Well I didn't know that!

https://weirdfactss.com/2014/11/the...rn-your-ashes-into-a-diamond-for-your-family/​

Everyone loves diamonds, but one company has gone as far as making diamonds from dead people’s ashes! They enabled people to ‘wear’ their loved ones wherever they go, after their death of course. This rather unsettling idea has originated from a Swiss company called Algordanza.
 

horseless carriage said:
Jewish slaves didn't build the pyramids.
The Egyptians did, the myth of the slaves building pyramids is only the stuff of tabloids and Hollywood. Jews were not even around at the time of the pyramid construction.

Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian.
She was Greek.

Christopher Columbus didn't discover America.
Columbus struck land in the Caribbean and in Central and South America, but he never set foot on North America. Nonetheless, the U.S. celebrates Columbus Day every year.

The Pilgrims didn't host the first Thanksgiving.
Spaniards in Florida celebrated a similar event in 1565, well before the Pilgrims in 1621. Indeed, historians don't know if the legendary 1621 dinner even happened.

Marie Antoinette didn't say: "Let them eat cake."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in his novel, "Confessions," that a great princess spoke these inconsiderate words. Many assumed he was referring to the famous Marie Antoinette, however, there is no evidence to support this claim.

Paul Revere never shouted: "The British are Coming."
Paul Revere needed to keep his knowledge of the Brits' arrival on the down-low. British troops had already camped out across the Massachusetts countryside. Also, the colonists still considered themselves British. If anything, Paul Revere probably told people on a need-to-know basis about the regulars, the colonists' term for British soldiers.
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I knew about Cleopatra and Paul Revere. :giggle:
 
RadishRose said:

https://weirdfactss.com/2014/11/the...rn-your-ashes-into-a-diamond-for-your-family/​

Everyone loves diamonds, but one company has gone as far as making diamonds from dead people’s ashes! They enabled people to ‘wear’ their loved ones wherever they go, after their death of course. This rather unsettling idea has originated from a Swiss company called Algordanza.
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this is actually been a 'thing'' for quite a few years now. My daughter said many years ago that she would have my ashes made into diamond jewellery..I think she's changed her mind now. I must ask her :D
 

Japanese people who arrived in Hawaii straight from Japan were called Nisei by the locals. Many of them came in their Kimonos and Yukata, and in an effort to fit in with everyone else living in Hawaii, they cobbled the fabric from their kimonos into loose fitting shirts. Local tailors loved the bright colors and designs and the relaxed fit, and started making the shirts that became popularly known as “Hawaiian Shirts” and were a huge fashion trend in 40s and 50s.
 
Giraffes have the highest normal blood pressure of any living thing - 300/180.
It has to be high to pump blood to their brain - 6 feet from their heart.
And they are equipped with natural compression socks on their necks and legs in the form of very tight skin. This keeps blood moving back up to the heart instead of pooling in their legs.
 
If you point your car keys to your head, it increases the remote's signal range. This works by using your brain to act as a radio transmitter.
 
While Apple was building a huge data center in the middle of North Carolina, they wanted to occupy the area of a couple that lived there for 34 years. When the couple refused to leave, Apple paid them $1.7 million dollars for their land.
 
People who post their fitness routine on Facebook are more likely to have psychological problems.
 
House flies have taste receptors in their feet. That's why they'll sit on garbage, food, or feces before deciding if they want to eat it.
And flies can only eat liquid. To eat solid food, they first vomit an enzyme that liquefies each bite before sucking it up with their built-in feeding tube.
 
ohioboy said:
Anyone know these already?

Adolph Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Robert Frost won the Pulitzer prize for Poetry 4 times, the most of anyone. Frost lived in Amherst, MA for some time, home of you know who?? :)
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Adolph Hitler was TIME Magazine's Man of the Year for 1938.
 
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