Eat an orange before working out. Not only does it keep you hydrated, but it also prevents your muscles from getting sore.

One million seconds = 11 days

One billion seconds = 32 years

One trillion seconds = 31,710 years

The first seat belt was invented by George Cayley to keep passengers secure in his glider in the 1800s. 

Ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra claimed pickles made her beautiful.

A Study found that Chocolate Milk performs better than Energy Drinks.

Younger siblings tend to think they’re funnier than their older siblings

Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin developed the modern three-point seat belt for Volvo, which became standard in vehicles starting in 1959

The Department of Agriculture estimates that the average American eats 8.5 lbs of pickles a year.

20% of the population has cheek-dimples.

The ‘high five’ wasn’t invented until the 1970s

Nash was the first American car manufacturer to offer seat belts as a factory option in 1949, and by 1966, the U.S. Highway Safety Act required all new cars to have them. 

Pickles have been around since ancient times. Some believe the first pickle was created in Mesopotamia in 2400 B.C.E. Others believe it was as early as 2030 B.C.E.

At the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the credits say, “No dragons were harmed in the making of this movie.”

You begin forming your strongest musical memories around the age of 14

Wearing a seat belt reduces the risk of fatal injury by about 45% and moderate to critical injury by 50%. 

The phrase “in a pickle” was first introduced by Shakespeare in his play, The Tempest. The quotes read, “How cam’st thou in this pickle?” and “I have been in such a pickle.”

In a room of 23 people, there’s more than a 50% chance that two people share the same birthday. It is what's known as the Birthday Paradox.

Drinking coffee may lower your risk of depression

Not wearing a seat belt makes you 30 times more likely to be ejected from a vehicle during a crash, and over 75% of those ejected do not survive. 

If it weren’t for pickles, Christopher Columbus might never have “discovered” America. In his famous 1492 voyage, Columbus rationed pickles to his sailors to keep them from getting scurvy. He even grew cucumbers during a pitstop in Haiti to restock for the rest of the voyage.

Squeezing a man's testicles can kill him, due to the release of too much adrenaline.

Airbags are designed to work with seat belts, not replace them. If you are not wearing a seat belt, the force of a deploying airbag can cause severe injury or death. 

Sweet pickles are made by soaking dill pickles in strong kool-aid and are very popular in parts of Mississippi.

A snail can sleep for three years.

If your car breaks down and you need to move it, you can extend the seat belt, close the door, and loop the belt over your shoulder to help push the vehicle while still steering.

You can hear the crunch of a good pickle at 10 paces.

Killing a dolphin in ancient Greece was considered sacrilegious and was punishable by death.

When buying a used car, pull the seat belt all the way out and inspect the end. Signs of mold or mud could indicate the car was in a flood. Comparing the seat belt's production date with the car's manufacturing date on the door frame can reveal if the car has been in an accident.

Napoleon was also a big fan of pickles. In fact, he put up the equivalent of $250,000 as a prize to whoever could figure out the best way to pickle and preserve foods for his troops.

Women are more influenced by how a man smells rather than how he looks.

The seat belt buckle can be used as a tool to break a car window to escape if you are trapped inside. 

In Connecticut in order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.

Stars don't appear to be moving, but they are actually traveling roughly 1,000 times faster than the fastest spacecraft that's ever flown.

The majority of pickle factories in America ferment their pickles in outdoor vats without lids leaving them subject to insects and bird droppings! But there’s a reason. According to food scientists, the sun’s direct rays prevent yeast and molds from growing in the brine.

A Russian man once drank 3 bottles of vodka. He then jumped out of a 5 story window, walked back up, and jumped again.

In the Pacific Islands, natives pickle their foods in holes in the ground lined with banana leaves, and use them as food reserves in case of storms. The pickles are so valuable that they’ve become part of the courting process, helping a man prove he’ll be able to provide for a woman. In Fiji, guys can’t get a girl without first showing her parents his pickle pits.

Albert Einstein's last words were spoken in German to a nurse who didn't speak German and so couldn't recall what was said.

Old-time picklers couldn’t accurately measure the salt needed for making pickle brines, since the density of commercially bought salt varied from year to year. To get around this potential problem—too little or too much salt can cause pickles to spoil—many recipes recommended using “enough salt to float an egg” in the brine. While this method yielded fermented pickles that could keep all winter, they were too salty to be eaten. Picklers had to soak the pickles in water for days to make them edible.

Sweet potato ranks Number One in nutrition of all vegetables.

Pickling vegetables not only improves their flavor, it can also make them more nutritious and easier to digest. During fermentation, bacteria produce vitamins as they digest vegetable matter.

Bologna sausage, also known as baloney or polony, is a sausage derived from and somewhat similar to the Italian mortadella.

1926 - Harry Houdini makes his last performance.

You spend roughly 10% of your waking hours with your eyes closed as a result of blinking.

The bite of a grizzly bear is strong enough to crush a bowling ball.

1931 - Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.

Mortadella dates back to the 15th century, and the original recipes included myrtle, ‘mortella’ in Italian, hence the name.

Octopuses have three hearts.

The generation that invented the Internet, the smartphone and the iPad all played outside as children.

1938 - The U.S. makes child labor in factories illegal.

U.S. government regulations require American bologna to be finely ground, and without visible pieces of lard.

Although they don’t have brains, jellyfish still need to sleep Sometimes they even struggle to wake up

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them

1940 - Minimum wage is set for $0.30 for a 44 hour work week.

Bologna can alternatively be made out of chicken, turkey, beef, pork, venison or soy protein.

It would take you about 30 years to count to 1 billion

Abulia is the inability to make decisions.

1949 - The first brick for the UN Headquarters in NY is laid.

There are 1,632 people in the U.S. listed on whitepages.com with the last name ‘Bologna’ and 88 with the last name ‘Baloney’

The average person falls asleep in about 10 to 20 minutes

More than 1 in 5 teenagers experience some level of depression during their teens.

Americans eat 800 million pounds of bologna annually.

Forgetfulness can be a sign of an efficient brain If a specific piece of information seems insignificant—like the name of a new acquaintance—it’s more likely to be forgotten.Blowing out candles on birthday cakes results in roughly 3000 bacteria capable of forming colonies on the cake.

Oscar Mayer is the most popular bologna brand thanks to its 1973 jingle “My bologna has a first name….”

We tend to perceive familiar routes as taking less time than unfamiliar or less-traveled ones — it’s called the “Well-Traveled Road Effect”

Pablo Escobar cheated at Monopoly with his kids, hiding money ahead of time where he planned to sit.

Bologna is a popular breakfast food in Newfoundland, served fried as a substitute to ham slices. It is also sometimes barbecued as well. In either case, it is referred to as “Newfie Steak.”

Your brain begins to shrink when you’re in your 30s/40s.

A sheep and a goat can mate to produce a hybrid. It's called a 'Geep’

Brain scans have shown that we do not experience the world continuously, but in rapid snapshots

Leonardo DaVinci used to buy caged animals from the market just so that he could set them free.

Your brain makes decisions for you seconds before you realize you’re making a decision

The next few facts are tongue twisters: “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

Not one engineer survived when the Titanic sank. They stayed on board to keep the power going so other passengers could escape.

Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Leonardo DiCaprio were all offered the part of Neo in The Matrix before Keanu Reeves.

