20 Trivia Tidbits For The Upcoming New Year

We almost had Michael Jackson in “Edward Scissorhands.”

Did you know that Russia owned Alaska for as long time as the United States? In 1867, Russia decided to sell it to the U.S. so they could focus on other matters. However, before this happened, Alaska was governed by Russia as a colony – not a territory or a state! If you've ever seen ‘Terminator 2’, then you're probably familiar with the scenes of the T-1000, played by Robert Patrick, transforming. What you might not know is that the sound of him transforming was actually created using a condom on a microphone! To get started, they put flour and water into a bowl and added Dust-Off spray until it made bubbles and sounded similar to cappuccino maker machine. Lastly, did ancient Rome fall in 476 AD? Although popular belief suggests this date marks Ancient Rome's end, historians would tell you otherwise – it actually fell in 1453 AD, when the city of Constantinople fell.

McDonald’s ran an ill-timed Olympic promotion.

LA Times

The First Woman to Reach Earth’s Highest and Lowest Points

WNTV

Marilyn Monroe was a lady in the streets, and a college boy in the sheets.

Rediff

Corn does a body good, if prepared a certain way.

ResearchGate

Tiny chairs are carved out of soap by an inmate and displayed in popsicle-stick cases.

Interesting Ideas

A football stadium for the Vikings cost over 1 billion dollars.

Fox Sports

Pizza Hut’s All-You-Can-Eat Salad Bar Regrets

Kotaku

The unstable chemical substance chlorine-trifluoride can set concrete on fire.

Gizmodo

Submarine cloaking is so good that two of them collided by chance.

BBC

Sarcasm promotes creative thinking, NOT!

Harvard

There could have been a Michael Jackson “Edward Scissorhands.”

Digital Spy

Canadian scientists brought a horse pox virus back to life, just to make a point.

NCBI

Russia owned Alaska as long as the US has.

Alaska.gov

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