Fun Fact Found

Fun Fact Found: History

Alexander the Great invented a spying technique still used today. He made his soldiers write letters home, then he intercepted and read to discover who was against him. Off with his head? Maybe...

Fun Fact Found: Facebook

Lauren Michaels, a 23-year-old woman, created a group named "I Need Sex" on Facebook in 2008. She had 35 member is 10 minutes and she attracted many more then and chose some of them to sleep with. Facebook has since removed her page.

Fun Fact Found: Doctor Who

A great mystery to its fans, Doctor Who is our favourite TV series for 50 years. Independent from time and space, Doctor Who can be anywhere, any time. Here are some interesting facts about Doctor Who that you might not know;

• Look at this relation in Doctor Who! David Tennant is married to Georgia Moffett, who played the Doctor’s daughter, Jenny. Georgia is also the real-life daughter of the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison.
• Steven Moffat created The Weeping Angels, and he was inspired by a carved figure in a graveyard that he used to see when he went on family holidays. The graveyard was marked “dangerous”.
• Many episodes of the series were destroyed by the BBC in the 1960s and 70s for mostly saving space. 
• There are some collectors and broadcasters around the world helping to re-build the collection of missing episodes.
• Verity Lambert was the former production assistant of the creator Sydney Newman, and the first woman BBC employed as a producer.
• Bill Nighy and Benedict Cumberbatch turned down the role of The Doctor. Benedict Cumberbatch was offered the role of The Doctor following David Tennant’s tenure. He turned it down because of the high-profile coming with being part of such an enormous franchise. Bill Nighy also turned down the coveted role for the same reason.
• The Daleks’ creator, Terry Nation, originally based the aliens on the Nazis, creating them as the unhearing, unthinking, blanked-out face of authority that will destroy you because it wants to destroy you. 

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• This film is the first studio film and first commercial movie of David Lynch.
• The Elephant Man was not nominated for Best Make-up oscar. Because there were no best makeup category back then. Still, the category added to the Academy Awards, just because this film.
• John Hurt, the Elephant Man, had his makeup constructed from casts made of Joseph Merrick’s body, which has been preserved in the private museum of the Royal London Hospital.
• The makeup for the elephant man, took about eight hours to apply every day and it took about two hours to remove.
• The events on the film are not totally true, they are mostly fictions.
• Merrick, the elephant man had a peaceful and generally uneventful, if short, life at the hospital indeed.
• John Hurt was a hard smoker and he managed to smoke through this heavy makeup on set.

Fun Fact Found: Human Psychology

It is found that the personality of a person remains stable throughout life. There are three aspects that does not change throughout life; anxiety levels, friendliness and eagerness for novel experiences. Our roles in the society can change, our habits can change, our style of life can change but our basic personality does not, definitely!

Fun Fact Found: Demi Moore

We are wondering how she still keep that young! Demi Moore is a great mystery to all! Here are some interesting facts about Demi Moore that you might not know;

• Demi Moore's real name is Demetria Guynes.
• The first job she had was as a bill collector.
• In 1991, when she was seven months pregnant, she posed nude for Vanity Fair Magazine cover.
• She had many plastic surgeries to remove fat on some parts of her body; including her hips, tummy and behind and to enlarge her breasts on the other side.
• She is a keen doll collector.
• She hired the famous photographer Mario Testino to take some naked photos of her during her 41st birthday.

Fun Fact Found: Children

Wealthy families in ancient Greece, dipped their children at birth in olive oil to keep their skin as they are then; hairless throughout their lives.

Fun Fact Found - Motherly Love

Mothers are in love with their babies.

There are researches showing that tender nurturing and breast-feeding that a mother experiences with her child releases bursts of dopamine, the reward and pleasure chemical, just as it does in romantic love. So it can be said that they fall in love with their babies easily!

Fun Fact Found - Prague

Located on the Vltava River, with its historical background and cultural heritance, Prague is the dream land for many of us. Here are some interesting facts about Prague that you might not know;

• The ancient and magical pseudo science of alchemy was a hugely popular job amongst the elite in Prague during the Middle Ages. Turning minerals into gold became a mark of people's status if funding was given to these so-called magicians.
• The Czechs in Prague drink more beer per capita than other country in the world. Each head will sink about 43 gallons a year on average.
• The cheapest beer is sold in Prague. You may find some beer even cheaper than a can of coke.
• The first sugar cubes were made in the Czech town of Dacice in 1841.
• There are signs all over Prague for Black Light Theatre. Follow the signs and find this unique type of theatre where actors perform in a pitch black theatre with florescent costumes and props. 
• Prague’s most famous sculptor is David Cerny, and he has a number of works dotted around the city in public places. His bizarre creations are known for their ability to both amuse and offend the public. Some examples of his works include “Babies”, “Brownnosers”, and “Horse”.

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