October 19th is “Evaluate Your Life Day” – a day to think about your situation in life & wonder how it could be improved. Be sure to weigh the good and bad!
100 Mind-Blowing Bad Facts
In season 5 of Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul (Jesse) was paid $150,000 per episode.
Cucumber can cure bad breath. A slice pressed to the roof of your mouth for 30 seconds with your tongue allows the phytochemicals to kill the problematic bacteria.
Pistanthrophobia is a common fear of trusting people due to past experiences with relationships gone bad.
When you have to make a choice, and every choice is a bad one, it’s called a zugzwang.
One of Hitler’s favourite tunes to whistle was the very popular “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
Evangeline Lilly is a notoriously bad driver. She has been in at least 8 car accidents, and none of them were with another car.
Murder rates rise in summer. Ever feel angry or in a bad mood when the weather is hot? Well, you’re not alone. Violent crime goes up in hotter weather, and in the US, murder rates reportedly rose by 2.7 per cent over the summer.
Cucumber slices can fight bad breath. Here’s a weird fact you might know: cucumbers can fight bad breath! If you don’t have a mint on hand, use a slice of cucumber!
Black cats are good luck in Britain and Japan. Black cats may have been universally seen as bad luck, but that isn’t the case for Great Britain and Japan. New brides are given black cats to bless their marriage in the English Midlands. In Japan, black cats are a symbol of good luck for single women.
Male bees can only mate once. After mating with a female, the male bee’s endophallus is removed. Its abdomen also rips open and results in the male bee’s death. Now that’s what we call a bad date.
A tarantula can survive two years without food. Tarantulas can go much longer without food compared to water. So long as there is water available, a tarantula will not suffer any bad side effects from starvation.
Brushing your teeth too hard is bad for you. Doing so can wear down the enamel. This would then make your teeth sensitive to hot and cold foods.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th”. Friday the 13th may just be another day for you, but some cultures are very wary of this number for its supposed bad luck.
Coffee beans can cure bad breath. Coffee beans are a known odour neutraliser. Perfume shops even make customers sniff coffee beans when trying different fragrances. However, you must chew them if you’re going for deodorizing – drinking coffee can worsen your breath through bacteria. Science, right?
Bad feelings are good for you. Nobody wants to feel sad, afraid, or hurt, but suppressing these negative emotions can hamper us psychologically. One’s mental health should acknowledge and know how to process negative feelings.
The oldest customer service complaint was from 4,000 years ago. The world’s first customer complaint was found on a clay cuneiform tablet in Mesopotamia. It was written by a customer named Nanni who complained of bad copper ingots.
The blue meth in Breaking Bad is rock candy. Yup, they’ve been snorting rocks this whole time, but a confectionery kind: Crystal Sky is cotton candy-flavoured rock candy. It may have been fake drugs, but the cast and crew were still getting a different kind of high from it – they’d eat the sugary mixture to keep them up during shoots.
“Bluetooth” was named after a king. Bluetooth technology was named after King Harald Bluetooth Gormsson. The traditional explanation for his moniker is that Harald had a bad tooth that looked “blue.” In the 10th century, Bluetooth united Denmark and Norway – much like how wireless Bluetooth now joins different devices.
No one knows how Edgar Allan Poe died. If his works were any indicator of who he was as a person, Edgar Allan Poe was a deeply disturbed man. Aside from his macabre writing, a lot of mystery surrounds Edgar Allan Poe. Even his death is unclear. He was last seen in Baltimore’s streets in 1849. He was wearing someone else’s clothes and in bad shape. 4 days later, he died in a hospital. Allegedly, he kept shouting “Reynolds” before his death.
J.D. Salinger drank his urine. Most known for his classic novel, Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger had a reputation for being strange. However, you wouldn’t think it was this bad: According to his daughter, Margaret Salinger, her father would drink his urine and speak in tongues.
In some cultures, left-handedness was considered unlucky or associated with superstitions. For example, it was believed that using your left hand for tasks could bring bad luck.
You’ll more likely remember your dreams better after a bad sleep than a good one. If you sleep poorly and wake up throughout the night, you’re more likely to remember your dreams when you wake up.
Beethoven may have been a musical genius, but he was bad at math—he never learned how to multiply or divide.
Airplane food might not be that bad. During flights, elevation causes dryness and reduces sensitivity. This fact limits the amount passengers can taste while flying.
All those scam emails you get from Nigerian Princes have purposefully bad grammar. At this point, it’s almost certain that every person in the world has received one of these emails, including actual Nigerian royalty. It turns out that there’s a good reason these scams are littered with mistakes in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. This essentially filters out those who are less gullible and simply ignore the emails, while those more likely to be defrauded will ignore the typos and reply!
Millions of hours of TV and movies are watched every day on Netflix. Of course, Netflix is a massively popular company, so it’s not that big of a surprise. The world spends about 164 million hours every day streaming Netflix, which is equivalent to 18,812 years’ worth of TV and movies every 24 hours. Now my binge-watching habits don’t seem so bad!
Bad nominations. Among the nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize are Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini (both 1939) and Joseph Stalin (1945 and 1948). Hitler’s nomination was submitted by a Swedish MP, while Mussolini’s came from an Italian professor. Stalin’s nominations were made by a British MP and a group of Norwegian politicians.
There Are 1.4 Billion $2 Bills Still in Circulation: The first $2 bills were printed in 1862. Although they originally featured Alexander Hamilton, they were later redesigned to feature Thomas Jefferson. The bills are still in circulation – 1.4 billion of them in fact – and are considered to be the rarest currency denomination in the U.S. Some people believed $2 bills were bad luck and would rip off the corners of the bill to “reverse the curse,” making them unusable.
Back in 2019, Microsoft and Google warned that bad AI could potentially harm a business’ brand. Although many companies are eager to implement AI, the fact is that if not done properly, it could exacerbate existing problems or create new ones.