5 Really interesting facts to open the week

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So as always, it's the start of the week, so let's open it up with some interesting facts that you might enjoy reading and finding them informative.
without further ado, let's go

#1 -

Have you ever wondered if your partner is actually a distant cousin? Your spouse is a distant relative and you have a blood connection? Probably not, because what are the chances...

So in Iceland (a country of 330,000 people), there is a very good chance that the girl you once went out with will meet at a family reunion, or God forbid that when you bring the guy to meet your parents, your mother will have a stroke.

so what are we doing?! Icelanders have the BUMP app to deny this option. It is based on databases and family trees that contain information dating back 1,000 years.

Download, beat phones, negative result? Go for it. Positive? Go to be tested.

Her slogan is "Bump the app before you bump in bed".

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-24304415/icelandic-phone-app-stops-you-dating-close-relatives

#2 -

Salvador Dali used to invite his friends to fancy restaurants, and when the moment came he would pay with a check on which he would draw a small painting.

Dali knew that no wise man would ever redeem such a check, thereby avoiding paying for the expensive meals.

Source: http://listverse.com/2014/03/28/10-bizarre-facts-about-salvador-dali/

#3 -

Imagine that you could reach anywhere on earth in less than an hour ... so it turns out that at least in theory it is possible.

Meet the gravitational train.

If we take every two random points on the earth and dig a straight underground tunnel between them - say, we take the North Pole and the South Pole and dig a canal that will pass right through the Earth's core; Or Tel Aviv and New York so that the canal will pass somewhere a little far below the Atlantic - and then we'll put a train into this ditch, and we'll just let it go in, without an engine or anything, we'll just let it go ... No matter between which two points she passes, 42.2 minutes complete her course.

Why and why ?! Well, the train would fall into the ditch, with the force of gravitation pulling it toward the core of the earth and speeding it up. When you reach the middle of the runway it will be at maximum speed, so you will continue to scramble forward against the force of gravity, which this time will slow it until it finally stops at zero at the finish point. It will always take the same time if you ignore the power of friction for a moment-because the longer the tunnel is, the faster the train will reach and the distance will pass in less time, and vice versa.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_train

#4 -

One of the most quoted sentences from the film The Lion King is not said at all!

The famous phrase "One day old, all this will be yours" does not say any character at any stage in the film

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#5 -

The famous music producer DJ Khaled began his career as the "Arab Attack", but decided to change his stage name after the Twin Towers disaster

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khaled

The facts were taken and translated from the public Facebook group "unimportant facts ( עובדות לא חשובות )"