Coldplay's "The Scientist" was written after Chris Martin's failed attempt to play another song on a broken piano!
In an interview with Rolling Stones, Vocalist Christ Martin that when he was working on the band’s second album, he knew that it was missing something. One night during a stay at Liverpool, he found an old piano that was out of tune and attempted to play the George Harrison’s song, “Isn’t it a Pity.”
He recorded the song and concluded upon listening to the recording that the chord sequence he came across a chord sequence that didn’t belong to Harrison’s song but was still “lovely.” From there, the creation of the “Scientist” began…
Tim Allen, the star of Home Improvement and all those Santa Claus films, was a well known dealer and user of cocaine by the students at Western Michigan University. But, like all drug dealers before him, he wanted to make more money. Tim Allen had the genius idea of, with an accomplice, trying to smuggle 1.4 pounds of cocaine through an airport - that's enough cocaine to put someone in jail for life!
The Foo Fighters have taken home countless Grammy's in the past few years, and as a result Dave Grohl seems to have an abundance of them! You could argue that since Grohl has so many, he doesn't cherish them as much as he should because at one point, he used a Grammy to keep his bedroom door open!
You know that sensation you get in your stomach when the person you are completely in love with looks in your general direction or when there’s only one more muffin left and you’re afraid the person in front of you in line is going to ask for it (other than hunger) or when your being hunted by a lion in the African savanna? Those “butterflies in your stomach” are a response to stress.
Two slides were built in Singapore's Changi Airport, one is one-story tall and the other is four-stories (12 m) tall! That makes it the world's largest slide inside an airport, a category we're sure is extremely competitive.
