20 Facts That Really Cored Our Apples

Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein is a descendent of Muhammad, the king of Jordan, and was an extra on Star Trek.

 

Who doesn't love a good list of random yet interesting facts? You're in for a treat, because that's exactly what we've got. Matt Damon wrote the first act of “Good Will Hunting” for a playwriting class, and after being assigned to create the first act of a play, he turned in the 40 page script and said, “Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer.” And, over a century before that, Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker started the world's first terraforming project (in 1850) which has turned Ascension Island - an arid volcanic wasteland - into a self-sustaining ecosystem made completely foreign plants from all over the world. Lastly (and maybe most interestingly), The Powerball drawing on March 30th 2005 produced 110 2nd-prize winners who had all played numbers found inside fortune cookies. Talk about lucky… or maybe not so much considering their winning numbers were obviously meant to be shared! 

2 large, underground tunnels supply NYC with all of its water.

Water Technology

Only 1 space satellite has been obliterated by a meteorite.

Neatorama

The religious Shaker community can only get new members by convincing outsiders.

Boston

The most dangerous road on Earth is the Road of Death that connects the Amazon Rainforest to La Paz, Bolivia.

La Paz Life

The brain sends the signal to cause the body to vomit.

AAPM

Jesus doesn’t want anyone with Celiac disease.

Time

King Abdullah II of Jordan

Who2

110 people won 2nd prize on the Powerball by playing fortune cookie numbers.

NY Times

Charles Darwin

BBC

“Good Will Hunting” started as a writing assignment.

Boston Magazine

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