Tupac never won a Grammy, and actually received more awards after his death.

The English word "minion" comes from the French word "mignon," which means “cute.”

Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous until the early 19th century. Back in the 1700s, people deemed tomatoes "poison apples."

Video games train the human brain to make faster real life decisions.

Women have twice as many pain receptors on their bodies than men. But, a much higher pain tolerance.

Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the world without a river.

Studies show that bad oral hygiene can lead to dementia, lung infection, and stroke - so brush your teeth.

Lamborghini cars were invented when the Lamborghini tractor company was insulted by the creator of Ferrari.

Pyramids are not just for pharaohs apparently, as there are over 20 extravagant pyramid mausoleums built in the U.S.

The word "jizz" is used to refer to the "overall impression or appearance of a bird" which leads to sentences in bird watching books like "The soaring jizz is quite majestic."

Before she landed the role in the 'High School Musical,' Vanessa Hudgens said she considered auditioning for American Idol. She turned 30 today!

Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.

After tourists began leaving bras on a fence in rural New Zealand, the trend caught on making the "Cardrona Bra Fence" a popular tourist attraction.

The average 18-year-old is only about halfway done with "mental puberty."

The largest and oldest known chestnut tree in the world is called Hundred Horse Chestnut, and is said to be about 4,000 years old.

When Mr Rogers heard his limo driver was going to be waiting outside while Rogers was in a meeting, he asked the driver to come in. On the way back they passed the driver's home and Rogers asked if they could stop and meet his family. Rogers kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.

If a Qtips breaks off inside your ear canal, it can lead to fatal otogenic meningitis and brain abscess.

There is a pill called "Father Christmas" that makes your farts smell like chocolate.

43 years ago today, 'Saturday Night Live' used a 5-second broadcast delay for the very first time during their seventh episode hosted by comedian Richard Pryor.

Frank Zappa was a futurist who was enthusiastic for the possibility of holographic imagery. So much so that he recorded footage of himself in the early 70s with the intention to be used when technology got to that point. A Frank Zappa holographic tour using that footage starts next year.

The assassin bug wears the corpses of its prey as camouflage.

In 2010, a goat farmer discovered that his goats produced more milk while listening to "All I Want for Christmas is You," by Mariah Carey.

The 'Rat Pack' never actually called themselves by that name. They referred to their group as 'The Summit.'

In Hinduism, atheism is considered to be a valid path to spirituality, as it can be argued that God can manifest in several forms with "no form" being one of them.

People plotting revenge experience heightened activity in the brain's reward center, according to a 2004 study in the journal Science.

While less than 10% of the general population is left-handed, about 20% of all identical twin pairs have one right-handed twin and one left-handed twin.

Cartoonist Thomas Nast was the first to publish the modern idea of Santa Claus in an 1863 issue of Harper’s Weekly.

Peter Weir wanted to have cameras installed in behind every theater showing ‘The Truman Show’ and have the projectionist cut the power at some point during the film, cut to the viewers so they'd be watching themselves, and then cut back to the movie.

Studies show that napping at work can boost your productivity.

Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually.

Hawaii King David Kalakaua was the first reigning monarch to visit the U.S. and was also the first king to attend the very first White House state dinner hosted by Ulysses S. Grant.

An orangutan named Ken who escaped from his enclosure at the San Diego Zoo multiple times in the 80's. His apparent goals were visiting other animals, throwing rocks at a despised orangutan rival and taking photos with tourists.

Roses taken to space have more "floral rose aroma" than the same roses on Earth, according to a 1998 experiment by NASA.

Even after dying and being cooked, squid will try to impregnate anything they can; including the mouth of the person eating them.

Poinsettias are actually not poisonous. You would have to eat at least 500 leaves for it to have any harmful effects.

While waiting for his audition for 'The Office', John Krasinski was telling someone about how he was worried the producers were going to screw the show up because of how great the British version is. The person he was talking to was Greg Daniels, the show’s executive producer.

On April 28, 1996, a gunman opened fire on tourists at an Australian resort, killing 35 people and wounding 23 more. Australia enacted strict gun laws and have had no mass shootings since.

A study found that women can increase their chances of being approached by a man if her arms are uncrossed, she makes subtle eye contact and smiles.

Historians believe Queen Elizabeth I made the first gingerbread man. She had them made to look like visiting dignitaries and then served them to the dignitaries as gifts.

After Michael Jackson's hair caught fire in 1984 he founded a burn center. “I wanted to do something because I was so moved by the other burn patients I met...” He suffered painful burns, but hospital staff remember him spending much of his time visiting and comforting other patients.

A soldier of the Indian Army once fought off 40 train robbers with a knife, killing 3 and injuring 8 to save a girl from getting raped.

Researchers found that taking the underarm sweat from a man and putting it on a woman's lips can improve her mood and regulate her menstrual cycle.

Every December 25th, a village in Peru hosts a festival called Takanakuy, which consists of dancing and people fighting each other to settle disputes.

Alcohol doesn't make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories.

There is a German man who was born in 1905 (when Germany was still ruled by Emperors), was 12 at the end of WWI, 40 at the end of WWII, 84 at the fall of the Berlin Wall, and is still alive at 113 years old.

Being able to respond with sarcastic wit within seconds of being asked a silly question is a sign of an efficient brain.

If you ate Ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for an entire year, it would cost you about $143 total.

Former Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke had a serious accident at 17. This near-death experience acted as his catharsis, driving him to make the most of his talents and not let his abilities go to waste. Later he set a world record by drinking 1.4 liters of beer in 11 seconds.

"Imposter Syndrome" is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud."

The first 250 printed copies of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' contained a penis illustration that led to a recall and reprint. It is unknown who drew it on there in the first place.

Charles Manson tried out Scientology and subsequently declared it as "too crazy."

Pineapple isn't just one fruit, but rather "multiple fruits consisting of coalesced berries."

France adopted the metric system 219 years ago. It was the first country to do so.

Smoky the Yorkie, a pet dog to soldiers in the south pacific, weighing 4lbs, who kept operational 40 United States fighters by running a wire tied to her collar through a 6in pipe, completing a 3 day construction job in minutes. Also had 10 recognized combat flights, 8 combat stars.

People born during the winter have a higher risk of developing mental disorders later in life.

President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

R. Lee Ermey did such a stellar job with his performance in Stanley Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket,' that he only needed 2 or 3 takes to get his scenes right. This was extremely rare for Kubrick who, as a perfectionist, was known to do well over 100 takes for his scenes.

Electricity was first installed in the White House in 1891. It was such a new concept that President Benjamin Harrison and his wife both refused to touch light switches due to their fear of electrocution so the White House staff had to follow them around and turn the lights off and on for them.

In 2008, two pygmy whales (a mother and her calf) got stranded on a beach and were unable to navigate past a series of sandbanks to get to the ocean. A dolphin came to their rescue; guiding the whales 200 yards along the shoreline and out through a channel into the open sea.

Japanese Princess Aiko decided to stay home for a few months in 2010 due to bullying from her classmates.

The most children a woman has given birth to at once is a massive 6 children!

In ancient Hawai’i, men and women ate meals separately and women weren't allowed to eat certain foods. King Kamehameha II removed all religious laws that and performed a symbolic act by eating with the women in 1819. This is when the luau parties were first created.

