1Thirty-five percent of people are born without wisdom teeth/
As we continue to evolve, scientists believe that fewer and fewer humans will be born with wisdom teeth ...
... or appendixes
... or even little toes!
India’s dahala khafrbari the world’s only third-order enclave.
it’s a patch of India inside a patch of Bangladesh, which is inside a patch of India—all of which is surrounded by Bangladesh.
The American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-V handbook classifies caffeine withdrawal as a mental disorder.
Catnip isn’t just for housecats—it affects lions and tigers too!
In the 1870s, a Belgian village attempted to train a fleet of 37 official mail cats to deliver letters.
It didn’t work.
The cotton candy machine was invented by a dentist.
Twelve percent of sleepers dream in black and white.
Zebras’ coats are just black.
(Their undercoat has white stripes.)
The light emitted by 200,000 galaxies makes our universe a shade of beige.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University christened the color “cosmic latte.”
The oldest star is nicknamed Methuselah. it’s 13.8 billion years old.
If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll see is called eigengrau.
There may be no sound in space, but it does have a distinct smell: a bouquet of diesel fumes, gunpowder, and barbecue.
The aroma is mostly produced by dying stars.
In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
Where do baby carrots come from? Ugly caroots.
When a California farmer realized he was discarding 400 tons of carrots a day because they were too bent to be sold, he gave his harvest a makeover and shaved them down to snackable nubs.
Today, baby carrots are a $1 billion business.
Oreos are a knock-off of hydrox cookies, which came out four years earlier (in 1908).
If your dog's feet smell like corn chips, you're not alone. The term "Frito Feet" was coined to describe the scent.
The female G-spot was nearly named the Whipple Tickle, after professor Beverly Whipple.
In Iceland, it’s hard to come up with a creative name for a newborn. A government committee prevents parents from giving babies names it deems too weird.
The committee’s name? mannanafnanefnd.
Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are was initially pitched as Where the Wild Horses Are.
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