Men - 100 Interesting facts
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1. Two con men sold a fake painting (Goya painting) for €1.5 million, only to find out that all the money was counterfeit.
2. Mark Twain traveled extensively and once said "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth."
3. Two men were brought up on federal hacking charges when they exploited a bug in video poker machines and won half a million dollars. His lawyer argued, "All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push." The case was dismissed.
4. When building the Golden Gate Bridge, the lead structural engineer insisted on the installation of a safety net even though its $130,000 cost was deemed exorbitant. Over the four years of its construction, the net saved 19 men, who named themselves the “Halfway to Hell Club.”
5. In 2003, two men strolled on to a Boeing 727 and just flew off. They and the plane haven't been seen since.
6. While John and Clarence Anglin, 2 of the 3 men who ever escaped from Alcatraz, were officially reported to have drowned in the bay, their mother received flowers anonymously every Mother's Day until she died, and two very tall unknown women were reported to have attended her funeral.
7. In 1949, BB King re-entered a burning music hall to save his favorite $30 Gibson guitar. King later learned the fire was started when two men knocked over a burning barrel of kerosene while fighting over a woman named Lucille. King has named every guitar he's owned Lucille as a reminder.
8. Lionel Richie grew up in racially segregated Alabama and once unwittingly drank from a whites only fountain. White men confronted his father, who grabbed Richie and ran off. Richie asked his father why he didn’t stay and fight. His dad answered, “I had a choice: to be a man or be a father.”
9. A woman (Holly Van Voast) won $40,000 as a settlement from NYC due to police repeatedly arresting her for going topless in public. However, it's perfectly legal for men and women to be topless in NYC.
10. In South Korea, men who win Olympic medals do not have to participate in the two-year long mandatory military service.
11. In 2011, two Nepali men (Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsering Sherpa) climbed Mount Everest and then proceeded to paraglide off of the summit, landing 35 km away. They then hiked and kayaked to the Bay of Bengal, winning the pair National Geographic Adventurers of the Year.
12. When scientists first realized that American gay men and Africans in France were both suffering from the same disease (AIDS), French researchers sent over a sample to be tested. But a scientist with a grudge against the French Institute switched out the sample, setting research back years.
13. More than 10 years, 2 disabled men in China, one without arms and the other without sight, have been planting trees together and have so far planted more than 10,000.
14. Our walking speed is affected by whom we’re with: men’s pace slows down by an average of 7% when walking with female partners they’re interested in; women walking together move the slowest; & men walking with male friends moved at speeds faster than either man’s preferred walking speed.
15. Paul Revere did not complete his famous ride, he was captured by the British. He was riding with two other men, William Dawes escaped, then fell off his horse. The third man, Dr. Samuel Prescott, was the only one who actually made it to their destination, Concord.
16. Lord Acton's famous quote 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' is immediately followed by 'Great men are almost always bad men'.
17. Hugh Jackman, at 1.90 (6ft 3in), stands 30cm taller than Wolverine, portrayed in the comic as 1.60 (5ft 3in). When they made X-Men (2000) the filmmakers were forced to shoot Jackman at unusual angles or from the waist up to make him appear shorter, and his co-stars wore platform soles.
18. In 1780, a slave named Elizabeth Freeman essentially ended slavery in Massachusetts by suing for her freedom on the basis that the new state constitution declared that all men are born free and equal.
19. Post-relationship grief affects men, in the long term, more than women.
20. Hugh Jackman accidentally stabbed the Mystique stuntwoman in the arm while filming the first X-Men movie. She looked at the gaping hole in her arm and said 'Yes! I have been stabbed by Wolverine!'
21. David Bowie's first TV appearance was in 1964 at the age of 17, but was not for his music. He was interviewed on the BBC's Tonight show as the founder of 'The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men'.
22. Silas Soule, an abolitionist who, among other accomplishments, was present at the Sandy Creek Massacre where he refused to order his men to fire. He testified at Congress against his commanding officer and was murdered soon after, likely as a result of his testimony.