Many printer companies implement programmed obsolescence by installing chips into ink cartridges that force them to stop printing after a certain time, even if there's ink left. A researcher once overrode the system and printed 38% more pages, although the cartridge was "empty."

2.9 million breast cancer survivors are alive in the U.S. today.The average man earns$2,129,540 earned in a lifetime.

Japan is giving its elderly population discounts on ramen if they give up their drivers licenses.

Notre Dame Cathedral kept beehives on the church's roof to help preserve the bee population. Luckily, the hives that 180,000 bees call home survived the fire.

George Washington is also known as the "Father of the American Foxhound," and kept more than 30 of the dogsThere are an estimated 2.2 billion children in the world today.

Stephen King would do so much cocaine he had to stuff cotton up his nose to stop blood from dripping on his typewriter.

Women get a better night's rest when they're sleeping next to do dogs as opposed to men, according to researchers from Canisius College.

As a war correspondent during the Boer War, Winston Churchill was paid £10k a month in today's money.

The first ever television broadcast - The man with the flower in his mouth.

Cards Against Humanity joked about how they could have bought a small private island with the money they donated to charity. So in 2014 they did, renaming it “Hawaii 2”

Paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren, who was the inspiration for the horror movie "The Conjuring," has died today at the age of 92.

Many farmers use llamas to guard their livestock from predators.

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who at 21.5 inches is the world’s smallest man.

Karen Silkwood, a nuclear plant worker and whistleblower. On November 13, 1974, she set out to meet a reporter to go public with evidence of extensive safety violations. She was later found dead; her car appeared to have been run off the road and the documents she had with her were missing.

The Greek language has 4 words for love: Agape: charitable love; Eros: sexual love; Philia: love between friends; and Storge: family love.

Worldwide, people consume 500 extra calories a day from sugar, which is roughly the amount of calories needed to gain a pound a week.

A 44in Great Dane called Zeus is the world’s tallest dog.

In an attempt to enforce Prohibition, the Prohibition Bureau began adding poison to industrial alcohol to prevent its consumption, killing between 10,000 and 50,000 people. This was supported by people like Wayne Wheeler, who argued that the victims had committed suicide by breaking the law.

In 1946, a man claiming to be a detective gave a woman a camera and asked her to take a picture of a suspect. The "detective" was really a gangster, and the "suspect" was his ex-wife. The "camera" was a concealed gun, and when the woman took the photo, she actually shot her.

The French military actually has the best military record in Europe. Out of 168 battles fought since 387BC, they have won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10.

Robert Wadlow is the world's tallest man at 8 feet 11 inches.

Doug Hegdahl, a POW during the Vietnam War, who memorized the names, dates of capture, method of capture and personal details of 256 fellow POWs to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had A Farm." He can still recite it to this day.

Dwight's cousin Mose in "The Office" was played by Michael Schur, who was actually a producer of the show. Schur was also a creator of Parks and Recreation, The Good Place, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Rats and mice alone eat or spoil 20 percent of the world's food supply.

There Are 196 Countries in the World.

50 Cent once bought 200 front row seats to a Ja Rule concert just to leave them empty.

Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, was very frugal. He would often take the salt and pepper packets at restaurants, reuse teabags, and drove a Volvo from 1993. He was worth $58.7 billion when he died.

The historical Buddha was not obese. The "chubby Buddha" or "laughing Buddha" is a 10th-century Chinese folk hero by the name of Budai.

The average man is 5 inches taller than the average woman.

In 1989 96 people were killed at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England after they were crushed due to overcrowding. Although match attendees and hooliganism were first cited as the cause, a 2016 inquiry found the police to be at fault due to their mismanagement of the crowd.

The Count from "Sesame Street" doesn't count only to teach children numbers. In folklore, vampires had arithmomania (an obsession with numbers). Old myth states that rice and poppy seeds are harmful to vampires because they'll have to stop and count them all.

Stalin's granddaughter lives in Portland, Oregon, where she sells antiques, vintage clothes, and scented candles.

The oldest woman alive is dina manfridini at 115years old from the united states.

That Japanese vending machines are operated to dispense drinking water free of charge when the water supply gets cut off during a disaster..Lonnie Johnson, the inventor of the Super Soaker and Nerf Gun, was a nuclear engineer. He had a Ph.D. and was a former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist.

New Zealand's two main islands (the North Island and the South Island) had no official names until 2009.

Japan is making all of its medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics out of discarded electronics.

Many of the "rational" decisions we believe we're making aren't truly rational due to the "Sunk Cost Fallacy." When decisions are tainted by emotional investments, we overestimate the value of what it is we should abandon.

Up until the early 1800s, dentures were primarily made from the teeth of dead soldiers.

Dolly Parton has given away more than 100 million books to young children through her Imagination Library. This was inspired by her father, who couldn’t read, and she wanted to make sure all kids have early access to books.

In 1962 two US scientists discovered Peru's highest mountain was in danger of collapsing. When this was made public, the government threatened the scientists and banned civilians from speaking of it. In 1970, during a major earthquake, it collapsed on the town of Yangoy killing 20,000.

Brass doorknobs (or any other brass objects) sterilize themselves after about 8h since bacteria have a hard time surviving on brass. This is called the Oligodynamic Effect.

Two men from Indiana were wrongfully convicted in a 1996 armed robbery because of a false statement from an informant who had sex with the lead detective who set them up. 20 years later, they were found innocent and one of them received $4.9 Million settlement.

A woman in Mexico named Ines Ramirez performed a C-section on herself after hours of painful contractions. Fearing that her baby would be stillborn, she drank 2 cups of high-proof alcohol and used a kitchen knife to make the incision. Both the mother and the baby survived.

The smallest bird in the world is the bee hummingbird. The bird is 2.24 inches long.

It only took 72 hours for New Zealand to ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines after the Christchurch terrorist attacks.

The measles virus erases the immune system's memory, leaving patients vulnerable to other infectious diseases for up to 3 years afterward.

When Lawrence Anthony, known as "The Elephant Whisperer", passed away. A herd of elephants arrived at his house in South Africa to mourn him. Although the elephants were not alerted to the event, they travelled to his house and stood around for two days, and then dispersed.

The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."

Emilia Clarke survived two life-threatening aneurysms and invasive brain surgeries while filming Game of Thrones.

In 2010, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett signed the "Giving Pledge," promising to give half of their wealth to philanthropy, either during their lifetime or upon their death. Over 150 signers have joined since.

Daniel Radcliffe is a recovering alcoholic and would sometimes go to set for Harry Potter still drunk from the night before.

Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.

Jessica Simpson developed an addiction to nicotine because she thought Nicorette was regular gum.

Having no friends could be as deadly as smoking, a Harvard University study suggested. There's a link between loneliness and the levels of a blood-clotting protein which can cause heart attacks and stroke.

Rapper J. Cole graduated high school with a 4.2 GPA, accepted a scholarship to St. Johns University, was the president of a pan-African student coalition in college, and graduated with a magna cum laude in communication and business.

Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving

Whitney Houston's famous version of "I Will Always Love You" is a recording of the first time she ever sang it.

In 2016, a 10-year-old Finnish boy was given $10,000 by Facebook for finding an Instagram bug that allowed him to delete other user's comments.

