15 Gotta-Know Facts That Really Busted Our Bunker
"I have no idea what I am doing," said the young man sitting in front of me. The words had barely escaped his lips when his hands were moving as if he was conducting some sort of musical ensemble with just the sounds his mouth created. "This isn't going to work, you know." He was holding up an object in each hand; a pair of scissors and what appeared to be a piece of wood.
"How is this supposed to work?" I asked as I leaned forward on my chair. I could see he'd already cut a few pieces of the wood, but he hadn't done anything with it yet.
He paused for a second and looked down at his work before answering, "It doesn't. But we can still use this piece of wood."
And suddenly, I gasped. Because somehow, on the wood, letters started to form. We both watched, transfixed, as a list of fifteen facts carved itself onto the wood. It went ...
Deep sea workers only need to be decompressed once after a month long job.
The Las Vegas sky beam attracts so many insects that it’s a new ecosystem.
Rapper Pusha T wrote iconic fast-food jingles.
Real guns were cheaper than props in Lord Of War.
Doctors had a misinterpretation of the human body because they only had access to the cadavers of poor people.
A scapegoat was an actual goat.
The co-founder of Facebook renounced his US citizenship to avoid taxes.
A helicopter pilot completed both the highest altitude and highest unpowered descent.
The bobbit worm is straight out of a nightmare.
We didn’t think infants could feel pain as recently as 986.
Picasso was kind of a dick.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson almost became a stripper.
Landmines helped make a penguin sanctuary.
Wreck-It-Ralph was in development since the ‘80s.
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