23. In a study on the appeal of chocolate, it took researchers 1 year to find 11 men who don't like chocolate.
24. Women are twice as likely to initiate a suicide attempt but Men are four times more likely to succeed.
25. Winston Churchill, along with many of the Royal Navy's highest ranking men, came very close to death after the ship they were on was fired at by a U-boat with 3 torpedoes. All three struck the hull of the ship, but all failed to explode.
26. There is an anime and manga in Japan called Saint Young Men, which is about Jesus and Buddha living as roommates in Tokyo while taking a vacation on Earth and attempting to understand Japanese society.
27. The revolving door was invented because the inventor disliked the social convention of men holding doors for women.
28. About 50% of the men ejaculate in under two minutes and the average male expects to have intercourse for 18 minutes.
29. The first deodorant for men was launched in 1935 (decades after the introduction of deodorants for women) because, at the beginning of the 20th century, body odor was not considered a problem for men; it was a part of being masculine.
30. A study found that nearly half of all homeless men had suffered a "traumatic" brain injury, with 87% having sustained the injury prior to becoming homeless.
31. In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman (Ruth Coker Burks) single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn't claim them.
32. A ten-year psychological study found that men who kissed their wives before leaving for work lived, on average, five years longer, earning 20 to 30 percent more than peers who left without a kiss.
33. It's illegal for offices in NYC to require men to wear ties without also requiring women to wear ties.
34. In 1859, an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. In the ensuing confrontation, 461 Americans and 14 artillery faced 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig.
35. Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey launched a 'Great Building Campaign' during the Great Depression with the aim of employing more people. When he was told that a steam shovel being used on a project did the work of 40 men, he instructed his foreman: "Take them off. Hire 40 men."
36. A Chinese general named Zhuge Liang with 100 troops who had to defend a town against 150,000. He told his men to hide, flung open the gates and sat on the walls playing the lute. The opposing general, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
37. There was a religion in medieval Europe called Cathar. It was a splinter of Christianity, and they held beliefs such as women and men being equal and homosexuality being tolerated.
38. Between 120 and 140 men, women and children were killed on September 11, 1857, in Utah, when Mormons attacked and slaughtered a wagon train with the help of local Indians the bodies were stripped of belongings by Mormons and sold off at local auctions for profit.
39. Michael Caine once held Sean Connery’s coat while the James Bond star single-handedly beat up four men in a nightclub.
40. In 1986, the United Way released 1.5 million balloons in Cleveland as a publicity stunt. It clogged the land and waterways of NE Ohio, shut down an airport runway, and forced the Coast Guard to suspend a search and rescue of 2 men who ended up drowning.
41. In 1977, singer Tom Waits was arrested outside a coffee shop for trying to stop men from bullying other patrons. These men were plainclothes officers, and Waits was charged with disturbing the peace. Waits disputed the charge, was found not guilty, and successfully sued the police dept. for $7,500.
42. During salvage efforts in Pearl Harbor, two Navy Divers became trapped when a piece of wreckage collapsed. By tunneling through 20' of mud and steel, Francis P Hammerberg saved both men but became trapped himself in the wreckage. He died 18 hours later and was awarded the Medal of Honor.
43. 150 Irish soldiers defended a Congo town from 3000 African mercs for six days, killed 300 of the mercs and didn't lose any men themselves.
44. The South Park character Liane Cartman is based on an ex-girlfriend of co-creator Trey Parker, who was found cheating with multiple men. Trey's ex was also called Liane.
45. 2 Florida men failed to steal a Corvette because they couldn't drive stick. At gunpoint, the owner told them 4 times to push the clutch, but they gave up and ran away on foot with only the man's phone, keys, and wallet.
46. In Japan, you can hire handsome men to show up at your office and watch sad videos with you until you cry, then wipe your tears for you.
47. The 33 men stuck underground for 69 days in the San Esteban Mining Company accident received zero compensation even though the mining company had very poor safety standards.
