Honor Facts Generator

• [Honor fact 1]  The first car ever to break a 100 kmh (62mph) barrier was an electric car. The 1899 speed record of La Jamais Contente held for three years until the reign of combustion engines started.

  Honor, Transport source

• [Honor fact 2]  Edith Head won 8 Oscars for best costume design and was the inspiration for Edna Mode in The Incredibles.

  Honor, Movies source

• [Honor fact 3]  During World War II, there was a double agent named Juan Pujol Garcia, who started a spy network consisting of 27 sub-agents of his own, all of them nonexistent. He submitted expense reports for them and had the Nazis giving him money to pay their salaries. He later received the Iron Cross, approved by Hitler himself.

  Badass, Honor, Nazi source

• [Honor fact 4]  Private First Class James Anderson Jr. sacrificed his life by smothering a grenade in Vietnam with his body on Feb. 28, 1967. He was 20. In doing so he became the first African American US Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

  Honor, Military source

• [Honor fact 5]  The Simpsons is not the longest running cartoon series of all time. The Guinness World record is held by Sazae-san, with more than 7000 episodes, which has been running since 1969 in Japan.

  Cartoons, Honor source

• [Honor fact 6]  The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for Biology was jointly presented to Benjamin Smith of the University of Adelaide, Australia and the University of Toronto, Canada and the Firmenich perfume company, Geneva, Switzerland, and ChemComm Enterprises, Archamps, France; Craig Williams of James Cook University and the University of South Australia; Michael Tyler of the University of Adelaide; Brian Williams of the University of Adelaide; and Yoji Hayasaka of the Australian Wine Research Institute; for painstakingly smelling and cataloging the peculiar odors produced by 131 different species of frogs when the frogs were feeling stressed.

  Animals, Honor source

• [Honor fact 7]  On December 6, 2012, Journey became the first video game in history to be nominated for a Grammy Award.

  Games, Honor source

• [Honor fact 8]  The ‘Oscar Love Curse’ is a strong superstition that is believed to be true in Hollywood circles. According to it, a woman who is awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress is doomed to have her relationship fail, where her boyfriend or husband will cheat on her or divorce her soon after.

  Honor, Misc source

• [Honor fact 9]  Guinness World Records had to ban a certain type of paper aircraft after a guy flew it for 30 minutes straight.

  Art, Honor source

• [Honor fact 10]  Three researchers won the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for “testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds).”

  Honor, Humanbody source

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