Daniel Craig was an anonymous stormtrooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Originally, he denied his cameo and claimed he wouldn’t bother being an extra in a movie.
100 Mind-Blowing Extra Facts
Deep snow can sometimes appear blue because the extra layers of snow create a filter for light.
Kesha was an extra in Katy Perry’s music video for “I Kissed a Girl.” Katy had some of her friends in the video – among those, a then-unknown Kesha.
The French have their name for a French kiss. Is there something extra interesting about this kissing fact? The word hasn’t been around for long. In 2014, galocher—meaning to kiss with tongues—was added to the Petit Robert French dictionary.
Humans have jumped farther than horses in the Olympics. The Olympic world record for the longest human long jump is greater than the world record for the longest horse long jump. Mike Powell set the record in 1991 by jumping 8.95 meters, and the horse Extra Dry set the record in 1900 by jumping 6.10 meters.
Kris Jenner has 13 grandchildren. (Extra points if you can list them in order of age.) Kourtney Kardashian has four children, Mason, 14, Penelope, 11, Reign, 9, Rocky, 0. Kim has four, North, 10, Saint, 8, Chicago, 6 and Psalm, 4. Rob has one, Dream, 7. Khloé has two, True, 5, and Tatum, 1. Kylie has two, Stormi, 6, and Aire, 2.
Humans have jumped further than horses in the Olympics. The Olympics has been a good measure of humanity’s physical limits and capabilities. You’d be surprised that the world record for the longest human long jump is even greater than the record for the longest long jump done by a horse. When Mike Powell jumped 8.95 meters, he beat the record of Extra Dry who jumped at 6.10 meters.
Around 8% of the world’s population has an extra rib. This is known as the cervical rib and it comes from the seventh cervical vertebra. This is considered a congenital abnormality that is located above the normal first rib. There is a 1 in 500 chance that a person will be born with this condition.
Cows cannot climb downstairs. This is because they cannot easily see the ground right after their feet. Their knees and hips also make it difficult for them to move at a downward angle. Additionally, all their extra weight would leave them off-balanced and possibly fall over.
A man once wore 60 shirts and 9 pairs of jeans to the airport to avoid extra fees. On a flight from China to Africa, a man wore 60 shirts and nine pairs of jeans because he didn’t want to pay for extra baggage. He wore it throughout an 11-and-a-half-hour flight.
Monica and Joey were supposed to be the main F.R.I.E.N.D.S. romance. The ‘90s hit show had fans swooning over the romance arcs, but the pairings that ended up together weren’t the original plan. Originally, Monica and Joey were supposed to be the endgame. Joey was also supposed to be extra sleazy, even hitting on Rachel, Monica, and Phoebe. However, Matt LeBlanc suggested toning down Joey’s character to only flirting with girls outside the main cast. This made Joey way more likeable and gave way to the romances that ended up developing through the course of the series.
Some people have an extra bone in their knee. The fabella is found at the back of the knee in some people. Also known as a sesamoid bone, it grows in the tendon of a muscle.
The Ancient Greeks believed that left-handed people were extra special, and they even thought they were super lucky!
They get their name because they have enlarged throats and extra large voice boxes which allow them to howl.
A company in Japan awards non-smokers an extra six days of paid leave each year. It was brought to the marketing firm’s attention that employees who went for smoke breaks had more than 15 minutes of extra time away from their desks each day. Instead of penalising smokers, they came up with a creative incentive to quit smoking while keeping their non-smoking employees happy in the process!
The Titanic wreckage was discovered during a top-secret mission to search for sunken nuclear submarines. Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic wreckage, originally went to the US Navy to request funding to develop an advanced robotic submersible that would allow him to search for the wreckage. The navy liked his idea but decided to use it to search for two lost US nuclear submarines. The mission finished early, and Ballard was able to use the extra time to discover the lost ship.
