if you die in Amsterdam without any friends or family left to attend your funeral a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
Michael Jackson wanted to do a Harry Potter musical but J.K. Rowling said no.
Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs or wolves.
Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word seppuku which means literally belly splitting.
Elephant scan get sunburned so they protect themselves with sand.
One of the assassins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand threw a grenade but missed the car. He swallowed cyanide and jumped to the River Miljacka. The cyanide was expired and did not work and the river was only 10cm deep. He was captured seconds later.
There's a bar in Ireland that opened in the year 900 A.D. and is still operational. It's called "Sean's Bar".
Government officials in Lionel Messi's hometown in Argentina have banned parents from naming their children "Messi."
Even though a polar bears average body temperature is 37°C; they don’t give off any detectable heat, so they won’t show up in infrared photographs.
Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.
If Ancient Rome's Colosseum was built today it would cost about US$380 million.
Some chickens are half male half female.
Every year more than 2500 left-handed people are killed from using right-handed products.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years.
A worm's mind has been mapped and replicated by scientists into a software that's now inside a Lego robot.
The rock at the summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone and would have been deposited on the seafloor around 450 million years ago.
North Korea has 51 "Social Categories" ranked by their loyalty to the regime.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th!
An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
A Boeing 747′s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
Only one-half of a dolphin's brain goes to sleep at a time.
In 2006 Russia gifted the U.S. a 9/11 memorial monument which was erected in Bayonne NJ.
Ikea names sofas coffee tables and bookshelves after places in Sweden; beds wardrobes and hall furniture after places in Norway; carpets after places in Denmark and dining tables and chairs after places in Finland.
8%of Americans sleep naked.
(via YouTube)
A “2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
There's a McDonald's with turquoise arches in Sedona Arizona.
During WW2 the lights of Big Ben were dimmed so that German bombers could not use it for reference.
The African nation of Mozambique has an AK-47 assault rifle on its flag.
A panda fur is worth between US$60 000 and US$100 000 on the illegal trade market.
There are 2 pets for every 3 people in the U.S.
Most married couples are happiest in their third year of marriage.
To study the health effects of coffee King Gustav III of Sweden commuted the death sentences of a pair of twins on the condition that one drank 3 pots of coffee and the other tea for the rest of their lives.
In western Iran there's a viper with a fake spider for a tail.
Sugary drinks kill more people than violent crime in Mexico.
Homer Simpson once had a theory that the universe was shaped like a donut. The theory has some validity according to cosmologists.
The word 'censorship' is censored in China.
The Statue of Liberty was originally conceived of as being a peasant Muslim woman in traditional Islamic dress.
Australia has over 10 000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for over 27 years.
Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.
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