A Male Honebee's penis gets destroyed after sex!

Honey Bees are a pretty suicidal species. When you get stung by one, its stinger is detached from the body, leaving with it the bee's vital organs. So it dies. This is a pretty well known fact. 

A more unknown one is what happens to male worker bees when they impregnate a female queen. When a Queen Bee is ready to mate, it takes flight with about a dozen of male drones. Think of it like an insect version of The Bachelor. However, the reward for the eventual male winner is not a rose, but a mating session with the queen that results in his death!

In order to prevent the other 11 drones from impregnating the queen, the male's penis snaps off and remains attached to her, acting as a plug that prevents any more sexual contact. So it dies. 

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J.K. Rowling has edited the Harry Potter books to fix continuity and factual errors!

Like many books, J.K. Rowling has gone back and revised certain errors in the first few editions. For example, Rowling has revised small errors in her books such as Ron saying “I take one step forward and she’ll take me…” Rowling realized that since Ron is riding the knight, it would be impossible to move one space (knights move in an L shape). Knowing this, she changed the quote to “I make my move and she’ll take me…”

However, there have been things changed in earlier books in order to fix the continuity for later in the series. For example, in the first edition of the first book, Hog's Head was mentioned as the pub in the village. It was later revised because another pub, The Three Broomsticks is visited in later books in the series.

Another famous case of retconning a past book is J.R.R. Tolkien with The Hobbit. The chapter dealing with Gollum and the Ring was changed later in order to better flow into the continuty of The Lord of the Rings, once Tolkien decided that Gollum's ring was to become The One Ring, and cause all that trouble.

Check out those Harry Potter changes, and others here

There’s a town in the UK that weighs their mayor before and after their term!

The town is called High Wycombe and the “weighing of the Mayor,” has become a tradition. The ceremony began in 1678 and has continued on to this day. The reason for this? Citizens were angry because they believed public officials were stealing money they didn’t deserve and getting fat off of it.

Thus, they decided to publicly weigh the mayor at the end of their term to ensure they weren’t stealing any money form hard working citizens. Even today, once the mayor is weighed the Town Crier will announce “And no more!” if the Mayor has not gained weight or “And some more!” if they have, at which point the public boos their mayor!

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A man’s likelihood of getting a woman’s phone number increases threefold when he has a dog with him.

As all “dog people” know, the presence of a dog can often cause changes in people’s behavior. In an article written by Gad Saad, a professor of marketing at John Molson School of Business, a study conducted by Nicolas Guégen on the subject is discussed. Guégen conducted four separate studies to if the presence of a dog increased the likelihood of people agreeing to certain requests. 

In the first experiment, a male asked people for money to catch a bus. The experiment was carried out both with a dog and then without a dog present. The second experiment did the same, but with a female. The third experiment involved a male dropping money at a bus stop, again with and without a dog, and seeing how many people would help him pick it up. The final experiment was the one where a man asked women for their phone numbers. 

With the first experiment, 9 out of 80 people gave an average of 26 cents when there was no dog, while 28 out of 80 people gave an average of 31 cents when there was. With the second, 26/100 people gave an average of 31 cents with no dog, while 51/100 gave an average of 47 cents when there was. For the third experiment, 23/40 people helped pick up change without a dog present, while 35/40 helped when there was a dog. 

For the last experiment, it was proven that having a dog increased the amount of phone numbers received by just over triple. Without a dog, there were only 11/120 numbers given, but with a dog there were 34/120. So if you’re ever curious about asking her out, be sure to have a dog handy. 

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Shirley Temple is still alive and was a U.S. Ambassador to both Ghana and Czechoslovakia!

Shirley Temple was a child actress known for her dimples and curly hair. She played roles that portrayed her as an adorable orphan who fixed couples and softened the hearts of gruff men. She retired from films by her teens, but she still had various cameos on TV shows for years. 

Because of her early retirement from showbusiness, a lot of people tend to think that she passed away a long time ago. She's actually had a long life and political career.  

When she was 17 she married John Agar. Within 5 years they divorced and she married Charles Black. They were married 54 years when he passed away from a bone marrow disease. After marrying Black, she became a homemaker. She raised her daughter, Linda, from her marriage to Agar and her two children with Black in California. 

After making her mark in television, Temple became active in the Republican Party in California. In 1967 she ran for a seat in the House of Representatives in a special election to fill a vacant seat. She ran as a conservative and lost to a liberal Republican named Pete McCloskey who was strongly opposed to the Vietnam War. 

She was then appointed Representative to the 24th United Nations General Assembly by President Nixon in 1969. 

After that, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976 under President Ford. She then served as U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 under President Bush. Today, Shirley Temple is living in California at the age of 84. 

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