Olivia Wilde’s actual name is Olivia Cockburn. She changed the last name for obvious reasons.

Ants take 250 power naps a day

A human body can produce enough carbon upon cremation to make 200 pencils. You can be your own souvenir at your funeral.

cows moo with regional accents

Some penguins have traded sex for stones as they use those stones to make nests.

Marge Simpson was supposed to have bunny ears

The treadmill was actually a torture device in jails.

The longest female beard was measured at 36cm or just above 1 ft.

There was a tiny self-declared “republic of Canada” that lasted for a few months in the winter of 1851-1852

Cleopatra lived closer to the time when the iPhone was invented than she did to the construction of the Great Pyramid.

The dress code for MLB umpires requires them to wear dark underwear during games.

All Clownfish are Born male. The Dominant Clown changes to female. When the female dies the next dominant male steps up into motherhood. Yes Nemo’s dad is now his new mother.

Saddam Hussein wrote an erotic novel. . . Zabibah and the King

The singular for spaghetti is spaghetto

Many Buddhist statues are Greek in origin.

That an ancient king called mithridates was so scared of being assassinated, he drank small amounts of poison every day until he built up an immunity to them all. When the Romans invaded his kingdom and defeated him he attempted to poison himself to avoid capture and execution but it because he was so used to the poison, it obviously didn’t work. Eventually a servant killed him with his sword.

The 1989 comedy film “Little Monsters” has two entirely seperate novelisations by two entirely unrelated authors. I don’t know why.

The dot on a lowercase “i” or “j” is called a tittle.