Facty Facts

Hello ladies and gents time to get our nerd on and thats some




1. More than 1,000,000 Euros are thrown into the Trevi fountain every year. The money is used to subsidize a supermarket for the needy.

2. London and NYC have “buildings” which are actually facades hiding subway ventilation/maintenance systems.

3. When she was the First Lady, Barbara Bush called the Simpsons “the dumbest thing I had ever seen”. She received a letter from Marge Simpson which moved her so much, she wrote back apologizing.

4. When Britain changed the packaging for Tylenol to blister packs instead of bottles, suicide deaths from Tylenol overdoses declined by 43 percent. Anyone who wanted 50 pills would have to push out the pills one by one but pills in bottles can be easily dumped out and swallowed.

5. A 9000 member indigenous tribe in Guyana is fighting illegal logging of their land by filming the activity with a drone they built by watching DIY videos on YouTube and taking the footage to the Guyanese government.

 6.Carrie Fisher told her fans: “No matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in the moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”

7. The city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades.

8. Chris Columbus was originally set to direct National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation but dropped out after difficult meetings with star Chevy Chase. Instead, Columbus made Home Alone; the highest grossing Christmas film of all time.

9. The New Zealand town of Brightwater had 5 electric street lights in 1911 powered by a hydroelectric generator which was auto-controlled by a flock of chickens. At night, the chickens would go inside their coop and their weight would close an electric circuit, turning on the street lights.

10. There was a 20 year patent on minigames during loading screens that recently expired last year. This is why all loading screens aren’t interactive and usually only contain flavor or lore text.

And that ladies and gents is all we have today as always have a chilled day from the Viking



Well i hoped you learnt somthing today and as always have a chilled day from the Viking.

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