If you pour cold water into a person’s ear, their eyes will move in direction of the opposite ear, if you pour warm water into their ear, their eyes will move towards that ear. This is used to test for brain damage and is called ‘caloric stimulation’.
There are two ATM in Antarctica both operated by Wells Fargo Bank. And although there are two ATMs, only one is in use at a time. VP David Parker explained the logic saying, “The other is one that they can sort of cannibalize, if you will, for parts or spare things that they need to make the other one live and operational.”
The world's most expensive burger was the USocial.net anniversary burger, which was sold for charity in 2012. Tge burger sold for $10,000 dollars at auction and featured Wagyu beef, truffles, 24-karat gold leaf, and sliced Spanish jamón ibérico.
The world's largest city today did not exist 35 years ago.A small fishing village with a few hundred inhabitants in southern China's Bao'An District was designated as the country's first Special Economic Zone in 1979. The city that grew around it is today called Shenzhen, China and forms a metropolitan area with surrounding municipals boasting a total population of some 49 million-- making it the largest city on the planet.
England came up with the word “soccer”. It’s a shortened version of “Association Football” that was changed to “Assoc Football”. This was changed to “Soccer”. In 19th century England, it was popular to add the “-er” sound to shortened words.
The University of Phoenix requires a master's degree to teach there but if your masters is from The University of Phoenix, they don't consider you qualified enough.
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