Five Random Facts for Thursday

Here are some random facts for you.

1.  Posthumous marriage (also known as “necrogamy” or “ghost marriage”) is a marriage where at least one of the people is DEAD.  It’s very rare, but it is technically legal in a few countries, including France, China, and in certain areas of India, Japan, and Africa.

2.  During the auditions for “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”Keanu Reeves originally auditioned to play Bill and Alex Winter auditioned to play Ted.  Their parts were switched AFTER casting.

3.  The country of Montenegro isn’t part of the European Union, but it uses the Euro anyway because it doesn’t have its own currency.

4.  Heath Ledger was a chess prodigy as a kid and won the Western Australia junior chess championship when he was 10.

5.  The first time a human was killed by a robot happened in 1979, when an employee at a Ford plant in Michigan got hit in the head by a robot’s arm on the production line.

 

(Wikipedia / Mental Floss / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Guinness World Records)