There was an all-girl band that would throw a ‘Golden Condom” to the audience, and whoever got it, male or female, was taken backstage to have sex with band members.
Jamais vu is the opposite of deja vu.
The closest living relatives to the Tyrannosaurus Rex are chickens.
Earth seems to have a second moon. Asteroid 2016 HO3 will be our "quasi" moon for centuries.
Most of the world does not refrigerate eggs. North America, Japan, Australia, and Scandinavia are the only places that do.
The Great Pyramid of Giza has eight faces - not four. The concave indentations that halve the four sides are only detectable under specific lighting conditions.
Kia Silverbrook is the world's most prolific inventor. Silverbrook holds more than 9,700 patents. By comparison, Thomas Edison accumulated 2,332 patents.
Olli is a 3D-printed self-driving minibus. The bus, made by Local Motors and powered by IBM's Watson, was unveiled in June 2016 and is already on the road.
Scientists are developing an artificial leaf that can generate clean energy. The leaf mimics natural photosynthesis by splitting water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen.
It is nearly impossible to photocopy money. The Eurion Constellation is the anti-counterfeit symbol that tells photocopiers to stop copying.
From a mathematical perspective, you should always order the bigger pizza. When choosing between one big pizza or two smaller ones, know that a 16-inch has four times the area of an 8-inch.
Seashells, sunflowers, galaxies and Romanesco broccoli are some places where you can see the Fibonacci sequence in Nature.
Here are some forgotten slang phrases:
Pang-wangle (c.1908) - to go along cheerfully despite minor misfortunes
Sauce box (c.1588) - an impudent person who talks above others
Flub the dub (c.1885) - to avoid work or duty
Cabbage hat (c.1841) - an informer, a rat
Seven people literally hold the keys to the Internet. The keys give them the ability to reconstruct the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) in case disaster strikes.
The Guren Transfer is the moment when you enter a store and forget what you came to buy. Stores carefully engineer this effect, which was named after the Austrian architect who relied against it.
Contronyms are words that are also their opposites. Some common ones are: cleave, trim, sanction, and clip.
Krishna's Butter Ball is a boulder that has been perched in a gravity-defying position for about 1,200 years. The 20-foot-tall, 16.5-foot-wide rock sits on the edge of a slope in Mahabalipuram, India.
Drawing something will help you remember it. In a study of memory, participants recalled up to twice as many words after drawing the concepts rather than writing the words repeatedly.
The company that awards Michelin Stars to restaurants is the same one that makes tires. The Michelin tire company began publishing the Michelin Guide in 1900 to inspire drivers to travel.
You should listen to music at a volume no louder than a microwave's beep. Microwaves beep at roughly 85 decibels, which is the World Health Organization's recommended level when listening to music for eight hours or less.
People work best in 90-minute intervals. This coincides with your ultradian rhythm, or the brain-wave frequency cycles that occur both when you're awake and when you're asleep.
Being frenemies with a coworker might actually improve your work performance.
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