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“In the 2010 film The Social Network, in the initial meeting between Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin and Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Parker buys the table a few rounds of the drink. In real life, Zuckerberg never had an appletini until he attended the film’s premiere. After seeing the film, Zuckerberg made the appletini Facebook’s official drink.”
“The Queen woke when he disturbed a curtain, after which he sat on the edge of her bed talking to her for about ten minutes. She phoned twice for police but none came. Fagan then asked for some cigarettes, which were brought by a maid.”
“In January 1985, two armed robbers broke into Drescher and Jacobson’s Los Angeles apartment. While one ransacked their home, the other raped Drescher and her friend at gunpoint. Jacobson was also physically attacked, tied up, and forced to witness the entire ordeal.”
“In GPS technology, the phrasing “COCOM Limits” is also used to refer to a limit placed to GPS tracking devices that should disable tracking when the device realizes itself to be moving faster than 1,000 knots (1,900 km/h; 1,200 mph) at an altitude higher than 60,000 feet (18,000 m). This was intended to avoid the use of GPS in intercontinental ballistic missile-like applications.”
— If your mobile moves faster than 1,200 MPH the GPS will shut off because it thinks you’re a missile. (Via Wikipedia)
(via david)
“Mary Toft, also spelled Tofts, was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.”
— Mary Toft on Wikipedia
“The story goes that the city of Bielefeld (population 330,000) in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia does not actually exist. … Even after 17 years, however, the mayor’s office receives phone calls and e-mails each day which doubt the existence of the city.”
— Bielefeld Conspiracy on Wikipedia
“Diana, Princess of Wales admitted that she had an affair with her riding instructor, James Hewitt, between 1987 and 1992. As she was then the wife of the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne, this fitted the definition of high treason,”
— High treason in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia
“Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963 in Paddington, London, England), known simply as Seal”
— Seal (musician) on Wikipedia
