The President of the United States is not allowed to drive (there are some exceptions, for example, they can drive on Camp David). This also applies to former presidents and their spouses.

If you run in a fasted state, you can burn up to 20% more fat. Try running in the morning on an empty stomach.

Economist Ruth Judson estimates that about two-thirds of all $100 bills can be found outside the U.S. This is because central banks that hold foreign reserves prefer dollars.

Just how much is the multinational technology company Apple worth? In 2015, it was worth more than Sweden, Switzerland, and Nigeria.

In 2015, there were more people who lost their lives taking selfies than from shark attacks.

It seems counter-intuitive, but oxygen can have a negative impact on patients with injuries. To be more specific, 'too much oxygen too quickly can strip the molecule of a single electron, creating a free radical,' and free radicals are known to be highly reactive with other molecules. The destruction of molecules such as vital DNA and proteins can damage or even kill cells.

Just how much do you love your coffee? If you lived in the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Murad IV, you could have been punished by death. Coffee houses were seen as rivals to the mosques. But don't worry, all attempts to ban coffee failed, it was simply too popular.

Scientists have found that mushrooms can affect the weather. Nicholas Money and his team at Miami University say that mushroom spores may actually stimulate rainfall.

The last time anyone was known to have been diagnosed with HIV after receiving a blood donation in the U.S. was in 2008. The 'success' of this doesn't come from banning certain donors but from blood screening.

We all know WTF as an acronym that includes one of our favorite expletives, but it is also the acronym for the World Taekowndo Federation (ESPN says they're trying to rebrand themselves to avoid clash).

Ichirio Suzuki, world famous baseball player who now plays for the Marlins, revealed that he shared a special bond with Latin American players because they, too, were foreigners. The former Mariner and Yankee picked up Spanish from his former teammates, including a few trash talking phrases.

This one is probably no surprise, but Todd W. Schneider wrote that Homer of the The Simpsons has accounted for 21% of the show's dialogue, 1.3 million words in total.

Researchers at Norwegian University of Life Sciences found that horses can read symbols and also use them to their own advantage, whether or not they'd like a blanket placed on them or not, for example.

St Lucia, named from third-century Italian saint Lucy of Syracuse, is the only country to be named after a woman (excluding mythological beings).

On average, about 255 people are born every minute.

Greater Bangkok, home to over 10 million people, has a homeless population of 1,300. New York City, home to over 8.4 million people, has a homeless population of over 60,000.

Female sharks are known to store sperm for up to a year before fertilizing their eggs. BBC reported that a captive brownbanded bamboo shark in California stored sperm for about 45 months before giving birth.

A majority of diamonds found on the Earth's surface are somewhere between 1 and 3 billion years old.

A UK study reveals that an estimated 150,000 people die every year because the people around them didn't know how to help them. Help includes performing CPR, putting someone in recovery position, or understanding what to do when someone has a heart attack.

The U.S. may be the largest consumer of wine by volume but if we're looking at red wine, China is the largest market.

Up came to life when a Canadian man tied over 100 balloons to a garden chair and flew over Calgary last year. He wanted to promote his cleaning products. He was charged with mischief causing danger to life.

In Yemen, there are about 50 million guns, twice as many as its population of 26 million people. If you think that's a lot, the U.S. tops out the list as the country with the most guns (civilian firearms) per capita.

An NIH study shows that bilingual children are better at switching between tasks than monolinguals. Makes sense, right?

We don't know what 2 years means to you but on average, avid book readers live about 2 years longer than those who don't read at all.

Many of us assume that the blue whale is the loudest animal on earth, but this isn't true. The calls of sperm whales can reach up to 230 decibels.