My grandfather tried to warn them about the Titanic. He screamed and shouted about the iceberg and how the ship was going to sink, but all they did was throw him out of the theater.
Historically syphilis was called "French disease" by the Italians, "Italian disease" by the French, "Spanish disease" by the Dutch, and "Christian Disease" by the Turks.
Plants can sense being touched, and they can use several strategies to defend against damage caused by herbivores. Many plants produce secondary metabolites, known as allelochemicals, that influence the behavior, growth, or survival of herbivores. #thehappenning
Garlic turns blue in vinegar due to a chemical reaction between the sulfur compounds in garlic with the trace amounts of copper in vinegar. Despite the appearance, the garlic is still safe to eat.
Maurice Sendak based the monsters in "Where the Wild Things Are" on his Eastern European immigrant relatives, who scared him with their unkempt hair and bad teeth.
The 1902 Saint-Pierre Volcano eruption killed all 35,000 people in the town except one man who survived because he was a prisoner who lived in a solitary confinement cell.