographic film.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
