Facts

While this isn’t a huge surprise, it’s worth mentioning that women of Ancient Rome were expected to stay home and work on raising a family. Some wealthy women were able to attempt to get an education, and others were even able to work for a business. Sadly, the majority of business work that women had to do was manage slaves.

Wind is silent. It doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object.

"After the 2011 Japanese nuclear plant in Fukushima was disabled by an earthquake tsunami double whammy, elderly Japanese people volunteered to do repairs to save young people from radiation exposure."

HBO ordered 13 episodes of an animated Austin Powers series in 1999, but it was mysteriously shelved.

"There are 14 mountains over the height of 8000 metres. All of them are in Asia."

"Gargoyles were invented because many ancient Europeans were illiterate and they needed a physical representation of hell to scare them into going to church."

There was a Samurai who was actually worried about how obsolete their system had become and now that Samurais were no longer needed in Japan.

"There is an Australian pine growing out of an old railroad bridge in the Florida Keys named Fred the Tree. Fred survives with salt spray, lots of sunshine, and no apparent soil. Fred even withstood Hurricane Irma!"

A casino is a place where everyone can try their luck and experience as well as the feeling of excitement.

There were a handful of famous female pirates as well. Anne Bonny is possibly the most famous of them all. Both her and Mary Read were the only two women to be convicted of piracy during the ‘Golden Age of Piracy.’

"In Alien (1979) a picture of Jonesy, the ship’s cat, as a kitten is seen on a computer terminal in the Nostromo."