1) Until the 1920s, there was a profession called a “knocker-up,” which involved going from client to client tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up. – Source
2) A man named Ryan McKnight spent 470 hours building a giant Lego replica of historic Roman town of Pompeii. –Source
3) The LifeStraw is a powerful, but simple and compact water filtration system which may be the solution to the world’s water emergency. –Source
4) The World’s first genetically-engineered Bioluminescent house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source. – Source
5) Let’s Pizza is the world’s first pizza vending machine. Just select your topping, insert coins and watch your pizza bake. – Source
6) There’s a cruise ship named “The World” where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe. – Source
7) In 2012, a man ordered a TV on Amazon, but got a semi-automatic assault rifle instead. – Source
8) After World War-2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onada didn’t surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn’t know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over. – Source
9) MI6 once hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced instructions on how to make a bomb with a cupcake recipe. – Source
10) There is a wild animal in East Asia called the Raccoon Dog which looks like a raccoon but is actually a dog. – Source