Benjamin Franklin effect that causes people to like someone more after doing them a favor. When Franklin asked his rival for a rare book and returned it with a note of thanks, Franklin’s rival spoke to him with great civility and offered help, leading the two men to become good friends.

The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel.

Winnie the Pooh's first name is actually Edward.

A bidet is considered a key green technology and uses significantly less water, electricity, and wood than a single roll of toilet paper.

Of the 5000 or so species of mammals on the planet only female humans have permanent breasts.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

A group of butterflies is called a "kaleidoscope."

Libya's flag from 1977 to 2011 was the only national flag in the world with just one color and no design, insignia, or other details: green.

In 2008 and at the age of 45, Flea, bass player of the multiplatinum rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, enrolled as a freshman at University of Southern California's music program to learn the academic side of music.

During World War II, Kit Kat was unavailable due to milk shortages, so the chocolate bar was made without milk.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are not identical twins. They're fraternal twins.

The Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy was the largest in history, and also the most lucrative one for lawyers and consultants, who made US$1.6 billion.

Comedian Ryan Stiles from Whose Line is it Anyway? Has been a frequent fund raiser for children with burn injuries, raising over $500,000 for the Burned Children Recovery Center since 2009, helping the foundation to recover from the economy crash of 2008.

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

Some people can create goosebumps at will. This is called “voluntary piloerection.”

McDonald's was supposed to revamp the Golden Arches in 1960 but a psychologist argued to keep them in the form of the "M" because it resembled breasts.

The IT guy from "what we do in the shadows", is in fact an IT guy named Stu in real life. He thought he was on set to help with IT related tasks and had no idea how big his part in the movie was until filming was almost wrapped.

The first automobile racetrack in America was the 'Indianapolis Motor Speedway,' which had 3 million cobblestones.

North Korea is technically the world’s only necrocracy. A government that still operates under the rules of a former, dead leader.

The U.S. private prison industry makes money by contracting cheap labor to private companies such as Starbucks, Boeing, Victoria's Secret, McDonalds and even the U.S. military.

The piano Freddie Mercury used to record "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the same one Paul McCartney used on "Hey Jude."

Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mold factories.

There are more than 18,000 known species of birds that belong to the group 'Dinosauria.' A group that includes extinct dinosaurs and their living descendants.

In 2016, the World Health Organization spent more on travel than to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

When a poacher’s snare killed one of their own, two young gorillas teamed up to find and dismantle traps in their Rwandan forest home. They saw what they had to do, they did it then moved to dismantle next trap.

Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

The word "dinosaur" was derived from Ancient Greek terms meaning "terrible lizard."

If you bought $100 worth of Bitcoin in 2010, you'd have $75 million by May, 2017.

Wilma Rudolph had polio as an infant and was unable to walk properly until she was 11. For several years, her family had to massage her legs four times a day, and she had to wear a metal brace. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in an Olympic event.

Si Kaddour Benghabrit, the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris who helped over 500 Jews disguise themselves as Muslims by making the administrative staff grant them certificates of Muslim identity, which allowed them to avoid arrest and deportation.

Kirsty MacColl, vocalist and female singer in "Fairytale of New York", died saving her son from an oncoming powerboat owned by a multimillionaire while vacationing in Cozumel, Mexico. The boat's driver escaped jail time by paying a fine of $90USD.

There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females

Stevie Wonder's first name is actually Stevland.

All new FBI agents are required to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The film The Shawshank Redemption remains one of the most valuable assets in Warner Brother’s catalog (which has several multi-billion dollar movie franchises) and Bob Gunton (the warden) still makes six figures a year from it.

Oreo the Raccoon, the real-life model for Rocket from 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' has passed away at the age of 10.

Barack Obama and Brad Pitt are ninth cousins.

A woman named Glenda Blackwell brought a scratch off lottery ticket to prove to her husband that buying lottery tickets was a waster of money and accidentally ended up winning $1 million.

Regularly eating cheese can be a key factor in helping you live longer.

Hawaii Is Currently Growing Avocados The Size Of A Newborns.

In 2007 a thief drove a $280,000 Porsche through the glass window of a Malaysian luxury car showroom. The car was abandoned nearby, its fuel tank empty. The thief kept the keys and returned with a can of gas to the police station where the car was impounded, stealing the vehicle a second time.

February 9th is National Pizza Day.... Start looking up some free pizza options for tomorrow.

Black and White Americans use drugs at almost identical rates, but black people are 3 times for likely to be arrested for it.

Kelly Clarkson didn't want to win American Idol because the winner was contractually bound to make a musical rom com.

Heartbreak can literally kill you. People who struggle to overcome the grief caused by losing a loved one are at higher risk of suffering from potentially deadly levels of inflammation.

If you're 18 years old, you have about 3,300 weekends left in your lifetime -- You also only have about 57 summers left.

A 1996 federal law allows restaurants to donate leftover food without getting sued, and that nobody has ever filed a lawsuit against a restaurant over donated leftovers.

A team of epidemiologists from Boston Children’s Hospital and the University of Toronto has found that as temperatures rise, bacteria become more resistant to antibiotics.

Construction workers in Brazil cemented a car on a pavement after its driver refused to move it.

The robbery of the Federal Reserve in Die Hard with a Vengeance is so plausible that the FBI actually questioned the screenwriter on how he had such intimate knowledge of the vaults.

IKEA Canada is launching a new refugee employment program. The company will employ hundreds of refugees from across the country over the next three years.

Bob Marley was buried with his red Gibson guitar, a bible open to Psalms 23, and a bud of marijuana.

Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way (down to the molecular level). An analysis revealed that 200 genes had independently changed in the same ways. This is an extreme example of convergent evolution.

There's a micro-generation called "Xennials." The term is used to describe those born between 1977 and 1985 who grew up with an analog childhood but live in a digital adulthood.

·Daniel Radcliffe’s parents allowed him to stay up an extra half hour as celebration when he found out he'd gotten the part of Harry Potter.

A man was cured of HIV in 2007 with a bone marrow transplant from someone with genes resistant to HIV. He's the first person to ever be cured.

"Hit Me Baby One More Time" was written by a Swede who meant the chorus to mean "hit me up on the phone one more time" but mistranslated it.

Coca Cola has just launched its first new flavor in more than ten years. Orange Vanilla Coca Cola.

A sapiosexual is a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence in others.

In 2015 a Canadian man broke into a home,fed the cats and horses,cooked a meal,did the laundry,wrote in the homeowners diary and was apprehended sitting by a stoked fire while drinking a cup of tea.

Cases of anxiety, depression, and panic attacks are all on the rise among college students.

You're 100 times more likely to be bitten by another human in New York City than you are to be bitten by a shark at the beach.

An episode of The Simpsons titled "Lisa The Greek" correctly predicted the outcome of that year's Super Bowl in 1992 just three days later. When the episode was rebroadcast in '93 and '95 it was redubbed and again predicted the winners.

Billy McFarland and Ja Rule have just lost a $3 million lawsuit to an investment company that was bamboozled when their Fyre Festival went down in flames.

If you're 30 years old or younger, there hasn't been a single month in your entire life that was colder than average, due to global warming.

Because ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ was filmed on a microscopic budget of $60,000, the cast and crew had to work 7 days a week, 12-16 hours a day in 115°F heat in a poorly ventilated farmhouse amid rotting roadkill being used as props to finish the film.

