"Pins and needles" is really called "paresthesia".
Great Britain has invaded about 90% of the world's countries.
There's a brand of hand sanitizer called "Maybe You Touched Your Genitals".
There was a hoax that the world was ending in 1806 because someone wrote "Christ is coming" on eggs, that were later stuffed into a hen.
Gary Numan is actually 13 days older than Gary Oldman.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
Los Angeles's full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula'.
Polyamorous people have invented a word to indicate the opposite feeling of jealousy - compersion.
The Macrocilix maia moth confuses predators with wing patterns that mimic two flies eating bird poop. It even releases a pungent odor to drive home the deception.
The opposite of paranoia is "pronoia". This is the belief that a massive conspiracy exists to help you.
80% of women use silence to express pain. You know she's truly hurt when she chooses to ignore you.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 inches.
You see yourselves 6 times more attractive in the mirror than you really are.
Studies show that children who are better liars tend to become more successful as adults.
The symbol that represents infinity is actually called a "Lemniscate".
'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards in 'Dammit I'm mad'.
Babies tend to cry more in yellow rooms.
The Harry Potter books all take place in the 1990s. Harry Potter was born in 1980.
The people of Buganda, who live in Uganda, speak Luganda.
The name for that tingling sensation you feel after hearing certain sounds is called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
Humans actually have 15 other senses which include things like balance, temperature, internal senses for suffocation, thirst and fullness.
Every citizen of Finland has the right to an internet connection.
When you see a halo around the moon or sun, that means a storm is coming.
The space between your pointer finger and thumb is called the purlicue.
During pregnancy, if a mother suffers organ damage, the baby in the womb sends stem cells to repair the damaged organ.
Perceptronium is hypothetical form of matter that possess a sort of consciousness. It could be built for use in computers.
Oxygen is required for combustion and hydrogen is flammable gas, but together they make water which puts fire out.
There is a service that will anonymously ship your enemies a gallon of cow, elephant or gorilla shit, your choice.
Foods rich in Vitamin B6 have the ability to make your dreams more vivid and help you remember them.
In the past, 3 people have tried to sell Coca Cola's secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi informed Coke and the FBI.
Sea Otters tend to have a "favorite" rock, which they store and carry with them in a pouch usually under their left arm.
Over $43 billion worth of unopened, edible food is thrown away in the U.S. every year.
The 10 billionth song downloaded on iTunes was done by a 71-year-old man whom Steve Jobs called and gave a $10,000 iTunes prize.
Never underestimate the power of music. It'll heal your soul.
The technical term for sneezing is "sternutation".
The most successful pirate captain was actually a Chinese prostitute. She had 80,000 sailors working for her.
Thinking evil thoughts and clenching your fists actually makes you stronger.
Men are actually more emotionally affected by relationshp troubles than women - they just do a better job of hiding it.
There are more possible games of chess lasting 40 movies than there are atoms in the entire universe. Intriguing to know.
The Frog Fish sucks prey into its mouth at 1/6,000th of a second, faster than the eye can see and the fastest known movement in nature.
Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison & Steve Jobs all had no college degree.
A tiny Californian mite, Paratarsotomus macropalpis, can run 300 times its own body length in one second. A cheetah can only do 16 body lengths per second - making the mite one of the fastest recorded creatures on Earth.
Avatar, a 188 minute movie, took 35,000 processor cores with 104 terabytes of RAM running 24/7 for more than a month to render.
NASA's Van Allen Probes have discovered a particle accelerator in the heart of Earth's radiation belts that speeds up tiny particles to more than 99 percent the speed of light.
The unicorn is the official animal of Scotland.
The International Potato Center in Peru, the country where potatoes originated, contains thousands of different varieties of potatoes preserved for future generations.
Several ant-species build nest mounds that slope southwards to maximize the heat absorbed from the sun during the day.
Norwegian-born smell expert Sissel Tolaas has a collection of over 7, 000 different smells that she has harvested from around the world.
The act of estimating a woman's beauty based on the size of her chest is called colposinquanonia.
Volkswagen own Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati and Porsche.
Brithday cars that sing have more computing power than the computers used by the Allied Forces in World War II.
Learning a foreign language or how to play an instrument can help slow the brain's aging process.
"Schadenfreude" is a word for that feeling of joy and slight satisfaction you somethimes get from the misfortune of others.
Human sexual intercourse evolved from the activities of a bony fish - Microbrachius dicki - in Scottish lakes 385 million years ago.
There is an English word to describe that slight feeling of joy you get from the misfortune of other people - it's "epicarcicacy."
Video games are more effective at battling depression than counseling is.
In Kentucky, it is against the law to remarry the same man four times.
Raccoons can figure out how to open different complex locks in less than 10 tries - they remember these solutions for about 3 years.
This flower, the psychotria elata also goes by the nickname "hooker lips."
In 1975, a 17-year-old boy was killed while riding his Moped. He was killed exactly a year after his 17-year-old brother was killed while riding the same Moped, in the same intersection, by the same taxi, with the same driver, carrying the same passenger.
Scientists believe that 70,000 years ago early humans became as endangered as red pandas are today, numbering only 10,000 individuals.
Emperor Akihito of Japan is a world authority on Goby fish and has published scientific papers and contributed to books on the subject.
Great Frigatebirds frighten other birds into regurgitating the contents of their stomachs midair, which it then eats, catching it on the fly.
Rome had four different emperors in the year 69 AD - Galba was murdered by Otho, who then committed suicide in an attempt to end the bloodshed, before Vitellius was murdered by Vegpasian.
A luxury bathroom resembling the United States Capitol building can be found in Fuyang City, China, built in 2014 at a cost of over $100,000.
In 1519 in Stelvio, Italy, a number of moles were put on trial on charges of damages crops. They were given a defense lawyer, found guilty and sentenced to exile.
In the 18th century, King Louis XVI of France wore potato flowers in his buttonhole and his wife Marie Antoinette wore them in her hair to help encourage the French lower classes to eat potatoes.
Studies have shown that hospital patients in rooms with views of trees recover quicker than patients with no views or windows revealing brick walls.
Frederick The Great of Prussia (1712-1786) built a summer palace, Sanssouci, or "No Worries", where no women were invited - even his queen did not visit.
Mani Manithan of Tirupattur, India, has been walking backwards for 2 years in the hope of inspiring world peace.
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