48. Don King killed two men. One he stomped to death because he owed him money, he served less than 4 years in prison.
49. Tigers, jaguars and leopards love the smell of Calvin Klein's 'Obsession For Men'. This fragrance is used to lure the big cats to cameras in the wild.
50. A genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorized that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.
51. The word "dude" was first used in the late 1800s as an insult towards young men who were overly concerned with keeping up with the latest fashions.
52. The word homophobia was originally used to refer to heterosexual men's fear that others might think they are gay.
53. Disbarred attorney Jack Thompson once gave Janet Reno a form, asking about her sexuality. Reno responded by saying "I'm only interested in virile men that's why I'm not interested in you." Thompson later sued her for battery due to her putting a hand on his shoulder.
54. Breastfeeding invokes in the mother the neurochemical oxytocin, otherwise known as the "love drug," which helps to focus her attention and affection on her baby. It's now been theorized that men who do nipple foreplay and stimulation during sex can make themselves more desirable.
55. Almost one-third of London men are too fat to see their own genitals.
56. People were confused how a Chinese couple managed to run a busy restaurant 21 hours a day without getting tired. Locals named it "robot couple restaurant". Turns out the restaurant is run by two couples both the men and women are identical twins.
57. In 1916, a miscalculation of Montana's population led to 40,000 men being drafted into the 1st World War which is 10% of the state's population.
58. In the UK, the most common cause of death for men under 50 is suicide.
59. In 1973, two men were stranded 1,575 feet below the ocean when their submarine buoyancy tank inadvertently flooded. They were rescued after 76 hours with only 12 minutes of air remaining. It was the deepest underwater rescue mission in history.
60. In the 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service undertook a massive and futile search for a woman named "Dorothy" in the Chicago area, after hearing gay men refer to themselves as "friends of Dorothy". They believed she was at the center of a ring of gay military personnel.
61. 26.5 million Canadians tuned into the gold medal final in men's hockey during the 2010 Winter Olympics. That's 80% of the entire country's population.
62. Men's tennis players use a different type of tennis ball than women.
63. Caesar built an 18km wall around a Gaulish fort he was seighing and then a 21km wall facing outwards, essentially building a fort around a fort. He then beat 300,000+ Gauls attacking from both sides with only 60,000 men.
64. Rapper T.I. has talked two men out of jumping off a building on two unrelated occasions.
65. In a 60's government funded LSD study, "26 men unleashed a slew of widely embraced innovations shortly after their LSD experiences, including a mathematical theorem for NOR gate circuits, a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device,".
66. The pockets on men's dress clothing are often sewn shut to preserve aesthetics during transport to, and display in the store. These are functional pockets that can be opened up and are not fake pockets as many assume.
67. There are only 5 countries were suicide rate for women is higher than men and they are China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, and Indonesia.
68. The Copsey Brothers were the first men to build a jail in Lower Lake, CA, the first to occupy it, after celebrating its completion too enthusiastically, and the first to escape, after realizing they had forgotten to nail down the roof.
69. Men only have nipples because they develop them before being assigned a gender as an embryo.
70. Few men reproduce with many women, 2/3 of your ancestors are female, not 1/2. Also, overall throughout humanity, 80% of females end up reproducing, while only 40% of males do.
71. In 1955, Hugh Hefner released a short story about straight men being persecuted in a gay world. After receiving numerous hate mail, he released a statement saying "If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too."
72. James McAvoy wore a wig in X-Men: First Class as he mistakenly shaved his head whilst preparing for the role of Professor X.
73. During the English Civil War, Lady Mary Bankes defended a castle from over 200 attackers with only five men under her initial command. She would be reinforced by 80 royalists and would hold against a total 600 men for three years before being betrayed and forced to surrender.
74. Steve Harvey believes women should not date non-religious men, for they don't have morals (despite him cheating on all previous wives) and that men only cheat because their wife allows them to.
