23/01/2023
There are only two countries in the world that have "The" as part of their country's name.
The founder of Match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to another man she met on Match.com
In 1961 two hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over North Carolina. A glitch prevented them from detonating.
People living in the southern hemisphere see the moon upside down compared to people living in the northern hemisphere.
German Chocolate Cake has nothing to do with Germany. It was named after English-American Samuel German who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe.
Most of the visible stars you see in the night sky are binary stars - two stars orbiting each other.
Camels store water their bloodstream, not their hump which is fatty tissue.
McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli
It took Erno Rubik, the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, about one month to solve the cube after he created it.
21/01/2023
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses Waffle House Restaurants being open or closed as one way to determine the effect of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery.
A dog named Duke was the mayor of Cormorant, Minnesota for four consecutive terms before retiring at 91 in dog years.
There's a real music piece name 4′33″ that involves all the musicians just silently holding their instruments.
On average, the closest planet to Earth is Mercury. On average, the closest planet to Pluto is also Mercury.
Babies have 300 bones when born while an adult only has 206 bones.
Earth used to be purple.
NASA mistakenly erased the original tape of the first steps on the moon.
Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s grandson, overthrew Iran for the US government.
A town in Pennsylvania has had an uncontrolled fire burning since 1962.
19/01/2023
The Canary Islands were named after dogs, not canaries.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses Waffle House Restaurants being open or closed as one way to determine the effect of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery.
Lemurs use millipedes as an insect repellant and to get high.
More than eighty percent of the Earth's ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored.
Twinkies only have a shelf life of 45 days.
In space, you don't need welding materials to get two metals to fuse. They will do it on their own if you place them close enough together.
One teaspoon of neutron star material weighs six billion tons.
McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence.
