Fun Facts That Are

A completely silent song on Spotify called "Sleepify" earned a band over $20,000 in royalties before being removed. Fans played it on repeat overnight while sleeping to support the band Vulfpeck, who used the money to fund a free tour.

The first iPhone demo in 2007 was so unstable that Apple engineers created a "golden path" - a specific sequence of actions Steve Jobs had to follow exactly during the presentation. If he deviated even slightly, the prototype would crash, so they had multiple phones ready backstage to swap in if needed.

During WWII, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defied his government to save 6,000 Jewish refugees. He wrote visas by hand for 29 days straight, even throwing them from his train window as he was forced to leave.

In scientific experiments, rats consistently chose to free their trapped companions from cages, even when chocolate was offered as an alternative. They would then share the chocolate with their freed friend.

The mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors compared to humans' 3, but despite this they're actually terrible at distinguishing between similar shades. Scientists believe they use colors more like a barcode scanner than a camera.

All clownfish are born male. When the dominant female in a group dies, the dominant male will transform into a female to take her place—making Finding Nemo's plot biologically impossible.

The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one. Fredric Baur was so proud of his creation that he requested part of his ashes be stored in a Pringles container after his death in 2008.

The inventor of the modern chocolate chip cookie sold the recipe to Nestlé for just $1—and a lifetime supply of chocolate.

The world's first computer programmer was a woman, Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first algorithm for Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical computer in 1843. Her work included the revolutionary idea that machines could process more than just numbers, envisioning computer-generated music and art.

Chocolate was once considered medicine, prescribed by European doctors to treat angina and depression as late as the 19th century.

Some people can taste words—a rare phenomenon called lexical-gustatory synesthesia, where hearing or reading certain words triggers unique flavors in their mouths.

The inventor of the first successful digital hearing aid, Miller Reese Hutchison, also designed some of the earliest car horns—helping people be heard in two very different ways.