There’s a university in Sweden
where students let out primal screams
at exactly 10pm each night. The
‘Flogsta Scream’ occurs when students
in Uppsala’s Flogsta neighborhood keep
up tradition by stopping what they’re
doing at precisely 10pm and
collectively screaming from their
windows, balconies, and rooftops to
help blow off steam and ease the
stresses of college life. SourceSource 2
Apparently the dude who started Netflix did so cuz he got a $40 late fee from Blockbuster and was pissed
pettiness is the greatest motivation in the world.
In 1888, Almon Brown Stronger, an undertaker, noticed he was losing a lot of business to the other undertaker in his town. He found out that the other undertaker’s wife was a telephone operator. When she intercepted people asking to be connected to Stronger’s funeral home, the operator would route the call to her husband’s funeral home instead.
Three years later,
Stronger patented the automatic telephone exchange, a system which allowed telephone users to make calls without the need for human operators.
