While dinosaurs roamed the earth, they lived on every continent including Antarctica.
The blue whale’s heart is the size of a VW Beetle and weighs up to 1,000 lbs (453 kg).
One of the most widely used symbols for medical assistance is actually the Swiss flag, and not a medical symbol.
Until 2007, slavery was legal in Mauritania. Even still, 1-4% of the population is still living as slaves.
A man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy’s in 2005.
The longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386, and still stands today.
Before finally being accepted, J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter pitch was rejected by 12 publishers.
The Japanese term for a Shotgun Wedding is “Dekichatta kekkon”, which literally translates to “oops-we-did-it-marriage”.
Garlic is known to attract leeches.
In 1992, a shipping crate containing 28,000 rubber duckies fell overboard. They washed up around the world for the next 20 years.
After the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage tripled in the United States.
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot let his kids fly the plane, who unknowingly disengaged the autopilot function. The crash killed everyone on board.
It takes Uranus 84 years to orbit the Sun once.
A 26 sided shape is known as a rhombicuboctahedron.
Mob boss Vincent Gigante used to wander around New York in his bath robe to convince the police he was insane and avoid capture.
The military has used silly string to detect trip wires in Iraq. Before entering a room, they can squirt it inside. If it hangs in the air, it may have revealed a wire.
By applying even pressure on an egg, it is nearly impossible to break the shell by squeezing it.
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest. The last case of smallpox was in 1977, and the last of rinderpest was in 2001.
A recently discovered deep sea snail, the Scaly-Food Gastropod, has a shell that is impressively developed. So much so, that the U.S. military is trying to use its design to inspire defensive layers in military armor.
There are over 6,000 known species of grass.
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