1

"Rats feel empathy to such a degree that they will ignore a lever that releases a tempting chocolate treat in favor of one that saves a drowning friend"

2

"Alice Cooper used to babysit Keanu Reeves. "

3

"During the time of the devastating 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado, a traveling circus was in town but couldn’t perform due to the weather. Instead, they enlisted the help of their circus elephants to remove damaged vehicles and heavy debris from the road to clear a path for first responders."

4

"Garth Brooks’ 1993 song “We Shall Be Free” was boycotted by some country radio stations because it included the line “When we’re free to love anyone we choose.” "

5

"Dolphins can communicate with one another over a telephone, and appear to know who they are talking to. In one experiment carried in an aquarium in Hawaii, the mother and her two-year-old calf in another tank, connected by a special underwater audio link, recognized each other and “talked.” "

6

"While New Coke was a bomb, the return of the original formula as Coca-Cola Classic was very successful. When asked if New Coke was a conspiracy to promote the soda, an executive replied “We’re not that dumb, and we’re not that smart.” "

7

"1 kg of coal can generate 8 kWh of heat, whereas 1 kg of uranium 235 can generate 24,000,000 kWh of heat."

8

"Some skyscrapers have gigantic, 300-800 ton steel balls inside them to prevent high winds from making tenants dizzy. They also counter-balance swaying to keep the building more steady during an earthquake."

9

"Capsaicin, the spicy compound in hot peppers, does NOT kill tastebuds or harm your stomach. In fact, it was found to be beneficial to your digestive system, even helping it prevent and heal stomach ulcers. "

10

"People used to be given malaria to cure syphilis. The syphilis was unable to survive the high temperature from the malaria induced fever."

11

"Prairie Dogs live in “towns” and the biggest one ever found was 65,000 sq.km. and had 400,000,000 inhabitants. "

12

"A strategy that terrorists use to avoid having their emails tracked is for one terrorist to compose an email, save it as a draft, and have another terrorist log into the same account to read and delete the draft."

13

"In Indiana, Motorcycles at a red stop light only have to stop for 120 seconds, and then they can treat the stop light as if it were a stop sign and proceed through the intersection cautiously. "

14

"The word “panic” comes from the Greek woodland god Pan who was believed to be the source of mysterious forest sounds that would cause contagious, groundless fear in animals and humans alike."

15

"An SNL Jeopardy sketch was created by Norm Macdonald purely so that he could show off his Burt Reynolds impression."