-
The Church of Scientology now owns the "Cult Awareness Network" after they sued the originally one for calling them a cult.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE -
10% of British train toilets flush directly onto the tracks.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The online encyclopaedia dedicated to Lego is called ‘Brickipedia'.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Fruit-fly sperm is 20,000 times larger than porcupine sperm.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Mice sing like birds, but humans can't hear them.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
60% of boys described as bullies in school were convicted of at least one crime by the age of 24, a study found.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
100,000 wild tigers roamed Asia a century ago, but today their numbers have fallen to around 3,200 due to poaching.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Almost 50% of adults in England can't do basic maths.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The earliest surviving written music is a Hurrian hymn which date to approximately 1400 BC.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
83%of participants in a study reported feeling let down by their New Year's Eve plans because they had less fun than they expected.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The bubbles in champagne are, essentially, yeast farts.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The U.S. Air Force's C-5 plane is so enormous it can transport a submarine.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Philosopher René Descartes is most well known for the saying "I think, therefore I am," but he also developed the XY-coordinate system.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Abraham Lincoln was the First President to appear on a U.S. coin.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The 1989 article that proposed the acronym LOL also suggested using ‘H' to mean ‘Huh?'♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
In 1912, as a young man, former president of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh worked as the cook's helper on a ship bound for the U.S.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Queen Elizabeth I owned at least 150 wigs.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
60% of Americans order food for takeout or delivery at least once a week.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Actor Gene Wilder died at home while listening to one of his favorite songs, "Over the Rainbow" sung by Ella Fitzgerald.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The first ballpoint pens in America sold for US$12.50, the equivalent of US$164 today.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
If you weighed 150 lb (68 kg) on Earth, you would weigh 57 lb (26 kg) on Mercury or Mars.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
"Surprise me" were the last words of the 100 year-old, legendary comedian Bob Hope, responding to his wife's question regarding where he would like to be buried.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Bestseller "Fifty Shades of Grey" was originally self-published as an ebook and a print-on-demand.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
The writers of “The Christmas Song”, “White Christmas”, and “I'll Be Home For Christmas” were Jewish.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Rolling Stone magazine originally gave Nirvana's Nevermind a 3-star rating in 1991. They now give it 5 stars and rank it as the 17th greatest album of all time.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Australia hasn't had a recession since 1981.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Dark matter, along with dark energy, theoretically makes up 95% of the universe, but has not really been discovered yet.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
At the age of 15, Quentin Tarantino dropped out of high school and became the usher at a porn theater.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
-
Montana comes from the Spanish word montaña, or mountain. The state is home to 64 mountain ranges.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