'SpongeBob Squarepants' is so old, the show now airs on Nick at Nite along with 'Full House,' and 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

At some point, you will be the next person on Earth to die.

Priest Joseph Müller told a joke of a dying German soldier who asked to see people for whom he was laying down his life. The nurse laid a portrait of Hitler and Göring next to him. The soldier said "Now I can die like Jesus Christ" [between two criminals]. Müller was executed for the joke.

Häagen-Dazs is debuting a new line of alcohol-infused ice cream.

 The six flavors are: Irish Cream, Brownie Rum, Tres Leches, Bourbon Vanilla Bean, Truffle Stout, Chocolate Pretzel Crunch, Bourbon Praline Pecan, Amaretto Black Cherry, Almond Toffee.

No Egyptian president has left office without being arrested or dying.

The fruit Monstera Deliciosa causes severe throat and skin irritation due to oxalic acid (aka rust cleaner!) unless 100% ripe. Once the green outer scales fall off it's safe to eat and tastes like a mix of pineapple, banana and coconut. The scientific name literally means Delicious Monster.

Redheads have some weird "superpowers" due to their altered genes. For example, they tend to have a higher pain threshold, produce their own vitamin D and can require up to 20% more anesthesia than others.

The man who invented pop-up ads has apologized to the world for creating one of the Internet's most hated forms of advertising.

It used to be illegal for men to be topless and show their nipples until a judge overturned New York State’s male shirtless bans in 1937 following men protesting for their rights to not sexualize their bare chest.

You can get different flavors of OREOS sent to your house every month. OREO offers a monthly subscription through Amazon that includes surprise OREO flavors, one-of-a-kind swag, and recipes to use your OREOs for other treats.

Red wine kills cancer cells.

In light of the violence caused by kids trying to obtain limited Jordan’s, Hakeem Olajuwon released a cheap, $15 shoe and try and end the appeal of expensive shoe wear, stating: “How can a poor working mother with three boys buy Nikes or Reeboks that cost $120?”

About .1% of the US population and .9% of people in the UK have a small hole where the top of their ear cartilage meets their face. Evolutionary biologists theorize this could be an "evolutionary remnant of fish gills."

84% of vegans and vegetarians eventually go back to eating meat.

Geddy Lee’s (lead singer and bassist for Rush) parents met in a Nazi work camp, were both sent to Auschwitz. His father was then sent to Dachau and his mother went to Bergen-Belsen. Both were liberated and eventually reunited.

The doctor who discovered that hand washing prevented the spread of disease was thrown in a mental institution for his crazy ideas.

While a 20 year old Rod Serling was serving in WWII, he saw his best friend killed by a falling crate of food. Seeing the unpredictability and irony of life and death, he would later use that experience to create, 'The Twilight Zone'.

1 out of every 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.

When Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash, his pregnant wife heard the news on television and suffered a miscarriage as a result. Since then, it became policy to notify family of tragedy before names became public.

More species have been named after Barack Obama than any other U.S. president.

The brain enters an "incubation period" when we are in a relaxed state which allows our subconscious mind to bring things to our attention, according to scientists. Which is why when we do things, like take showers, we experience greater problem-solving ability and creativity.

Placebo's work best for women if the pill is blue and best for men if it is orange.

Pink Floyd's The Wall is implied to be an endless loop. The final song, Outside the Wall, ends with the words "Isn't this where...", and the album begins with the words "... we came in?" with a continuation of the melody of the last song, hinting at the cyclical nature of Water's theme.

The Estonian army travels with pop-up saunas.

Australia had a government shutdown once in 1975. In response, Queen Elizabeth II fired their prime minister and everyone in Parliament. Australia had to hold new elections from scratch, and they've never had a shutdown since.

There are only 50 people known to have been born on an aeroplane. The first was in 1927 where the couple purposefully circled at 2000 feet until they gave birth. They called their baby “Airleen”.

Billy West, who does the voice of Philip J. Fry's on Futurama among other characters, intentionally made Fry's voice close to his natural voice as a job security measure because it would be more difficult to replace him.

The Beatles, Garth Brooks and Elvis are the best-selling artists of all-time in the U.S.

In 1984, a woman began to hear voices in her head telling her she had a brain tumor (even telling her where the tumor was). Despite having no symptoms, doctors ordered a scan and found that she did have a tumor. She decided to undergo surgery to have it removed……  After regaining consciousness, she claimed to have heard from the voices one last time when they said “We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye.”

When brainstorming, teams generate 26% more ideas spanning 15% more use categories if they tell an embarrassing story before the brainstorm starts.

Schwarzenegger faked interest in the movie "Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot" to trick Stallone into starring in it. Stallone later called the movie "maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen."

Before he made it big in Hollywood, Johnny Depp was a telemarketer.

On April Fool's Day in 1997, "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek and "Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak swapped shows for the day.

The traditional black and white football is known as the Telstar design and first appeared in 1968. It was named after the Telstar satellite that was spherical and dotted with solar panels.

The star wars theme was written purposely on the same key as the 20th Century Fox fanfare (that used to appear before the movie started) so that there will be a continuous feeling and a smooth entry to the film for the viewers.

Operation Vegetarian was a British military plan during WW2 to disseminate linseed cakes infected with anthrax spores to be eaten by German cattle.

Just days before 'Deadpool' was greenlit by Fox, the studio said they'd have to cut the film's budget by $7 million. As a result, Deadpool had to forget his bag of guns before the final battle, and they had to use 'Angel Dust' instead of the other X-Men.

Prior to 1951, footballs were almost all made from brown leather. They weren’t waterproof and would increase in weight by up to 20% if it rained.

When his eight years as President of the United States ended on January 20, 1953, private citizen Harry Truman took the train home to Independence, Missouri, mingling with other passengers along the way. He had no secret service protection. His only income was an Army pension.

About 1 in every 3 songs recorded by Billy Joel were top 40 hits.

States with higher rates of gun ownership also see higher rates of deaths from mass shootings, according to researchers from Columbia University and New York University.

There are 8 B vitamins. The last one is named B12 because B4 8, 10 and 11 were later removed when they were found not to be true vitamins.

In the 1920's newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told, as a joke, to develop a frosted light bulb. The experienced engineers believed this to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment not realizing it was a joke and succeeded.

The Japanese for ‘handbag' is handubagu.

The FBI planted an informant pretending to be a radical Muslim in a mosque in 2006. The Muslims in the mosque ended up reporting him to the FBI for being an extremist.

Vitamins are named alphabetically based on the sequence they were discovered - except for Vitamin K, which was discovered by Germans and was for coagulation (koagulation) and it’s initial letter stuck.

A supermarket was closed down so that Michael Jackson could fulfill his dream to go to a supermarket and shop like everybody else and experience what it was like to “put things in a basket.” It was populated with his friends and family pretending to be fellow shoppers and employees.

The real "Rich Dad" in the best-selling finance book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" was a Hawaiian hotelier named Richard Wassman Kimi.

A 15-year-old injected himself with mercury at least three times in an attempt to turn his bones into metal after seeing X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In the past, he also allowed himself to be bitten by spiders multiple times because he wanted to become Spider-Man.

