15 random info to brighten up your weekend

The weekend is coming and after a stressful week - or not! "Nothing better than a selection of completely random information to enrich your repertoire of curiosities, isn't it?" After all, it never hurts to accumulate this kind of knowledge to entertain friends or, perhaps, for you to chat with someone interesting! Check out:

1 - Did you know that the name Jessica was created by William Shakespeare, and appears in the play "The Merchant of Venice", written between 1596 and 1598?

2 - Do you have a habit of cursing people for asshole? For, by the medical definition of this term, the imbecile is smarter than the idiot, and less clever than the mentally weak.

3 - During the American colonial period, in the state of Virginia it was considered a crime to plot or destroy a tobacco plant under the death penalty.

4 - For some strange reason, Queen Victoria of England - whose reign lasted from 1837 to 1901 - forbade the royal train to exceed 45 kilometers per hour, and on one occasion came to flog and dismiss the driver after realizing that the The train traveled faster than she allowed it.

5 - The first strike in recorded history occurred in the year 1160 BC, when the men who worked on the construction of the tomb of Pharaoh Rameses III came together to claim a small salary for their services.

6 - If we made a hole across the earth and threw a book inside, it would take 42 minutes to complete the course.

7 - The most remote island in the world, called Bouvet, is located in the South Atlantic and the closest place to it is Antarctica, which is 1, 600 kilometers away.

8 - Did you know that it is impossible to lick your own elbow? And we know you'll try to lick yours just to prove that what we said is true!

The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to be the largest and bloodiest in history, with an estimated 2 million civilian-military casualties.

10 - According to the European Federation of Victims of the Route, 25 million people have lost their lives in traffic accidents throughout history.

11 - If we "shrunk" the sun until it was the size of a white blood cell, considering the same scale, the Milky Way would be the size of the continental United States.

12 - The closest place to meet zero longitude and zero latitude is called Cape Three Points, located in the Gulf of Guinea on the west African coast.

13 - In 1923, a jockey named Frank Hayes won a race in New York even after his death. Hayes suffered a heart attack midway and his body was locked in the cell until the horse crossed the finish line.

14 - Powerful earthquakes can alter the movement of the earth on its axis and thus the duration of days permanently. Examples were the 2004 earthquake in Sumatra and the 2011 earthquake in Japan, which made the days shorter at 6.8 microseconds and 1.8 microseconds, respectively.

15 - The longest musical performance in history is still going on right now at St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany. This is a John Cage piece called “Organ2 / ASLSP” played as slowly as possible. Reproduction of the work began in September 2001 and is expected to last 639 years, ie it will be completed in the year 2640.