Eric Hoffer was a writer and philosopher, who went blind from age 7 to 15. He was so afraid he would go blind again that he spent his life reading, studying and writing everything he could before he lost his sight again (which he never did).
Jews are often associated as scheming merchants who love money because in the Middle Ages Christians were forbidden to lend out money with interest, Jews were not.
Students as young as six must use a 2,500-foot rickety bamboo ladder to attend school in a Chinese Southwest Sichuan Province.
The band Falls Out Boy apologized to college football fans after ESPN played their song “Centuries” 45 times during all three games of the 2014 College Football Playoffs.
In 2016 a 91-year-old woman filled out a crossword that turned out to be $116k artwork in a German museum.
In 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an order making beer an alcoholic drink. The law went into effect on Jan 1st, 2013. Before this, any drink under 10% alcohol was considered a soft drink.
Japan has blue traffic lights in some areas because historically the Japanese used the same word for green and blue.
Vincent Van Gogh didn’t start to paint until the age of 28 and only started drawing at the age of 26. In the 9 years, until his death at 37, he painted over 800 paintings.
London black cab drivers must first pass The Knowledge, a multi-sequence oral exam requiring memorization of all 25,000 street names, landmarks, and points-of-interest in a 6-mile radius from London center.
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