Interesting Facts:

In 1958, a man decided to name his son “Winner”. Three years later, he had another son who he named “Loser”. “Winner” became a hardened criminal and “Loser” became a detective.

A Japanese Village was spared being destroyed during the 2011 tsunami by its huge seawall, a wall that its previous mayor had been harshly criticized for building. 

Prior to their music careers, Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten would often perform Alice Cooper covers on the streets for money. People would pay them to stop. 

In 2013, Kanye West’s “Yeezus” was voted both “Most Overrated Album” and “Most Underrated Album” by Pitchfork readers.

J.R.R Tolkien got the name for Samwise Gamgee from a doctor called Joseph Sampson Gamgee, the inventor of the ‘Gamgee tissue’, an absorbent gauze surgical dressing made from cotton wool. Hence, Tolkien named Samwise’s wife in The Lord of the Rings books Rosie Cotton.

Physicist Richard Feynman encouraged his sister Joan to study the universe, despite their mother’s belief that women were incapable of fully understanding science. Joan went on to become an astrophysicist. 

An American Indian woman left behind during an evacuation in 1835 lived alone on a remote island off the coast of California for 18 years, inspiring the children’s novel “Island of the Blue Dolphins.”

The Great Smog of London in 1952 was caused by using coal as the main source of heat and was responsible for the deaths of around 12,000 individuals.