Formula 1 teams pay an entry fee each year based on their previous year’s constructors points. In 2019, Mercedes (655 pts) will pay $4,838,348. Williams-Mercedes (7 pts) will pay ‘just’ $584,346.

When J.R.R. Tolkien's son Michael signed up for the British army, he listed his father's occupation as "Wizard."

DNA decays with increasing rapidity in the presence of heat, water, sunlight, and oxygen. Under the most ideal conditions, DNA can theoretically survive for a maximum of one million years.

The vaquita porpoise is the smallest and most endangered porpoise in the world. There are only 22 of them left, and the species could become extinct within months, according to experts.

Apple Inc value has dropped $450 billion in 3 months. To put that in perspective, that’s more than the entire value of Facebook.

Pat Sajak and Vanna White work only 36 days per year. They work 4 days per month for 9 months, filming six episodes of Wheel of Fortune from 12 noon to 6pm. It amounts to a full year’s worth of programming for ABC.

Sitting in a doctor's waiting room office costs the average American about $43.They mutinied, hijacked a bus, and were shot by the army or committed suicide.

Humans are generally capable of detecting their siblings, parents, and children by scent, and females tend to prefer sexual partners with a different smell than their own. Scientists theorize this evolved as a defense against incest.

Yes, IBM is 108 years old this year or 95 depending on your view. It was founded in 1911 as CTR (Computing-Tabulating-Recording) but was renamed IBM (International Business Machines) in 1924.

Ewa Wiśnierska, a german paraglider that got surprised by a thunderstorm and got sucked up by a cumulonimbus cloud to an altitude of 10.000m (33.000ft). She survived temperatures of -50*C and extreme oxygen deprivation at a height higher than the Mt. Everest.

6.7 million people were under correctional supervision during 2015 in the U.S. That's more than were enslaved in antebellum America and more than resided in the Gulag Archipelago at the height of Stalin's rule.

Sitting in a doctor's waiting room office costs the average American about $43.

The term “blockbuster” originated during WW2 and referred to large (usually over 4000lb) bombs that could destroy an entire block. It was later applied to movies that had a dramatic impact.

In 2005, the Republic of Fiji lost it's declaration of independence from Britain. After five long years of searching, Fiji's government finally turned to Britain, who provided them with a photocopy.

More than half of U.S. troops overseas are stationed in just 4 countries: Japan, Germany, South Korea, and Italy.

Classic yellow mustard is one of, if not the, healthiest condiment in the world. It contains no fat, no cholesterol, no carbohydrates, a low amount of sodium, and can actually have some health benefits.

Snapchat lost $1.3 billion in value the day after Kylie Jenner tweeted: "Sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore?"

Conservationists in South Africa have been injecting rhino horns with red dyes and toxins to prevent poaching. The mixture renders the horn completely useless to those trying to sell it commercially and is also toxic for human consumption.

Showman and businessman PT Barnum was frustrated with how long people lingered in his museum’s exhibits. He posted signs that said 'This Way to the Egress'. He knew most of the visitors would follow them not knowing 'Egress' meant 'Exit'. They couldn’t re-enter without paying the entry fee again.

A teenager, Peter Roberts invented a quick-release ratchet. He sold his patent to Sears for $10,000 who said that the invention was not worth very much and then went on to make $44 million selling the ratchet. He sued them for fraud and was awarded $1 million.

A lightning bolt is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

Avalanches of volcanic ash travel at speeds of 10 to 45 mph, which means you could possibly outrun this deadly part of the eruption.

In Denmark, it’s not against the law to escape from prison.

After a 1946 plane crash, Howard Hughes decided he did not like the design of the hospital bed he was laying in. He called in his engineers and had them design a new bed that would allow someone with severe burns to move freely. It became the prototype for the modern hospital bed.

Ryan Gosling was asked to audition to become a member of the Backstreet Boys, but chose to pursue acting instead.

Ten towns designed to get people to exercise more, eat healthily and live independently during old age are going to be built across England.

The paper flag that sticks out the top of a Hershey’s Kiss wrapper is referred to as a “NigglyWiggly.”

Several European countries dealt with their rabies problem by air-dropping vaccinated chicken heads for wild foxes to eat.

In the U.S., you are twice as likely to commit suicide than be murdered by someone else.

There’s now an off-road capable Wiener Rover and a Wienie-Bago in addition to Oscar Mayer's traditional Wienermobile.

There's a swing on the edge of a cliff. It has no safety measures and is called "The Swing at the End of the World."

A dog in Milan regularly catches the No. 54 bus by himself, to visit his favorite spot in the city. He will only get on if it’s the driver that he likes, and once he has reached his destination (a park) he leaps off and wanders around for a few hours before catching the same bus home again.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.

It cost $15 million to build Disneyland's New Orleans Square—the amount the U.S. paid for the real New Orleans in the Louisiana Purchase.

Mozart once composed a piano piece that required the player to use both hands and their nose.

Light Bulb Manufacturers formed a Market Controlling 'Cartel' that disallowed 1000 Hour+ lightbulbs, and threatened legal action to any company who did.

Harrison Ford made $10,000 for A New Hope and $20,000,000 for The Force Awakens.

Government officials in Argentina have banned parents from naming their children after Lionel Messi.

The equations written on Erin Gilbert's whiteboard in the new "Ghostbusters" trailer are scientifically sound conjectures on proton decay.

Starbucks actually spends more on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans.

CVS took a $2 billion hit to annual sales when it quit carrying tobacco.

Researchers found that listening to bass-heavy tunes may have the power to make you feel more confident.

If you're free falling from an airplane in an urban area, land on the roof of an RV or mobile home to increase your chances of survival.

1 out of every 100 people are psychopaths and they look just like everybody else.

Argentina sent a pregnant woman to Antarctica, had her give birth there, and used the baby to reinforce its territorial claims.

Studies suggest that what you're wearing can have a direct effect on how secure and powerful you feel.

Helen Greiner, the co-founder of the company that made the Roomba, went to MIT and got into robotics because she loved R2D2 as a kid.

Humpback whales have been known to form lifelong friendships and visit their pals each year.

18-year-old Joshua Browder created a 'robot lawyer' that allows people to get free, custom-generated legal documents to appeal their wrongly issued parking fines. It's estimated that his service has already saved users $3 million.

Adolf Hitler was addicted to Crystal Meth (back then called "Tank-Chocolates").

The Ukrainian Domino's has released a pie pizza with cherry, cottage cheese, poppy seed, or apple pie fillings inside of a pizza crust.

If you sneeze while driving at 70mph, you will have traveled about 300 feet with your eyes closed.

In order to stand out from competing catalogs, Sears simply printed theirs on smaller paper so when a stack of catalogs were delivered, theirs would always be on top.

A morbidly obese man from Houston, Texas managed to sneak a pistol into a jail by hiding it in his fat folds.

A study found that a man named Robin Gunningham is probably the street artist Banksy, based on geographic profiling of Banksy's artwork.

The farther back you sit on an airplane, the greater your odds of survival in the event of a crash.

1983 blockbuster WarGames (Matthew Broderick) caused President Reagan to ask national security officials if this type of "hacking" was possible; Gen. Vessey replied "The problem is much worse than you think." This influenced national security policy, ARPAnet, & ultimately the modern Internet.

