Losing Weight is the most common New Year’s resolution.
A sunset on Mars is blue.
In “Part 1” of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series, there is a scene where Serenity, the ship from Firefly, can be seen flying through the sky.
The smallest possible measurement of length is known as the Planck Length. Anything smaller than this would break everything we understand about physics
The social media website, MySpace, was founded in 2003, and sold for $580 million in 2005. At this time, it was the most visited social networking site in the world, and even surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States!
One of the earliest depictions of dreadlocks dates back to 1600 BC to the Minoan Civilization, one of Europe’s earliest civilizations, who lived in what is now known as Greece.
The most expensive domain name ever sold was cars.com for an astonishing $872.3 million.
Polygamy is the practice of having more than one husband or wife at the same time. Polygyny is where a man is married to more than one woman, and Polyandry is where a woman is married to more than one husband.
As of September 2016, the Giant Panda was downgraded from “endangered” to “vulnerable” on the Global List of Species at Risk of Extinction.
The world’s oldest surviving bank is “Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena”, which was founded in 1472, and is currently Italy’s 3rd largest bank.
The letter Z is the least frequently used letter in written English. It is more common in American English than in British English due to spellings differences.
The cardboard holder that you often get around a takeaway cup of coffee is called a “zarf”.
The logo for the Monster energy drink cans is not an M as most believe, but are claw marks from a monster ripping through the can. In 2014 a YouTube video gained an international audience when they claimed that each segment of the claw mark looks like the Hebrew symbol for the number six, making the logo into 666, the number of the Beast.
The largest pumpkin pie ever baked was in 2005, and weighed 2,020 pounds, or just over 916kg.
The Triangle took nearly 100 years to become a popular orchestral instrument.
The first computer virus ever created was called Creeper, back in 1971. Shortly after this virus was created, Reaper was created as the world’s first anti-virus.
The earliest mention of the mythical creature, the Unicorn, dates back from as far as 2700 BC in Asia, and was described as a creature of great power and wisdom.
The oldest webcam stream online today is The San Francisco FogCam, and has been operational since 1994.
In Japanese legend, it is said that anyone who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted a wish by the gods.
Doggerland is the area of land connecting Great Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea-levels (6500-6200 BC), turning Great Britain into an island.
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