13 curious events that are part of human history

1 - An IT employee from South Africa decided to place a curious bet in 2009 on the company where he worked. According to him, a series of documents that needed to be uploaded before being sent would take too long via ADSL. In fact, he ensured that a carrier pigeon would be more efficient in the task if it carried a flash drive with such documents to the final destination, which was 96 km away. Result: the bird took two hours to deliver the flash drive - at that time only 4% of the content had been sent via ADSL;

2 - Anonymous people once decided to screw up Scientology leaders and sent thousands of faxes to the group. The leaves were all painted black with the intention of destroying the sect's ink cartridges;

Actor Keanu Reeves often offers to receive less for his roles when the budget for the films he makes is limited. So producers can hire higher-ranking actors - in "The Devil's Advocate, " for example, Reeves offered to earn a lot less, so the film crew was able to pay Al Pacino's paycheck;

Actor Daniel Radcliffe once decided to wear the same jacket and hat for six months. The reason? Any picture taken of him by paparazzi would always look the same and would be classified as old at the time of sale;

5 - During their first 40 million years of existence on the planet, dead trees did not rot, since the fungi that deteriorate them were not yet well developed. The trees were eventually piled up, and when one of them caught fire, everything turned into a big bonfire that burned for years - that's where even most of the world's coal comes from;

6. Some time ago, in England, two thieves received a very light penalty after breaking into a man's house. During the crime, they tampered with the homeowner's computer and, upon discovering an immense amount of pedophilia material, surrendered to the police to denounce the arrested pedophile. Good bandits were sentenced to only 12 months of community service;

7 - Bill Gates, also known for his philanthropic actions, has donated $ 28 billion since 2007 and is therefore responsible for saving the lives of 6 million people;

8 - Do you know who was the most successful pirate of all time? It was actually The Pirate! Her name was Ching Shih, and she was a Chinese prostitute who commanded over 1, 800 ships and gave orders to 200, 000 pirates. She was not defeated by the British, Portuguese and Qing Dynasty members who wanted her neck. Eventually, Shih decided to retire and eventually opened a game house;

9 - In 2004, a boy survived the Indonesian tsunami and was found 21 days later, alone and wearing a T-shirt from Portugal. Player Cristiano Ronaldo learned of the case, and took care of all the education of the boy, who grew up, became a soccer player and recently signed a contract in Lisbon;

Actress Angelina Jolie once tried to order her own murder because she thought her family would handle it better than suicide. The shooter she wanted to hire eventually convinced her to give up the idea;

11 - Hurricanes and cyclones are named after people today because of meteorologist Clement Wragge, who was the first to name these phenomena and decided to “honor” bad politicians, who are also known to cause major disasters;

Stan Lee receives $ 1 million a year from Marvel, just for being Stan Lee;

13 - Former Liberian President Charles King owns the world record for the most fraudulent election ever. The reason? He won the 1927 elections with 234, 000 votes in a country that at the time had 15, 000 voters.