Hawaiian pizza was not invented by Hawaiians. The first such experiment was conducted by Sam Panopoulos, a Canadian of Greek origin, in a restaurant in Chatham. He chose the name simply from the brand of canned pineapples that he put on pizza.
Madonna's touring team has a special group whose task is to prevent the theft of the singer's DNA. After Madonna leaves the dressing room, these workers carefully clean all the hair, skin particles and droplets of her saliva, and only then allow access to other people's room.
The actions of Arab countries have influenced the dress code in the White House. A side effect of the 1973 energy crisis caused by the refusal of Arab countries to supply oil to Western countries was the progress of emancipation of American women. It was this year that the White House lifted the ban on wearing trousers for female employees, as the temperature in the building was lowered by several degrees due to savings.
If you play a violin in a room where spiders live, insects immediately crawl out of shelters. The sound causes the threads of the web to oscillate, and for spiders it is a signal about prey, for which they immediately get out.
A new species of the thick-headed snake subfamily found in Mexico was given the name Cenaspis aenigma, where the first word is formed from the Spanish «cena», which means «lunch». The fact is that its first specimen was found inside a coral asp in a semi-digested form, which did not prevent zoologists from recognizing unique features not inherent in any other known species.
In 1979, Robert Barbour from Los Angeles applied for a personalized car number, specifying the desired words in descending order of priority «SAILING», «BOATING» and «NO PLATE» — the latter option as a refusal to receive if the first two are already occupied. However, the responsible department, literally following the request, sent him a sign «NO PLATE», and Barbour decided to use it because of its uniqueness. Soon he began to receive thousands of payment requests by mail, as the police, writing parking tickets for cars with missing license plates, wrote «NO PLATE» in the protocol. Barbour did not give up and wrote numerous complaints in response, forcing the police to change the rules for filling out protocols. Soon the demands began to come to another motorist who owned the number «MISSING».
Apple does not give permission for negative movie characters to use their gadgets. Therefore, when we see an iPhone on the screen in someone's hands, it means that this character is positive or neutral. In detectives or thrillers, such information can become a spoiler.
The pupils of the statue of the Bronze Horseman are made in the shape of a heart. Falcone commissioned his pupil Marie-Anne Collot to sculpt the head of the statue, who, according to legend, confessed her love to her teacher through her eyes. Art historians have a more prosaic version: through this form, the master creates the illusion that the sculpture is sighted if the viewer looks up from below. Another famous example of a statue with pupils in the form of hearts is Michelangelo's David.
The first word in the name of «Mona Lisa» the Italians themselves write «Monna» is a polite address to a woman, an abbreviation of Madonna. And the word «mona» in Italian is either an outdated name for a monkey, or a dialect expletive meaning «idiot».
In New Zealand, bird of the Year elections are held annually to draw attention to rare and endangered species. In 2021, the New Zealand long-tailed bat received this title, although it is a mammal. The Forest & Bird organization explained the decision to include her in the voting list by saying that bats face the same problems as birds.
