If you hyperventilate, you can hold your breath underwater longer!

This is because when you hyperventilate, you are getting rid of a lot of the CO2 in your body. CO2 buildup is one of the causes for you feeling pain when you hold your breath too long. By getting rid of it, you delay the body's need to breathe for longer.

However, this can also be dangerous. Hyperventilation reduces the level of CO2 but does not particularly increase the level of Oxygen in your bloodstream. This means that you may run out of oxygen but because you don't have CO2, you won't feel the need to breathe and you may pass out!

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When the US space station Skylab crashed in Australia, the municipality fined the US for littering!

In 1979, pieces of the US space station Skylab fell from the sky and littered the Australian municipality of Esperance. The craft had broken apart over the Indian Ocean.

Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering! It wasn’t until 2009 that they were paid, though. A radio show host, Scott Barley, raised the money from his listeners and paid the fine on behalf of NASA.

The San Francisco Examiner offered $10,000 to the first person to bring them pieces of the Skylab. A 17 year old from Esperance scooped some scraps of the Skylab from his roof and took the first flight to San Francisco where he collected his prize!

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Hitler and his niece may have been lovers. They committed suicide with the same gun, 14 years apart!

Though it is speculation, Hitler is said to have been in love and in a romantic relationship with his half-sister’s daughter, Angela “Geli” Raubal. When Geli was 17, her mother became Hitler’s housekeeper and Hitler became alarmingly close and protective of Geli.

She was almost alway escorted by Hitler or someone close to him. She committed suicide in 1931. In the days leading up to he death, she was supposedly in the middle of a huge fight with Hitler. 

She was found dead with her room locked from the inside, and shot with Hitler’s Walther pistol. Her death was ruled a suicide, yet she was given a Catholic funeral which was not usual at the time, for suicide victims. Some speculate that Hitler had her killed for disobeying him or refusing him.

It is said that Hitler became a different man after Geli’s death, embittered and angry with humanity. After her death, Hitler kept a picture of Geli in each of his bedrooms and no one was allowed to say her name. In 1945, Hitler committed suicide with the same Walther pistol that ended Geli’s life.

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Palm oil is killing Orangutans!

The production of palm oil is a booming industry. The palm oil is used in production of biofuel and processed foods like margarine. The increase of palm oil production has led to the destruction of much of the jungle in Borneo, an island in the Pacific Ocean.

Eighty percent of the world’s orangutans live in Indonesia, while the other twenty percent live in Borneo. Orangutans are an endangered species and the deforestation in Borneo is greatly hurting their chance of survival.

If it continues, it will be responsible for completely eradicating the animal within two decades! If ruining their habitat isn’t bad enough, the orangutans face further danger if they happen to damage the palm oil fruits.

They are hunted and killed for this offense, and young apes are captured and kept as pets by locals. There are supposed agreements and meetings taking place to lessen the threat against the orangutans, but time will tell.

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Each character on Gilligan’s Island represented one of the Seven Deadly Sins!

For those of you not familiar with the show, Gilligan’s Island was a TV show about seven castaways who were shipwrecked and attempt ways to leave the island every week but fail.

The main character, Gilligan, would often ruin the escape plan accidentally and leads many to think of him representing Sloth or even the Devil himself (Gilligan always wears red). When you watch episodes, you can see specific characters harboring sins such as the professor (pride), Skipper (anger), and Ginger (lust). Another metaphor in the show is the island the castaways are trapped on could represent Hell itself! To read more about the coincidences between sins and Gilligan, click the Source below!

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