Tall men are more likely to marry women closer to their age, and who are better-educated.

According to the more than 88,000 votes cast, Frosted Flakes is the most popular cereal brand in the world and Farina is the least popular.

All the pandas in the world come from China. When a baby panda is born, by agreement, it is sent back to China via FedEx.

It is impossible for a centipede to have 100 legs. They have one pair of legs per body segment, but always an odd number of body segments, allowing for 98 and 102 legs, but not 100.

Giraffes can't cough, but fish can.

Researchers have found an adorable, ghost-like octopod that is believed to belong to an unknown species and may be part of an unknown genus.

People who get less than 6.9 hours of sleep often have higher blood pressure, eat more, and have slower reaction times.

In 2008, 9-year-old Nathan Thomson was stabbed in the face as he fought an armed intruder who tried to kill his mother, who was stabbed 8 times. After saving his mother from the slasher, he has been recommended for a bravery award by one of Scotland's senior law officers for his heroic act.

Instead of celebrating April Fools, the French celebrate April Fish where they sneak up behind people and tape paper fish to their backs.

In the year 2000, there were 4 reality TV shows on air - By 2010, there were over 320.

The average Canadian is richer than the average American.

There's an organization called "419 Eaters" that is dedicated to wasting the scammers' time by pretending to fall for their scams.

A B-17 gunner put out an ammunition fire during a battle by urinating on it - later earning a Medal of Honor.

·         Mark Henry has the world record for a combined lifts of snatch, clean and jerk, squat, bench press and dead-lifting totaling 3,324.5 lbs all in drug tested competitions.  Making him arguably the strongest man to have ever lived.

·         There will be a 'super blood wolf moon eclipse' on January 21st, 2019. The first full moon of the year will be closest to earth in its orbit, all while a lunar eclipse is happening. It will reach its peak at 12:16 am EST and will last about 3 hours and 17 minutes.

·         A man created a fake restaurant on TripAdvisor and asked around for good reviews. Eventually, the fake restaurant was the #1 restaurant in London, and was being called up 100s of times daily for bookings. For a day, the man set up a “cafe” in his backyard and served frozen food to rave reviews.

·         The color red doesn't really make bulls angry; they are color-blind.

·         The most popular drug around the world is caffeine.

·         During the filming of the Sound of Music, the city of Salzburg refused to allow Nazi flags to be hung off buildings for filming. The director threatened to instead use real newsreel footage of the city enthusiastically greeting Hitler. The city quickly back pedaled and allowed the shot.

·         Playboy has been publishing braille versions of the magazine since 1970, however no pictorial representations are included.

·         Otters have a pouch in their fur to store their favorite rock.

·         Hershey's does not meet the legal minimum cocoa content to be described as chocolate in Britain.

·         Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.

·         Turning off the tap water while brushing your teeth can conserve four gallons of water a minute – 200 gallons a week for a family of four.

·         Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont have banned billboard advertising.

·         Standing around burns calories. On average, a 150 pound person burns 114 calories per hour while standing and doing nothing.

·         In Russia, it's illegal to tell kids gay people exist.

·         Mythbusters got bullied out of airing an episode on how hackable and trackable RFID chips on credit cards are, when credit card companies threatened to boycott their TV network.

·         65% of autistic kids are left-handed, and only 10% of people in general are left-handed.

·         Dancing has been proven to release stress, stabilize one's mood, and even increase self-confidence.

·         In January 2014, seven-year-old Charlotte Benjamin sent a handwritten letter to Lego complaining there were "more Lego boy people and barely any Lego girls". In June 2014, Lego announced a new "Research Institute" collection featuring female scientists which sold out within a week.

·         In 1325, two Italian city states fought over a bucket which resulted in 2,000 deaths. It started when two soldiers stole a bucket from a well from the city center.

·         Pineapples were very expensive in the 1700s, so American colonists would rent a pineapple and carry it around a party to flout their wealth.

·         A cow in Poland escaped on its way to the slaughterhouse, broke through a metal fence, swam to a nearby island, and was allowed to live there after its owner gave up trying to recapture it.

·         A boy was allowed to change his own name when he was 8 years old…  Today, he is Dr. Loki Skylizard.

·         Bob Marley's last words to his son, Ziggy were "Money can't buy life."

·         NYE revelers in Times Square are often locked into place for up to twelve hours and cannot move, so many of them wear adult diapers and the kids just go on the street.

·         The Rock set a new Guinness World record for the most selfies taken in 3 minutes. He took 105 selfies with fans at his movie premiere for San Andreas.

·         Hot water is more likely to break thicker glass than thinner glass.

·         In 1913, a bank was shipped in 50 pound increments through the USPS mail system to save money. 40 tons of bricks ended up being shipped and the USPS released a statement saying “it is not the intent of the United States Postal Service that buildings be shipped through the mail."

·         In Svalbard, a remote Norwegian island, it is illegal to die because bodies are unable to be buried safely due to the permafrost on the ground. If you are about to die, they fly you back to mainland Norway to pass on there.

·         Researchers have found that the average person will form about 400 friendships during a lifetime, but only 33 will last.

·         In 1981 the landlord visited the warehouse of Nintendo of America to collect overdue rent and berated the president, Minoru Arakawa, in front of employees. The new game, Donkey Kong, was about to be released and they changed the character's name to their landlord's name: Mario.

·         An Italian banker, Gilberto Baschiera is considered a modern-day Robin Hood. In 7 years, he's secretly diverted 1 million euros to poorer clients from the wealthy ones so they could qualify for loans. He made no profit and avoided jail in 2018 due to a plea bargain.

·         15% of iPhone users use an iPhone with a broken screen.

·         In 2009 identical twins Hassan and Abbas O. were suspects in a $6.8 million jewelry heist. DNA matching the twins was found but they had to be released citing "we can deduce that at least one of the brothers took part in the crime, but it has not been possible to determine which one."

·         While Apple was building a huge data center in the middle of North Carolina, they wanted to occupy the area of a couple that lived there for 34 years. When the couple refused to leave, Apple paid them $1.7 million dollars for their plot of land that was only worth $181,700.

·         In the 19th century, 'experts' warned women about a fake disease called bicycle face, to prevent them from riding bikes – The condition was "characterized by a hard, clenched jaw and bulging eyes."

·         In 1992, a retiree was out searching for a lost hammer with a metal detector. During his search he found a huge cache of Roman treasure, including 15,234 coins. The British government gave him and the owner of the land £1.75 million for finding it. Later on, he also found the hammer.

·         Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to LA with no contacts. He was spotted by Jamie Foxx, who offered him the use of his recording studio and a bed in his Hollywood home for six weeks.

·         In Japan, it's considered good luck to have a sumo wrestler make your baby cry.

·         Grafton castaways, a real-life Gilligan's Island. Shipwrecked for 18 months in the Auckland islands in 1864, the 5 men lived in a thatched hut complete with glass windows and bookshelves. They built a forge to work metal, tanned leather, made soap from seashells, and even brewed beer.

·         After the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved and anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage tripled in the United States.

·         Tupac's last words were to a police officer... They were "fuck you."

·         When Robin Williams appeared on 'Inside the Actors Studio' in 2001, an audience member developed a hernia from laughing too hard, and had to be taken away in an ambulance.

