WORLD OLDEST MUMMY (Not from Egypt) | Daily Dose of Facts #1
Channel: World of Facts
Date: 2021-04-17

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Elizebeth Smith Friedman, America’s first female cryptanalyst, worked as a code breaker who successfully broke up a Nazi spy ring across South America during the 1940s. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover took credit for her work until reports were declassified in 2008.

 Source: https://href.li/?https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-pbs-film-tells-story-wwii-codebreaker-elizabeth-friedman-180976759/

2. Payless once opened a fake luxury store called “Palessi” and invited influencers to see how much people would pay for $20 shoes. Top offer: $640. A markup of 1800%

Source: https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/payless-opened-a-fake-luxury-store-palessi-to-see-how-much-people-would-pay-for-20-shoes/amp/

3. Worlds oldest mummies are not from Egypt. They are from the Chincorro people of the Atacama Desert, present day Chile, dating back to 5000 BC, nearly 2000 years before the Egyptians

Source: https://href.li/?https://kslnewsradio.com/1904916/surprise-the-worlds-oldest-mummies-are-not-in-egypt/amp/

4. In 2015, a plane made an emergency landing after the crew received an indication of smoke in the cargo hold. It turns out to be caused by the 2,186 sheep farting onboard

Source: https://href.li/?https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/11/03/farting-sheep-cause-plane_n_8463554.html

5. the word “mile” originally comes from the Latin phrase “milia passuum” which means “1000 paces” as paces was the way Romans measured distances

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6. the human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive

Source: https://href.li/?https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32090918

7. F1 teams don’t own their tires, and at the end of each race teams have to return the tires to Pirelli. Even used tires must be returned to prevent industrial espionage

Source: https://href.li/?https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2018-formula-1-pirelli-tire-management/?utm_source=reddit.com

8.  in 2014, New York City had $16 Million in unpaid parking tickets from foreign diplomats. The largest offender was Egypt, with about $1.9 Million. Diplomatic immunity is the main reason that those tickets remained outstanding 

Source: https://href.li/?https://time.com/3421587/diplomats-parking-tickets-new-york/?utm_source=reddit.com

9. eight years after JFK’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy avoided the public unveiling of their White House portraits, but the Nixons graciously agreed to a secret, private tour for her and her kids. It was her only return visit
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10. An 11 year old girl could not afford running shoes, so she wrapped her feet in tape and drew a Nike logo on it. She won several gold medals in local competitions

Source: https://href.li/?https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/runner-with-homemade-nike-given-new-shoes

11. Industrial designer Sara Little Turnbull was hired in 1958 by 3M to design a new bra cup. She ended up designing the N95 respirator.

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/remembering-sara-little-turnbull-whose-bra-cup-design-became-the-n95-mask/ar-BB14t7RX

12. after Universidad del Mar was closed by Chilean government due to major financial irregularities, artist Papas Fritas managed to enter its vault and burn tuition contracts amounting to $500 million, making difficult to prove students owed the university this money

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/23/chile-student-loan-debts-fried-potatoes

13. USS New York, a ship in the US Navy forged partially from steel that was salvaged from the World Trade Center after it was destroyed in 9/11. The ship's motto is "Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_York_(LPD-21)

14. 1921 a Danish geologist discovered a tiny island on the northern coast of Greenland and named it "Kaffeklubben Island" after an informal academic club held at the Copenhagen Mineralogical Museum. He didn't know that he had just named the northernmost point of land on Earth after a coffee club

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffeklubben_Island

15. the “Great Depression” did not originally refer to 1929, but instead to an earlier depression in 1873, later renamed the “Long Depression”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

16. John II of France, who was captured by the English, in the Hundred Years War, and held hostage in London. An exchange of hostages occurred, with his son, Louis, taking his place. When John II was informed that Louis had escaped from captivity, he voluntarily returned to England as a hostage.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_II_of_France