- the 'scott pilgrim' comics were named after the sickly infectious tune 'scott pilgrim' by plumtree
- honeybees can cook their enemies by vibrating on top of them
- glitter is so unique it can be used as forensic evidence if matching glitter is found at the crime scene and on the suspect since glitter often goes unnoticed by the suspect
- when two white-faced capuchin monkeys meet, they say hello by sticking their fingers into each other's noses
- the designer of the current united states flag was 17 at the time, and created it for a high school project, he received a b-
- danny devito used to work as a hairdresser. for corpses.
- scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed -- grasshopper mice have evolved to turn scorpion venom into a pain-killer. they now prey on scorpions.
- oxford university is older than the aztec empire.
- a man named tsutomu yamaguchi was on a business trip in hiroshima when the atomic bomb dropped. he was wounded, but returned to his hometown of nagasaki, where the very next day the second atomic bomb was dropped. he survived both blasts and lived to 93.
- the sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
- if you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
- mattel once tried to sue aqua over their song "barbie girl". the judge literally told them to "chill".
- the richest superhero is actually black panther, who has an estimated of $500 billion, whereas tony stark is worth $100 billion and bruce wayne $80 billion.
- russia has a larger surface area than pluto.
- the first time reddit was mentioned in the new york times, it was described as "foolish collectivism" that "grinds away the web's edges and saps it of its humanity".
- the japanese created a smoke alarm for those who can't hear, which pumps super-spicy wasabi mist into the air to alert them.
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