75. 45 percent of couples in Hong Kong say they have given up on the idea of having children because of crowding and high housing costs. In another survey, 38% of men and 31% of women simply said they didn't like kids.
76. 25% of all Russian men die before they reach their mid-50s, mainly due to vodka.
77. 1 in every 14 adult men in the United States don’t watch nationally televised sports whatsoever.
78. An Oxford University study concluded that men need at least two "guys nights" a week to stay healthy.
79. After a Colonel called his men "animals" for cutting off the heads of Japanese dead and impaling them on poles, one soldier responded "That's right Colonel, we are animals. We live like animals, we eat and are treated like animals–what the fu*k do you expect?"
80. When Genghis Khan sent a trade caravan to the Khwarezmid Empire, the governor of one city seized it and killed the traders. Genghis Khan retaliated by invading the empire with 200,000 men and killing the governor by pouring molten silver down his eyes and mouth.
81. There are 17 American men in history who have run under 2:10 in the marathon. In contrast, there were 32 Kenyans who did it just in October of 2011.
82. A new birth control method for men that has a 100% success rate in test subjects so far. Developed by an Indian doctor, it works similar to an 'on-off' switch and would afford countless families across the globe an incredibly cheap method to control the size of their families.
83. Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Roman Emperor. 564 years ago today, as Ottoman cannons breached the once-mighty Theodosian Walls of Constantinople, he donned the appearance of a common soldier and led his remaining men to one last valiant charge in the name of Rome and their home.
84. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (killing at least 33 young men) was very active in local community activities. As a result of his contributions, he met and was photographed with then-First Lady Rosalynn Carter and given special security clearance by the secret service.
85. A man once received a heart transplant from a suicide victim, married the donor's widow, then killed himself four years later in the same manner as the donor.
86. 18th-century Prussian king Frederick William I was obsessed with having soldiers over 6 foot tall. He paid families for tall children, kidnapped tall men, bred them by pairing up his soldiers with tall women, and even stretched them on a rack to make them taller.
87. In 1922, Nikola Tesla imagined that his favorite pigeon told him that she was dying. When she actually did shortly after, he said that "something went out of his life and he knew his life's work was finished".
88. It snowed 8 inches on the eve of John F. Kennedy's inauguration. To clear Pennsylvania Avenue, an army of men worked all night, using flame-throwers.
89. Bohemian Grove is a 137-year-old secret camp, that Nixon called "The faggiest goddamn thing you could ever imagine". The camp is private and only open to the rich and powerful men of the world.
90. In May 2011, two Muslim men in traditional Muslim attire were removed from an airplane after other passengers said they were uncomfortable. The men were on their way to a conference on prejudice against Muslims.
91. Women and men who like the taste of beer are 60% more likely to have sex on the first date.
92. Atheism was banned within the Nazi SS. All SS men were required to list themselves as Protestant, Catholic or "believer in God".
93. The unsolved death of two men found on a hilltop wearing lead eye masks with no apparent injuries. A nearby notebook was found to contain the message '16:30 be at the specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules after the effect protect metals wait for signal mask'.
94. Christopher Columbus, in an effort to induce the natives of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse
95. While sudden heart attacks during sex are rare, most of them happen to men who are cheating on their wives.
96. The prankster Horace de Vere Cole once ruined a "pretentious and terrible play" by giving tickets for strategically selected seats to bald men. When the lights went up to their shiny heads spelt out a swear word.
97. There was a study that showed that men weren't attracted to women's butts, but rather the implied spinal curvature that creates the illusion. The spinal curvature positively affects the ability to have children.
98. A Seattle businessman founded a sperm bank in 1980 which accepted sperm only from Nobel laureates or 'accomplished men.' The intent was to create genetically superior children. Of the 218 children born under the program, many are reportedly geniuses at various disciplines.
99. In Liechtenstein's last military engagement they sent 80 men and returned with 81 as they had made a friend.
100. In 1965, the FBI knowingly caused 4 innocent men to be falsely convicted and sentenced to die because the real murderer was an informant for the agency.
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