The Pentagon has successfully tested a hypersonic flying bomb that can strike any target in the world within an hour!

In November 2011, the Pentagon successfully launched a bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound. It'll give military planners the ability to strike any place in the world within an hour. It is called the “Advanced Hypersonic Weapon” or AHW. The launch site was in Hawaii and the bomb flew to its strike zone in the Marshall Islands. The bomb flew 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii altogether.

Unlike a ballistic missile, this bomb is maneuverable. Scientifically, hypersonic speed is defined as exceeding mach 5 speeds, which is five times the speed of sound, or 3,728 miles an hour. The test shot was aimed to gather data on aerodynamics, navigation, guidance and control, and thermal protection technologies. 

The AHW is part of the U.S. Army's “Prompt Global Strike” program that aims to create weapons that can strike anywhere in the world within an hour. It cost about 69 million to launch the AHW last November. 

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Walt Disney gave his housekeeper Disney stocks every year for the holidays. She died a multi-millionaire.

If you know much about the growth of Disney since its inception, this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Walt Disney’s housekeeper, Thelma Howard, died just short of 80 years old in 1994. 

Her will revealed some surprising information. The first interesting tidbit was that she had a 9.5 million dollar fortune almost entirely from Disney stocks due to how much they had grown in her lifetime. 

Half of that fortune ended up going to disadvantaged children in the Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation, which was created following her death. Her reasoning for that was due to her aunt, which had suffered much pain and tragedy. This gave her the decision to give something back to children. 

Howard first started working for Walt Disney in 1951 as a live in housekeeper. She was the first that Disney’s children really adored. Walt Disney was so impressed the warm feeling that Howard gave to his children that he rewarded her with Disney stock every Christmas. Disney even called her "The Real Life Mary Poppins."

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In 2010, Japanese officials went to congratulate the oldest man in Tokyo on his 111th birthday and found he’d been dead for 30 years!

Officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato for being the oldest man in Tokyo. They met his family who refused to let them see him. This made them suspicious, so they began a police investigation into the matter.

When the police forced their way into Mr. Kato’s home, they found his mummified remains in his bed. He was wearing underwear and pajamas under a blanket. Mr. Kato had been dead 30 years! 

His family is being investigated for fraud. They say that Mr. Kato locked himself up 30 years ago and became a living Buddha and they had no idea he had passed away. He had received $109,000 in the past six years for widower’s pension after his wife passed away. 

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There was a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! The author REFUSED to let a movie be made out of it.

The sequel book was called Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, but unlike Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it never was made into a movie. The children’s book was released in the US in 1972 and was about Charlie and Willy Wonka traveling to outer space in a glass elevator.

The author, Roald Dahl, was so angry with the film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that he refused to let them make a film of its sequel!

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All the drawings in Titanic were drawn by the director James Cameron, including the nude sketch of Kate Winslet!

James Cameron is quite the artist. He has the two biggest movies of all time and countless other contributions to cinema. However, it’s been said that he was difficult to work with on the movie set.

Other fun facts about Titanic. All the rooms within the ship in the movie were exact replicas of the real Titanic ship based upon photos. The colors and china were accurately depicted of the era, also! Cameron actually hired Russian diving equipment to take real footage of the Titanic wreckage that was over 2 miles under the ocean. He made several high risk dives to capture the footage. Cameron put $200 million into the film and came out with the biggest gross of its time with $1 billion and was nominated for 14 Academy Awards! Bruno Garcia

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