Lucky Spin

Getting onto ‘Jeopardy!’ is no easy feat. There is a better chance of writing a ‘New York Times’ bestseller (one in 220) than competing on the show (0.4% chance). So, unless you’re one of the lucky ones, you might have to start writing that novel before you warm up the buzzer in your hand!

The founders of Google met by chance. Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, was assigned to show Larry Page around the prestigious campus when Page visited to see if he wanted to attend. Page, who was 22 at the time, had just finished earning a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan.

When tornadoes develop over water, they’re called waterspouts. They suck up large quantities of water and whatever is in that water. When the waterspouts travel onto land and the winds decrease, it can rain down fish! Though no known waterspout has ever been powerful enough to pick up sharks, it’s not impossible. So, a shark-nado might just happen one day!