France once tried to make the day have 10 hours instead of 24!

Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used to refer specifically to French Revolutionary Time.

French Revolutionary Time divides the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds.

This is opposed to the more familiar standard time, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds.

The main advantage of a decimal time system is that, since the base used to divide the time is the same as the one used to represent it, the whole time representation can be handled as a single string. Therefore, it becomes simpler to interpret a timestamp and to perform conversions.

A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody know where it ends up!

If you’ve ever worried that we’ve solved all the mysteries of nature, fear not. Minnesota’s Devil’s Kettle Falls has been puzzling hikers and geologists for generations. At the falls, along Lake Superior’s north shore, a river forks at a rock outcropping.

While one side tumbles down a two-step stone embankment and continues on like a normal waterfall, the other side vanishes into a deep hole and disappears apparently forever.

People have thrown dyes, logs and other things into it and have been unable to find out where all of this stuff along with the water goes. Are you brave enough to go there and try to find out where this pothole leads to?

None of The Beatles Could Read Music

The Beatles are talked about as one of the best bands of all times but surprisingly none of The Beatles could even read music! Although they could play the guitar, and wrote their own lyrics, they never learned how to read music.

They did know the chords and knew where middle C was on a piano. In a 1980 interview with Playboy, John Lennon said: “I think Paul and Ringo stand up with any of the rock musicians. Not technically great — none of us are technical musicians. None of us could read music. None of us can write it. But as pure musicians, as inspired humans to make the noise, they are as good as anybody”

Paul is the only one of The Beatles who attempted to learn how to read music.  He tried to take piano lessons from his girlfriend’s mother but did not have the time or the patience.  None of the others even tried.  

Larry King crashed into John F. Kennedy's car and was asked to vote for him when he ran for president!

Larry King is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodysand ten Cable ACE Awards.

He began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s and became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. He currently hosts Larry King Now on Hulu and a weekly talk show on RT television network.

Something you probably didn’t know about him is that Larry King crashed into John F. Kennedy's car in 1958. JFK said he’d forget the whole thing if King promised to vote for him when he ran for president!

I wonder if he paid his debt.

New Australian passports offer three gender options!

Typically on a government form, there are only two genders listed, either 'male' or 'female'. Throughout the 20th century this was never seen as a problem.

However, with the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) movement, some countries are making an exception for those who have an unknown gender identity.

For example, a person who is born a woman but self identifies as a man will no longer have documentation that says 'F' for 'Female', instead, if he or she chooses, she can have her gender read 'X' for undetermined!

This seems like a trivial and minor change on a passport, but in reality, this change is seen as a massive push for the Transgender community, who are often detained at airports if they don't look like the gender that their passport says!

In the 50s, a white reporter travelled as a black man for 6 weeks. After he published his experiences, he had to move to Mexico!

Journalist John Howard Griffin published his nonfiction book "Black Like Me" in 1961. The book chronicled his experiences while he was disguised as a black man for six weeks.

During that time, Griffin traveled on Greyhound buses and sometimes hitchhiked across the southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

With the help of a doctor, Griffin, a white man, artificially darkened his skin. He did not alter his name, occupation or anything else though.

Griffin chronicled his experiences in a 188 page journal in an effort to document the trials of black people in the south during this particular time period and did experience discrimination.

After the book was published, Griffin received both positive and negative reactions. Many people sent him letters of support for his actions, but he also received a number of threats in his Texas hometown.

He was actually forced to move to Mexico for several years for his safety. In 1964, the film version of "Black Like Me" was produced.

Boring, Oregon and Dull, Scotland became sister cities as a publicity stunt!

Some towns just have the worst names. Boring, Oregon is one of them. Why someone thought that was a good name for a town is beyond me.

Boring is located in Clackamas County off of Route 212 in Oregon. It is a suburb of Portland and has a population of about 8,000 people.

In 2012, Boring joined forces with another badly named town, Dull, Scotland. Dull is located in Perth and Kinross County in Scotland and is rather small. In Gaelic, "dull" means "meadow." Definitely doesn't mean that in English though.

Boring and Dull decided to pair their municipalities as a way to promote tourism in both towns. By playing on their atrocious names, they hoped to generate some awareness and draw visitors to their two towns halfway across the world from one another.