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The remains of England's King Richard III were found buried under a parking lot in Leicester in 2013. He was killed on the battlefield in 1485.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Most flight delays in the U.S. are caused by mechanical problems and crew issues, not bad weather.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronaut John Glenn became the oldest person in space at 77 after lobbying NASA for 2 years to fly "as a human guinea pig for geriatrics."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Lucy, the most famous fossil, died 3.2 million years ago after falling from a tree.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An Apollo astronaut lost his wedding ring during his trip to the moon and found it again during a spacewalk.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Stevie Wonder is blind because doctors gave him supplemental oxygen as a baby.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Switzerland sent 31 soldiers to Afghanistan in 2003, its first military deployment since 1815.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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NASA has discovered over 3,200 planets, all confirmed with 99% certainty.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The parody national anthem of Kazakhstan from the movie "Borat" was accidentally downloaded and played in 2012 for a Kazakh gold medalist.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1948, a man robbed a bank by pretending to be a public health official and giving cyanide to every bank employee as a "dysentery inoculation."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The first airline stewardesses in the U.S. were all nurses. The requirement disappeared when many nurses left to serve in WW2.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Most mammals, from elephants to shrews, live for the same number of heartbeats, about 1.5 billion, before dying.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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When wolves howl together, they harmonize rather than sing on one note to give the illusion of greater numbers.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1987, a man convinced 2.8 million people to send him a penny each for his college education.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If you cool liquid helium just a few degrees below its boiling point, it can climb walls and defy gravity.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Millennium Prize is a US$1 million award given to whoever can solve any 1 of 7 math problems, but to date only 1 of the problems has been solved.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The average European is 2.7% Neanderthal.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Sniffer bees and wasps have been trained to detect illegal drugs and explosive materials, and their ability to do so rivals sniffer dogs.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Saudi Arabia officially classifies atheism as terrorism.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A Malaysian women spent over a month in a box full of over 6,000 scorpions. She only got stung 7 times.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Saturn's rings are younger than the dinosaurs. They were likely formed just 100 million years ago.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Anders Breivik, a Norweigan man convicted of killing 69 children, threatened to go on a hunger strike if his prison cell's PlayStation 2 wasn't upgraded to PS3.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Wolverines are trained to find and rescue avalanche survivors, because they are naturally inclined to sniff out animals 20 feet below the snow and eat them.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A typo prevented hackers of stealing US$1 billion in 2016. They misspelled "foundation" as "fandation" in a wire transfer request, prompting bank authorities to investigate.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There's a hedgehog cuddling cafe in Tokyo.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Humans empathetically experience pain when they see someone of the same race experience pain, but less so with someone of another race.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A dead adult male tiger can sell for US$10,000 or more on the black market.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Great Wall of China is being destroyed by farmers living around the structure who have been turning it into pathways, shelters and even fertilisers for crops.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In India, Snakes are worshipped as gods even today. Many women pour milk on snakes, despite snakes' aversion for it.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The are over 900 stone ring monuments in the British Isles. Stonehenge is just the most famous of them.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
