Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.
The Spanish national anthem has no words.
Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.
Dead people can get goose bumps.
A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" tv stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation.
The state sport of Maryland is jousting.
When we breathe through our nose, we always inhale more air from one nostril than with the other one — and this changes every 15 minutes.
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
The woolly mammoth was still around when the pyramids were being built.
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
A truck dumps five cent coins in the centre of the Federal Square during a an event organised by the Committee for the initiative "CHF 2,500 monthly for everyone" (Grundeinkommen) in Bern October 4, 2013.
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.