Madame Curie's notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers wishing to study them must sign a waiver in order to do so.
In response to The Lorax the foresting industry published Truax to teach kids about the importance of logging.
When Twister was introduced in 1966, it was denounced by critics as "sex in a box."
There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
Otters sleep holding hands.
OJ Simpson was originally cast to play Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
The last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, promised his daughter he’d write her initials on the moon. He did, and her initials, “TDC,” will probably be on the moon for tens of thousands of years.
The Mimic Octopus can not only change colours, but will mimic the shapes of other animals, like the flounder, lionfish, and sea snakes.
Twenty percent of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter.
If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
In the 1960s, the CIA tried to spy on the Kremlin and Russian embassies by turning cats into listening devices. The program, called Acoustic Kitty, involved surgically implanting batteries, microphones and antennae inside cats.
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
A traffic jam lasted lasted for more than 10 days, with cars only moving 0.6 miles a day.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Caterpillars completely liquify as they transform into mother
When adjusted for inflation, John D. Rockefeller is the richest man in the history of the world with a net worth 10 times more than Bill Gates.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck at 4:20.
Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" to win a bet against his publisher who thought that he could not complete a book with only 50 words.
A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Russia didn't consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was previously classified as a soft drink.
If a male lion takes over a pride, he executes all of the cubs.
Forbes estimated in 2011 that Scrooge McDuck was worth $44.1 billion.
Two-thirds of the people on Earth have never seen snow.
In Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho, the sound effects for the famous shower scene were actually created by repeatedly stabbing a casaba melon.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the Unites States.
When St. Louis held the 1904 Summer Olympic Games, events included greased pole climbing, rock throwing and mud fighting.
The Woolly Mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built.
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