It turns out that you don’t need to drink six to eight cups of water per day. Water is without a doubt one of the most important things on our planet, and since around the 1940s, it’s been popularly believed that you should drink about 84 ounces (2.5 litres) of the stuff every day to stay healthy. Researchers have since delved deeper into the issue and concluded that you don’t need to drink anywhere near that much, as you get a lot of water from the food you eat. Instead, you’re merely advised to drink when you’re thirsty and drink extra on particularly hot days.
The Pentagon has twice the number of bathrooms it needs. The US Department of Defence’s headquarters was constructed during the time of racial segregation, and as such, an extra set of facilities was created for African American employees. In 1941, before the Pentagon’s construction was complete, President Franklin D. Roosevelt prohibited racial segregation within federal organisations. Not only did the Pentagon end up with twice as many bathrooms as necessary, but twice as many cafeterias too!
How Much Does GPS Cost To Manage and Run? The average person doesn’t know GPS is funded by American taxpayers. Millions of people use GPS for navigation and location tracking each day. In 2020, $1.71 billion was required to fund the core program in the United States. The total budget for GPS tends to trend upward as the system is improved and updated. For 2021, the budget requested to run the GPS program and infrastructure is over $1.8 billion. Currently, the Department of Defence manages GPS as a whole. Extra funding is provided by the Department of Transportation for civilian upgrades to the system. US law ensures that GPS is available free of cost for direct users with no plans to privatize GPS in the future.
We can thank Albert Einstein for a lot of our current understanding of the physics of time. Rather than viewing time as a set order, he proved that it’s relative. For example, according to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, there’s an inverse relationship between your speed and the speed of time. The faster you move, the slower time moves. This is why someone blasting through space will age slower than the people still hanging out on Earth: Astronaut Scott Kelly was born several minutes after his twin brother, Mark, but after Scott spent 340 days living on the International Space Station, he returned to Earth around an extra 5 milliseconds younger than his “big” brother. Had Scott been travelling at a speed close to the speed of light, that age difference would have become much more pronounced.
At the same time, Caesar asked the astronomer Sosigenes to help reform the calendar. Most years were set at 365 days, but to make up for the fact that the Earth’s revolution around the sun doesn’t take exactly 365 days, leap years were implemented. Every four years the month of February was given an extra day to make up for what is a sort of rounding error in the calendar.
But Sosigenes made a bit of a miscalculation, so the calendar continued to be a little off. He thought a year lasted 365.25 days. It’s around 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds, equivalent to about 365.242 days. This tiny error had some pretty big consequences: By 1577, the Julian calendar was off by 10 days, meaning key Christian holidays were being celebrated on incorrect dates. Pope Gregory XIII took issue with this and established a commission to get the calendar back on track. In 1582, the Gregorian calendar was created. Rather than having an extra day every four years without exception, years that are divisible by 100—like 1700 or 1900—skip leap year. Unless the year is also divisible by 400, like the year 2000, in which case the Leap Year is back on! Even this system isn’t perfect, though: It has an error of one day in 3236 years.
Daylight saving time does more than make people lose an hour of sleep. It can have some pretty concerning health effects. Studies have linked daylight saving time with an uptick in heart attacks, car crashes, and mining injuries. The extra hour of daylight is good for koalas, though: Researchers found that koala-car collisions went down by up to 11 per cent during daylight saving time.
It costs more than a cent to make a cent: In the US, it costs roughly 2 cents to make a 1-cent coin. For a nickel (5 cents), it’s 7.5 cents. These extra costs quickly add up. In 2018 (when the most recent figures were available), it’s estimated that cent production cost the US taxpayer an extra $85.5 million and nickel production an extra $33.5 million.
Most Americans Hoard Their Spare Change: One recent survey by MyBankTracker.com found that 55.5% of people do nothing with the loose change they’ve accumulated. Interestingly, 60.3% of the male respondents said they were more likely to leave their extra coins untouched compared to 51% of the female respondents. Another survey from Coinstar says people estimate they’ve got an average of $113 worth of coins in and around their homes.