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Film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg was responsible for reviving Walt Disney Studios by producing
some of their biggest hits including The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast
and Aladdin. After which he requested a promotion but was instead abruptly fired. He swore revenge
on the Disney Corporation and founded DreamWorks Studios.
The reason that artificial banana favouring tastes so different to actual bananas is because
artificial banana flavourings are based on a type of banana called Gros Michel bananas,
that were wiped out by a plague in the 1950s. On an island off the south-west coast of Australia
named “Middle Island” there is a large lake that is a bright pink bubblegum colour
called Lake Hillier. A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast
that it boils the water around and creates a flash of light.
Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a brand new beach every day for over
27 years. To determine if a female is suitable for mating
a male giraffe will approach the female and rub up against her backside until she pees.
The male then tastes the urine to determine whether she's in heat or not. What's even
more disturbing is that scientists thought it necessary to give this bizarre ritual a
name, it's called the “Flehmen sequence”. Nintendo was originally a trading card company.
There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as “Pig Beach” which is populated
entirely by swimming pigs. A scientist let a computer program a computer
chip using natural selection. The outcome was an extremely efficient chip, the inner
workings of which were too complex for a human to understand.
A group of women called “The 9 Nanas” kept a secret for decades that not even their
husbands knew about. For 30 years they met at 4am and anonymously paid bills and bought
clothes for people in need. Each care package included a homemade pound cake and a note
that read “Somebody loves you”. Approximately 1 million Euros are thrown into
Rome's Trevi fountain every year. The money is used to subsidise a supermarket for those
in need. As a teenager George R.R. Martin was the first
ever person to buy a ticket to the first ever comic con, held in New York City in 1964.
When we breathe through our nose, we inhale more air from one nostril than the other,
but they swap round every 15 minutes. The mayor of the Alaskan town of Talkeetna
is a cat called Stubbs. This faithful ball of fur has been of the town since 1997.
In 2013 in China, scientists managed to grow a human tooth using nothing but stem cells
taken from urine. In 1969 a musician named Jim Sullivan recorded
an album called “U.F.O” which included unusual lyrics about leaving his family and
being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later without a trace. The only
evidence was his abandoned car found on a desert road.