Fun Facts: Amazing Facts Part 7

A single share of Coca-Cola stock that was purchased in 1919 for $40 would be worth $9.8 million today.

In 2012, a stray cat became a seeing eye guide for a blind dog named Terfel and uses its paws to gently lead him around the house.

China is currently constructing the world’s highest and longest glass-bottom bridge. It will be over 1,400 feet long.

In 2013, a 10-year-old boy named Griffin Sanders from Colorado saved his great-grandmother’s life in a speeding vehicle after she fell unconscious. He did this by driving it himself, which he learned by playing Mario Kart.

In 2012, the entire village of Sodeto in Spain won the lottery, except for one man who was never offered a ticket, as those who were selling them forgot to ask him.

Thanks to 3D printing, it is now possible for blind, expectant mothers to have a three-dimensional ultrasound printed for them to sense the image of their unborn child.

There’s a pub in Athlone, Ireland called Sean’s Bar that has been open since 900 AD.

South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin, which is only 2.7 square miles, has produced more gold than any other continent; about 50 thousand tons over 120 years, which is nearly half the gold ever mined.

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