·         Forrest Fenn, and art dealer and author, hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains worth over 1 million dollars. It still has not been found.

·         The thigh bone of a human is stronger than concrete.

·         Chuck Yeager, the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight (in 1947), is still alive today and is 95 years old.

·         At Birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.

·         In India, LG Electronics sells TV sets that use ultrasonic waves to repel mosquitoes, even when the television is off.

·         After uniting Mongol tribes under one banner, Genghis Khan actually did not want any more war. To open up trade, Genghis Khan sent emissaries to Muhammad II of Khwarezm, but Khwarezm Empire killed the Mongolian party. Furious Genghis Khan demolished Khwarezmian Empire in two years.

·         Operation Chariot, the WWII mission where 611 British Commandos rammed a disguised, explosive laden destroyer, into one of the largest Nazi submarine bases in France filled with 5000 Nazis, withdrew under fire, then detonated the boat, destroying one of the largest dry docks in the world.

One of Russia's deadliest contract killers, Alexander Solonik, was credited with 43 kills. He was killed in 1997 by another contract killer sent by the mob he was working for.

When Michael Jackson died, the entire internet actually slowed down due to up to 20% more traffic than usual.

The average American makes three impulse purchases every week, according to a survey.

A depressed Manchester teen used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him, and after surviving the attack, he became the first person in UK history to be charged with inciting their own murder.

January 22, 1943 in Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4 at 7:32 a.m. to 45 degrees–a rise of 49 degrees—in just two minutes. A couple of hours later, it plunged from 54 back to -4 degrees–a change of 58 degrees in 27 minutes.

Nearly 60% of adults check their social media at least ten times a day.

Max Planck was told by his professor to not go into Physics because "almost everything is already discovered". Planck said he didn't want to discover anything, just learn the fundamentals. He went on to originate quantum theory and win a Nobel Prize.

Elvis once left in the middle of a recording session to fly over to Denver to sing in a funeral for a police officer that was killed on duty.

Women who wear less makeup are viewed as stronger leaders, according to researchers from Abertay University.

Pornhub has a branch of their network called “Pornhub Cares” where they focus on humanitarian efforts. Some of their causes are breast and testicular cancer research, planting trees, and funding student college scholarships.

Billionaire Warren Buffett still lives in the house he bought before he was rich, and still eats breakfast at McDonald's almost everyday.

The 'average' couple has sex nine times a month, according to a survey.

About 85 percent of hospitals still use pagers because hospitals can be dead zones for cell service. In some hospital areas, the walls are built to keep X-rays from penetrating, but those heavy-duty designs also make it hard for a cell phone signal to make it through but not pagers.

Elizabeth II is officially Queen of 16 nations including Canada, Australia, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, and the Bahamas.

Pigeons are better at multitasking than humans, according to researchers at Ruhr-University Bochum.

Most female cheetahs go their entire lives without raising a single cub to maturity. The species is dependent on "supermoms" that are particularly adept at raising cubs. One such supermom, Eleanor, has mothered at least 10% of all adult cheetahs in the southern Serengeti.

When Charlie Chaplin won his honorary Oscar in 1972 for “the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century” he received a 12 minute standing ovation.

Only 1/3rd of people diagnosed with depression seek treatment, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente.

Japan had issues with crow nests on electric infrastructure, so they went and destroyed all of the nests....which prompted the local crow population to just build MORE nests, far in excess to what they actually needed.

Iran pays people to donate kidneys, and has no waiting list for kidney transplantation.

Spending too much time in dimly lit rooms can impact brain structure and make it harder to learn/remember information. If you want to perform better, make the room brighter, according to neuroscientists at Michigan State University.

Florida repealed its helmet law in 2000. In the 30-months after, helmet use in Florida dropped from 99% to 53%. The number of riders under 21 who were killed (despite still being legally required to wear a helmet) nearly tripled, from 35 to 101. Hospitalizations increased by 40%.

Rodney King died on Father’s Day in 2012 by drowning in a swimming pool. This was 28 years after his father died, also on Father’s Day, and also by drowning.

Eating a whole avocado every day can improve your brain and eyes.

It is 100% legal to be buried at sea in the USA. You basically wrap the body in a sheet with some weights, at least 3 miles from shore and throw it off the boat. The Navy even has a program to assist veterans of the armed services.

The number 8 is such a lucky number in China that the Chinese government scheduled the Beijing Olympics to begin 8 seconds after 8:08 on 8/8/2008.

The average American has 60 bad days a year.

“Jaywalking” was invented by car companies in the early 1900’s to shift blame for accidents from motorists to pedestrians.

When the movie Clue was shown in theaters, different theaters were given 1 of 3 endings.

Eating releases endorphins and literally makes your brain happy.

A Portuguese castle enduring a prolonged siege broke the enemies resolve by, in a fake show of plenty, throwing freshly baked bread made from the very last flour in the castle with the message, ‘if you need any more, just let us know’. Fearing a much more prolonged siege, the Spaniards withdrew.

Most internet data is not transferred across continents by satellites. Instead, 97% of intercontinental data is transferred through hundreds of thousands of miles of cables at the bottom of the ocean.

A third of American households struggle to get enough food.

The Danish language is so full of vowel sounds and guttural swallowed consonants that even Danish children have trouble understanding it, learning to speak at a much slower rate than in other countries.

Since 2008, every single winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee has been from Indian origin.

Hearing voices when no one is around can be a sign of a well-tuned brain more than mental illness, according to researchers from Durham University.

"Dukes of Hazzard" were destroying '68-'70 Dodge Chargers at such a rate that planes had to be used for aerial search for replacement cars among the populace.

In 1971, Pink Floyd played a show in London that was so loud it killed all the fish in a lake 100 yards away.

Female cats tend to favor their right paw while male cats prefer their left.

In the 1700s, Queen Caroline of Great Britain had smallpox inoculation trialed on six prisoners in return for commuting their death sentences. When this was successful, she inoculated her own children, popularizing the process.   

The ozone layer is healing and a full recovery is expected by year 2050-2060

6 in 10 Americans say they are "too scared" to go to the dentist.

Cats can recognize their owner’s voice and tone when they are calling for them from other voices and background noises. Their brain registers the sound, but the cat just can’t be bothered to respond.

Peru has 90 different microclimates, including 30 of the 32 world climates, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world in microclimates.

Yesterday, on one of the coldest days in Chicago's history, an anonymous resident put 70 homeless people up in a hotel.

The term "litterbug" was popularized by Keep America Beautiful, which was created by "beer, beer cans, bottles, soft drinks, candy, cigarettes" manufacturers to shift public debate away from radical legislation to control the amount of waste these companies were (and still are) putting out.

It is impossible for anyone to verbally count up to one billion.

Regularly consuming yogurt improves bone health.

Ishi, the last Native American Yahi. Due to Yahi customs a person may not speak his name until formally introduced by another Yahi. When asked for his name he'd say "I have none, because there were no people to name me." Ishi is the name given by an anthropologist, translated as "man".

Roger Boisjoly was an engineer working at NASA in 1986 that predicted that the O-rings on the Challenger would fail and tried to abort the mission but nobody listened to him.

Moonshine alcohol jugs are typically marked with 'XXX' in cartoons because it needs to be distilled 3 times to reach nearly 100% pure alcohol. Each 'X' signifies a distillation.