The Glass of a beer bottle is brown or green to reduce spoilage from light, especially UV.

To prevent the process of skunking from occurring, beer brewers have opted for darkly tinted glass. It's why you see so many beers in brown glass bottles today.

A Man in Florida used a cell phone jammer on his way to work every day because he didn't want drivers around him to be distracted by their phones

He was fined $48,000 by the FCC when he was caught.

A Hungarian psychologist named Laszlo Polgar theorized that anyone could become a genius because geniuses were made and not born.

To prove this, he used his own daughters as experiments and trained them to become great at chess. The three Polgar sisters then became chess prodigies, and the youngest, Judit Polgar, become a grandmaster at just age 15.

In the 1640's the Dutch inhabitants of New Amsterdam built a 12' wall to keep the bad hombres out. In 1664 the British ignored the wall and took New Amsterdam by sea. It's now called New York. They took down the wall and built a street. It's called Wall Street

In 1830, the first telegraph line connecting the cities of Paris and Lille was established in France. What's intriguing is that specifically trained pigeons were used to transmit messages, carrying miniature telegrams in pockets attached to special vests. This method of communication was considered highly effective, and the pigeon telegraphers successfully carried out their tasks until electric telegraph equipment became widely adopted.

Japan has over 200 flavours of Kit Kats. They're exclusively created for different regions, cities, and seasons. There are some tasty-sounding ones like banana, blueberry cheesecake and Oreo ice cream, as well as some very questionable ones like baked potato, melon and cheese, wasabi, and vegetable juice.

In Japan, there is a restaurant called “The restaurant of mistaken orders” which only employs waiters with dementia so you never know what food you’re going to get.

A Scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days. This is enabled by their modified lungs, which are known as book lungs.

The World's oldest bank still in operation is Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which was founded in 1472.

In Hawaiian culture, a flower behind a woman's right ear indicates that she is single. If the flower is behind her left ear, it indicates that she is engaged, married, or dating.