In 1961 James Monaghan, co-founder of Domino’s Pizza traded his 50% stake in the company to his brother Tom for a used Volkswagen. Tom went on to sell his 93% for 1 billion.

In order to advertise their services, prostitutes in ancient Greece wore sandals that left the words “follow me” imprinted in the dirt as they walked.

The 1982 movie Poltergeist used real skeletons as props because they were cheaper than plastic skeletons.

Nissan used the number 23 in motorsport racing because the number 2 translates to ni and, the number 3 translates to san. 23 translates to ni-san.

The poison from dieffenbachia a.k.a. mother-in-law plant can cause temporary inability to speak.

Robin Williams attended Juilliard School, but dropped out in his junior year because his teacher, a renowned actor/producer, told him that there was nothing that he could learn from Juilliard that he didn’t already know.

Pumpkins, watermelons, avocados, and bananas are all berries while strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are not.

A project’s “Bus Factor” denotes the number of people in a company who need to be ‘run over by a bus’ to send the company into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed.

Whale milk has 30-50% fat content and often has the consistency of a toothpaste.

The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, stood for a mere 50 years before it was destroyed by an earthquake. Its ruins stood and attracted visitors for way longer than the original statue (reportedly hundreds of years) before it was finally recycled for scrap metal.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, 45.0°C, is higher than any temperature ever recorded in either Brazil or Thailand.

A giant American wasp called the tarantula wasp has a sting so painful, one peer-reviewed journal advises anyone who gets stung to “lie down and scream” to avoid further injury.

Five-time Tour de France winner, Miguel Indurain, had a resting heart rate of just 28 beats per minute. The average person has a resting heart rate of about 60 beats per minute.

Austrian musical group called the Das erste Wiener Gemüseorchester uses instruments made entirely from vegetables and after the show they use the vegetables to make soup.

In 2009, a Kansas City Car Dealer Offers gave away a voucher for a free AK-47 with each truck purchase during a sale.

Until 1993, the BT Tower was an official state secret despite being a 177-metre tall structure in the middle of central London that was open to the public.

Mushrooms can create a slight breeze even when the air is calm. They release water vapor, cooling the air and creating a convective current that gets the air moving, carrying spores away from the parent.

In 2001, DEA attempted to ban glow sticks from parties by labeling them as “drug paraphernalia.”

In 1859, English settler Thomas Austin released only 24 rabbits onto his property in Australia, stating “The introduction of a few rabbits could do little harm and might provide a touch of home, in addition to a spot of hunting.” By the 1920’s the population of rabbits in Australia reached 10 billion.

Clair Cameron Patterson, the man who figured out how old planet earth really is, was the same man who discovered world-wide environmental lead contamination which eventually lead to leaded gasoline’s banning.

The word “retarded” came into popular use during the 1960’s because it was considered far less offensive and more politically correct than labeling someone a m*ron, idiot or imbecile.

In 1923, a jockey named Frank Hayes suffered a fatal heart attack and died mid-race. His body remained on the horse and crossed the finish line in first place. He had never won a race before in his life.

Kevin Mitnick as a hacker was believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”

Dalmatians used to run alongside horse drawn fire trucks acting as a barking siren to clear crowds. This is the reason for their positive reputation with firefighters.

Dragonflies are one of the most efficient killers in nature, capturing their prey more than 95% of the time.

More than 90 percent of the monarch butterfly population has vanished in the last 25 years.

Winston Churchill found so much enjoyment and relaxation in laying bricks that he even joined and paid dues in the Bricklayer’s Union. He even inquired in a letter “is there is a rule regulating the number of bricks which a man may lay a day?…and what are the restrictions on overtime?”

For months after returning from long stays in space, some astronauts will still let go of an object in mid-air fully expecting it to float.

Motion sickness occurs due to confusion between perceived movement and actual movement. The brain’s conclusion is that one of the senses is hallucinating due to poison ingestion and thus the brain induces vomiting to clear the supposed toxin.

Deuterium, one of the ingredients for nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater, and viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor. A gallon of seawater can produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline.