According to The Telegraph, the human body contains close to 0.2 mg of gold.
According to the website Lions, a specialist website dedicated to these wild felines, a tiger's stripes are as unique as human fingerprints.
According to Time Magazine, the longest human pregnancy lasted a total of 375 days.
In 1945, a rooster lived 18 months without a head.
According to the website How Stuff Works, only one half of a dolphin's brain sleeps at a time.
The University of Oxford predates the Aztecs.
According to the website Psychology Today, elephants and chimpanzees can experience similar behavioral patterns to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Goldfish don't have eyelids.
The stomach of a blue whale can be the size of a car.
According to the website Better Health, kissing can cause tooth decay.
It's impossible to sneeze during sleep.
According to the BBC, some chickens are intersex.
According to the website ABC Science, when someone dies, their sense of hearing is the last thing to go.
Male seahorses get pregnant.
In addition to sucking our blood, mosquitoes also urinate on our skin.
Before it was sold to combat tooth decay, Listerine was created as a surgical antiseptic.
Cuba and North Korea are the only countries in the world that don't sell Coca-Cola.
According to Discover Magazine, three days after death, the enzymes used for digestion begin to do the same to the human body.
A Japanese man who survived the sinking of the Titanic was labeled as a coward in his own country, where people said that he should have died alongside other passengers.
Male bees die after breeding.
Leeches have 32 brains.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
According to the website How Stuff Works, much like fingerprints, human tongues also have a unique pattern.
Elephants are pregnant for approximately two years.
According to the BBC, there is a high-speed internet connection at the top of Mount Everest.
According to National Geographic, herrings communicate among themselves through flatulence.
An avocado never ripens on the tree, so farmers can use trees as storage and keep avocados fresh for up to seven months.
Elvis Presley's manager sold "I Hate Elvis" badges as a way to make money off of people who weren't buying his merchandise.
China owns all of the pandas in the world. They rent them out for about $1 million a year.
George Washington served an eggnog-like drink to visitors at Mount Vernon. His recipe included rye whiskey, rum, and sherry.
Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic.
Volvo gave away the 1962 patent for their revolutionary three-point seat belt for free, in order to save lives.
Tsundoku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them.
Ravens in captivity can learn to talk better than parrots.
Bela Lugosi was buried in full Dracula costume—cape and all.
Central Park's lampposts contain a set of four numbers that can help you navigate. The first two tell you the nearest street, and the next two tell you whether you're closer to the east or west side of the park (even numbers signal east, odd signals west).
A teacher wrote of a young Roald Dahl on his school report card: "I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended."
Blood donors in Sweden receive a thank you text when their blood is used.
An estimated 1 million dogs in the U.S. have been named primary beneficiary in their owners' wills.
The Russians showed up 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics in London because they were using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.
In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
In Great Britain and Japan, black cats are perceived as auspicious. In the English Midlands, new brides are given black cats to bless their marriage, and the Japanese believe that black cats are good luck—particularly for single women.
Portland was named by a coin flip. Had the coin landed the other way, the city would be Boston, Oregon.
Sleep literally cleans your brain. During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.
Neil Armstrong's astronaut application arrived a week past the deadline. A friend slipped the tardy form in with the others.
Due to the restaurant's reputation for staying open in extreme weather, the so-called “Waffle House Index” is informally used by FEMA to gauge storm severity.
The first sales pitch for the Nerf ball was “Nerf: You can’t hurt babies or old people!”
The manchineel tree is nicknamed the "Tree of Death" for good reason: Touching it can leave chemical burns on your skin, its fruit is toxic, and its bark—when burned—can cause blindness.
If drivers adhere to the 45 mph speed limit on a strech of Route 66 in New Mexico, the road's rumble strips will play a rendition of "America the Beautiful."
Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears.
Space has a distinct smell: a bouquet of diesel fumes, gunpowder, and barbecue. The aroma is mostly produced by dying stars.
Before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today, Disney considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful.
In 1997 a Louisville woman left actor Charles Bronson all of her money in a handwritten will—a total of about $300,000. She'd never met him; she was just a fan.
Carly Simon's dad is the Simon of Simon and Schuster. He co-founded the company.
Ben & Jerry learned how to make ice cream by taking a $5 correspondence course offered by Penn State. (They decided to split one course.)
After an online vote in 2011, Toyota announced that the official plural of Prius was Prii.
At the 1905 wedding of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, President Teddy Roosevelt gave away the bride.
Tootsie Rolls were added to soldiers' rations in World War II for their durability in all weather conditions.
After OutKast sang "Shake it like a Polaroid picture," Polaroid released a statement: "Shaking or waving can actually damage the image."
Marie Curie remains the only person to earn Nobel prizes in two different sciences.
The Starry Night depicts Vincent Van Gogh's view from the Saint-Paul de Mausole asylum.
The ampersand symbol is formed from the letters in et—the Latin word for "and."
Army ants that misinterpret the scent trails left by other ants will sometimes break from the crowd and march in circles. If enough ants join, they can form massive "death spirals."
A solar eclipse helped end a six-year war in 585 BCE. When the sky suddenly darkened during a battle between the Lydians and the Medes in modern Turkey, soldiers took it as a sign to cease fighting.
Wendy's founder Dave Thomas dropped out of high school but earned his GED in 1993. His GED class voted him Most Likely to Succeed.
Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826—exactly 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures. The average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child.
Bubbles keep your bath water warmer longer.
Scientists have found evidence of take-out restaurants in the remains of Pompeii.
Fried chicken was brought to America by Scottish immigrants.
Peter Durand patented the tin can in 1810. Ezra Warner patented a can opener in 1858. In between, people used chisels and hammers.
There are 71 streets in Atlanta with "Peachtree" in their name.
Goats have rectangular pupils.
The bend in a flamingo's leg isn't a knee—it's an ankle.
One of the world's largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons—a U.S. Navy base near Seattle—is partially defended by trained dolphins.
It's illegal for supermarkets in France to waste food. Supermarkets must either compost or donate unsold or nearly expired goods to charity.
Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
A new baby can cost new parents 750 hours of sleep in the first year.
In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by 2000, Americans would only be working 20 hours a week with seven weeks vacation.
For one day in 1998, Topeka, Kansas, renamed itself "ToPikachu" to mark Pokemon's U.S. debut.
Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for voting in the 1872 election. She never paid the fine.
Canned pumpkin isn't actually pumpkin. Even purees that advertise as "100 percent pumpkin" are actually made of a range of different winter squashes.
The Reese in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is Harry Burnett Reese, a former Hershey employee who created his famous candy in the 1920s.
The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac.
Before he wrote Goosebumps, R.L. Stine wrote the jokes for Bazooka Joe wrappers.
In 1967, the Nigerian Civil War ground to a halt for two days because both sides wanted to watch Pelé play in an exhibition soccer match.
Winston Churchill's mother was born in Brooklyn.
Jim Cummings is the voice of Winnie the Pooh. He calls sick kids in hospitals and chats with them in character.
Before Google launched Gmail, "G-Mail" was the name of a free email service offered by Garfield's website.
In colonial America, lobster wasn't exactly a delicacy. It was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners.
Crayola means "oily chalk." The name combines craie (French for "chalk") and ola (short for "oleaginous," or "oily").
Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.
The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK's assassination.
Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was wrestling champion of his county. He fought in nearly 300 matches and lost only one.
Barcelona is home to hundreds of playgrounds for seniors. The spaces are meant to promote fitness and combat loneliness in elderly citizens.
In Switzerland, it's illegal to own only one guinea pig.
After leaving office, Ronald Reagan was offered the role of Hill Valley's mayor in Back to the Future III.
Relative to their bodies, Chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the dog world.
A banana is a berry.
In 1971, a Dallas man named Mariano Martinez invented the frozen margarita machine. The 26-year-old was inspired by the Slurpee machine at 7-Eleven.
A double rainbow occurs when sunlight is reflected twice inside a raindrop. If you look closely, you can see that the colors of the secondary rainbow appear in reverse order.
Frank Sinatra has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for film, one for music, and one for television.
One April day in 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." Instead they played piano music.
According to the website Lions, a specialist website dedicated to these wild felines, a tiger's stripes are as unique as human fingerprints.
According to Time Magazine, the longest human pregnancy lasted a total of 375 days.
In 1945, a rooster lived 18 months without a head.
According to the website How Stuff Works, only one half of a dolphin's brain sleeps at a time.
The University of Oxford predates the Aztecs.
According to the website Psychology Today, elephants and chimpanzees can experience similar behavioral patterns to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Goldfish don't have eyelids.
The stomach of a blue whale can be the size of a car.
According to the website Better Health, kissing can cause tooth decay.
It's impossible to sneeze during sleep.
According to the BBC, some chickens are intersex.
According to the website ABC Science, when someone dies, their sense of hearing is the last thing to go.
Male seahorses get pregnant.
In addition to sucking our blood, mosquitoes also urinate on our skin.
Before it was sold to combat tooth decay, Listerine was created as a surgical antiseptic.
Cuba and North Korea are the only countries in the world that don't sell Coca-Cola.
According to Discover Magazine, three days after death, the enzymes used for digestion begin to do the same to the human body.
A Japanese man who survived the sinking of the Titanic was labeled as a coward in his own country, where people said that he should have died alongside other passengers.
Male bees die after breeding.
Leeches have 32 brains.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
According to the website How Stuff Works, much like fingerprints, human tongues also have a unique pattern.
Elephants are pregnant for approximately two years.
According to the BBC, there is a high-speed internet connection at the top of Mount Everest.
According to National Geographic, herrings communicate among themselves through flatulence.
An avocado never ripens on the tree, so farmers can use trees as storage and keep avocados fresh for up to seven months.
Elvis Presley's manager sold "I Hate Elvis" badges as a way to make money off of people who weren't buying his merchandise.
China owns all of the pandas in the world. They rent them out for about $1 million a year.
George Washington served an eggnog-like drink to visitors at Mount Vernon. His recipe included rye whiskey, rum, and sherry.
Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic.
Volvo gave away the 1962 patent for their revolutionary three-point seat belt for free, in order to save lives.
Tsundoku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them.
Ravens in captivity can learn to talk better than parrots.
Bela Lugosi was buried in full Dracula costume—cape and all.
Central Park's lampposts contain a set of four numbers that can help you navigate. The first two tell you the nearest street, and the next two tell you whether you're closer to the east or west side of the park (even numbers signal east, odd signals west).
A teacher wrote of a young Roald Dahl on his school report card: "I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended."
Blood donors in Sweden receive a thank you text when their blood is used.
An estimated 1 million dogs in the U.S. have been named primary beneficiary in their owners' wills.
The Russians showed up 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics in London because they were using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.
In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
In Great Britain and Japan, black cats are perceived as auspicious. In the English Midlands, new brides are given black cats to bless their marriage, and the Japanese believe that black cats are good luck—particularly for single women.
Portland was named by a coin flip. Had the coin landed the other way, the city would be Boston, Oregon.
Sleep literally cleans your brain. During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.
Neil Armstrong's astronaut application arrived a week past the deadline. A friend slipped the tardy form in with the others.
Due to the restaurant's reputation for staying open in extreme weather, the so-called “Waffle House Index” is informally used by FEMA to gauge storm severity.
The first sales pitch for the Nerf ball was “Nerf: You can’t hurt babies or old people!”
The manchineel tree is nicknamed the "Tree of Death" for good reason: Touching it can leave chemical burns on your skin, its fruit is toxic, and its bark—when burned—can cause blindness.
If drivers adhere to the 45 mph speed limit on a strech of Route 66 in New Mexico, the road's rumble strips will play a rendition of "America the Beautiful."
Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears.
Space has a distinct smell: a bouquet of diesel fumes, gunpowder, and barbecue. The aroma is mostly produced by dying stars.
Before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today, Disney considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful.
In 1997 a Louisville woman left actor Charles Bronson all of her money in a handwritten will—a total of about $300,000. She'd never met him; she was just a fan.
Carly Simon's dad is the Simon of Simon and Schuster. He co-founded the company.
Ben & Jerry learned how to make ice cream by taking a $5 correspondence course offered by Penn State. (They decided to split one course.)
After an online vote in 2011, Toyota announced that the official plural of Prius was Prii.
At the 1905 wedding of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, President Teddy Roosevelt gave away the bride.
Tootsie Rolls were added to soldiers' rations in World War II for their durability in all weather conditions.
After OutKast sang "Shake it like a Polaroid picture," Polaroid released a statement: "Shaking or waving can actually damage the image."
Marie Curie remains the only person to earn Nobel prizes in two different sciences.
The Starry Night depicts Vincent Van Gogh's view from the Saint-Paul de Mausole asylum.
The ampersand symbol is formed from the letters in et—the Latin word for "and."
Army ants that misinterpret the scent trails left by other ants will sometimes break from the crowd and march in circles. If enough ants join, they can form massive "death spirals."
A solar eclipse helped end a six-year war in 585 BCE. When the sky suddenly darkened during a battle between the Lydians and the Medes in modern Turkey, soldiers took it as a sign to cease fighting.
Wendy's founder Dave Thomas dropped out of high school but earned his GED in 1993. His GED class voted him Most Likely to Succeed.
Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826—exactly 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures. The average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child.
Bubbles keep your bath water warmer longer.
Scientists have found evidence of take-out restaurants in the remains of Pompeii.
Fried chicken was brought to America by Scottish immigrants.
Peter Durand patented the tin can in 1810. Ezra Warner patented a can opener in 1858. In between, people used chisels and hammers.
There are 71 streets in Atlanta with "Peachtree" in their name.
Goats have rectangular pupils.
The bend in a flamingo's leg isn't a knee—it's an ankle.
One of the world's largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons—a U.S. Navy base near Seattle—is partially defended by trained dolphins.
It's illegal for supermarkets in France to waste food. Supermarkets must either compost or donate unsold or nearly expired goods to charity.
Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
A new baby can cost new parents 750 hours of sleep in the first year.
In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by 2000, Americans would only be working 20 hours a week with seven weeks vacation.
For one day in 1998, Topeka, Kansas, renamed itself "ToPikachu" to mark Pokemon's U.S. debut.
Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for voting in the 1872 election. She never paid the fine.
Canned pumpkin isn't actually pumpkin. Even purees that advertise as "100 percent pumpkin" are actually made of a range of different winter squashes.
The Reese in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is Harry Burnett Reese, a former Hershey employee who created his famous candy in the 1920s.
The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac.
Before he wrote Goosebumps, R.L. Stine wrote the jokes for Bazooka Joe wrappers.
In 1967, the Nigerian Civil War ground to a halt for two days because both sides wanted to watch Pelé play in an exhibition soccer match.
Winston Churchill's mother was born in Brooklyn.
Jim Cummings is the voice of Winnie the Pooh. He calls sick kids in hospitals and chats with them in character.
Before Google launched Gmail, "G-Mail" was the name of a free email service offered by Garfield's website.
In colonial America, lobster wasn't exactly a delicacy. It was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners.
Crayola means "oily chalk." The name combines craie (French for "chalk") and ola (short for "oleaginous," or "oily").
Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.
The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK's assassination.
Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was wrestling champion of his county. He fought in nearly 300 matches and lost only one.
Barcelona is home to hundreds of playgrounds for seniors. The spaces are meant to promote fitness and combat loneliness in elderly citizens.
In Switzerland, it's illegal to own only one guinea pig.
After leaving office, Ronald Reagan was offered the role of Hill Valley's mayor in Back to the Future III.
Relative to their bodies, Chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the dog world.
A banana is a berry.
In 1971, a Dallas man named Mariano Martinez invented the frozen margarita machine. The 26-year-old was inspired by the Slurpee machine at 7-Eleven.
A double rainbow occurs when sunlight is reflected twice inside a raindrop. If you look closely, you can see that the colors of the secondary rainbow appear in reverse order.
Frank Sinatra has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for film, one for music, and one for television.
One April day in 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." Instead they played piano music.
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