A world of meaningless facts

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Eyes like a dragonfly

If we had eyes like a dragonfly, we wouldn’t enjoy watching movies at the cinema, because each frame of the filmstrip would be seen as a separate slide.

The radiator from a Fort T could be used in an airplane

In October 1914, H. Dennis Cutler made his first aerial reconnaissance over German-occupied East Africa in search of the German warship HMS Konigsberg. However, the radiator in the aircraft broke down and was forced to land – unfortunately there were no spare parts, but an old Fort T 100 km away in Mombasa had a radiator that could be used after some adaptation. He then found HMS Koningsberg in the Rufiji River.

Van Halen hate M’n’M’s

When Van Halen wrote contracts, one of their requirements was a bowl of M&M’s with the brown ones removed. If they found a brown M&M in the bowl, they knew a breach of contract was likely to follow.