Here are some random facts for you.
1. Even though the “Minions” from the “Despicable Me” franchise speak a fictional language, they’re still re-dubbed for each language the films are released in, so that their speech patterns are recognizable to the audience.
2. The longest surgery ever recorded was performed in 2001 by a team of 20 doctors. It took 103 hours to complete, which is more than four days. They were separating 11-month-old twins who were conjoined at the head. The surgery was a success.
3. The first major screenplay to incorporate synchronized sound, moving film, and color slides was produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1912.
4. Chia seeds can absorb up to 27 times their weight in water, and it’s led to the hospitalization of at least one person.
5. Only one U.S. president has ever died of cancer: Ulysses S. Grant, who died of throat cancer in 1885. (Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with cancer 10 years before his death, but he beat it, and lived to be 100.)
(Wikipedia / Popular Mechanics / Wikipedia / AJG / Wikipedia)
