Uncovering the Unknown: 17 Startling Facts That Will Surprise You

İrem Uğur
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1. Dogs know what it means to laugh and they try to make us laugh on purpose!

Because they realize that laughter is positive and they also think that it means play.

2. A cryptocurrency website mistakenly gave a customer $10 million when they should have refunded $100, and it took them 7 months to realize the mistake.

And of course they sued the customer who didn't inform them. The source of the error was that the account number was entered where the amount should have been written...

3. Melvil Dewey, the founder of the Dewey decimal system used in librarianship, was a pervert!

It was revealed that he harassed female librarians with his hands and demanded to see their photographs when he hired them.

4. The famous song from Dumb Ways to Die was written to raise awareness about railroad safety in Australia.

Let's add that this song has led to a 30 percent reduction in railroad accidents.

5. The Japanese had spent 4 years converting one of their largest warships into an aircraft carrier. This ship was sunk by a submarine the first moment it was launched.

The name of the battleship was 'Shinano'.

6. The financial interests of all members of the UK parliament, including gifts and donations, are publicly disclosed in full detail.

All financial transactions are also recorded.

7. An experiment in the 1960s found that male turkeys preferred mating with a stuffed female turkey head to a stuffed female body...

The fact that such an experiment was conducted is shocking in itself.

8. This papier-mâché dinosaur statue in Spain was discovered to have a dead body in its leg!

In 2021, it is thought that the man somehow dropped his phone here and got stuck while trying to retrieve it...

9. The houses built by Frank Lloyd Wright, a famous architect, are famous for leaking roofs.

He even explains it as 'This is what happens when you leave a work of art in the rain'...

10. A portrait by street artist Banksy was sold at auction for £1 million. At the moment of the sale, the system in the frame of the painting was activated and the work was shattered.

Of course, the person who bought the work had to accept this.

11. Bill Gates was addicted to the Minesweeper game, so much so that he had to delete it from his computer.

After his shift, he sometimes played minesweeper on his colleagues' computers...

12. Did you know that Paul McCartney, one of the members of The Beatles, could neither write songs nor read sheet music?

He says that music cannot be understood with dots on paper, that this is not music.

13. Napoleon Bonaparte would leave his letters unread for three weeks. During that time, the problems were solved by themselves.

14. The heartbreaking 'Red Wedding' scene in Game of Thrones was inspired by a real tragedy called the Black Feast.

In 1440, a similar incident took place in Scotland.

15. James Hong became the oldest person to star on the Hollywood red carpet. He accomplished this achievement at the age of 93!

16. Farrokhroo Parsa was the first woman to achieve ministerial status in Iran. Parsa, who was also a physician, was executed after the Islamic Revolution...

The reason for the execution was the allegation of prostitution!

17. Did you know that platypuses have no stomach?

Over millions of years of evolution, their stomachs have disappeared. Even their genetic remains are said to be missing.