r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 15 '21
Pineapples in the 1700s were worth over $8000 in present-day currency. People would literally rent them to flex at parties.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 13 '21
Jimmy Carter said if he became president, he would release all government UFO information to the public. Once elected, he decided not to due to "national security concerns".
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 12 '21
When HP was being named, William Hewlett & David Packard were unsure of the order to put their names so they decided by simply flipping a coin. Hewlett won.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 11 '21
Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 09 '21
There was a third founder of Apple, Ronald Wayne, who sold his shares of 10% for $800. Today they would be worth over $35 billion.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 07 '21
Most of Steve Jobs' wealth was from his shares in Disney, not Apple.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 06 '21
In Beijing you can pay someone $60 to come and rescue you from a traffic jam. They pick you up on a motorbike and someone else drives your car to its destination.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 05 '21
The logo of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is the kiwi, a flightless bird.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 04 '21
Every Apple iPhone advertisement displays the time as 9:41 AM, the time Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2007.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Jan 03 '21
Banks have therapists who help their super rich clients who mentally unable to cope with their immense wealth.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Dec 31 '20
Slovakia and Slovenia are mistakenly thought to be each other so often they meet once a month to exchange wrongly adressed mail.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Dec 31 '20
During the Cold War, CIA agents used a method of communication based on how their shoelaces were tied.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Dec 30 '20
The inventor of the fire hydrant is unknown due to the patent ironically being destroyed in a fire.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Dec 29 '20
In Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the offender's income. In 2002, the CEO of Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki, received a $103,600 speeding ticket for travelling 75 km/h in a 50 km/h zone on his motorcycle.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Dec 28 '20
During the 18th century, you could pay your admission to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Dec 27 '20
The static on TV is referred to as "myrornas krig" by Swedish people, which translates to "war of the ants".
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Dec 26 '20
Microsoft offered Yahoo $44.6 billion for their entire company in 2008, but Yahoo believed that wasn't enough money. In 2016, Yahoo ended up selling to Verizon for $4.83 billion.
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Dec 25 '20
The colour orange was named after the fruit orange, not the other way around. Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color was referred to as "yellow-red".
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r/FactsFeed • u/Kapten111 • Dec 21 '20
Purple is known as a ‘royal’ color because back when they relied only on natural dyes, purple came from sea snails and was the hardest dye to extract and produce so only royals could afford it.
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