Top 10 Weird Urban Myths

Thanks to the Internet, we have unique access to these random facts. Here, we have bought 10 Weird Urban facts for your reading gratification. Get ready to impress your friends with these – some facts really made me smile.

Auroville, India has residents from over 50 different countries.

Auroville is an experimental community placed in southern India that wanted to separate from modern-day utopia. It was founded in 1968, the town has planned to have 50,000 residents, but presently there living 2,300 people- but they are from the entire world.

Pablo Picasso actually has 14 names.

Painter Pablo Picasso desires to keep his name simple and short, but his name is mouthful: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad

Someone safely landed a plane in the middle of Manhattan. Twice.

In 1956, a drunk pilot named Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a plane and safely landed it on St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan. After two years, he said the story in a bar. The bar patrons didn’t believe him, so Fitzpatrick is only the person responded in a reasonable way. He went out and did it again.

There’s a building in Canada…that’s also in the United States.

The Opera House and Haskell Free Library sits between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont. When the seating is in the USA, the stage of the opera house is in Canada.

Albert Einstein had a plan B.

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician,” Einstein said. “I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

Obviously, Einstein succeeded as a physicist – but he still played a standard violin.

Washington D.C.’s cherry blossom trees were a gift from the Japanese.

On February 14, 1912, 3020 cherry trees came from Japan to Washington D.C. They were presented by the former mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki to the city. Presently D.C residents and tourists can view the blossoms on The National Mall every spring.

Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named after a god.

No one knows who came up with the name “Earth,” but what we have known is that it is derived from German- particularly, the word “erde” which means “ground.”

Ed O’Neill can’t actually time travel.

Actor Ed O’Neil was filmed reading a newspaper about 20 years ago, a scene from an episode of Married with children. O’Neil was recently spotted reading the SAME newspaper in his new sitcom, Modern Family. The reason for this blunder is obviously TV and movie props are usually reused, still decades late.

The internet went crazy while 20 years apart divulge actor Ed O’Neil reading the same newspaper. It was no deception. Changes tv/movie props are recycled and reuse, but by using power of the internet nothing is missed.

Thomas Alva Edison was afraid of the dark.

Good thing he invented the light bulb.

Native Americans helped America win World War II

At the stage of World War II, the American soldiers created different codes to communicate with each other under the radar of the German military. The Germans handled to crack more codes except for one: That is derived from Navajo languages.