"Mark Twain was born on the day when Halley’s Comet flew by the earth. He said “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” Halley’s Comet next appeared on April 21, 1910, which is the day Mark Twain died."
"The Romans had a celebratory day once in a year where the roles of master and slave were reversed. "
"At one time Pillsbury bought Burger King with the intention of fixing everything that was wrong with the then declining franchise. To turn things around they hired a McDonald’s executive and when his changes were implemented Burger King took off like a rocket. "
"In 2006 baguettes were simultaneously placed on the ground in both Spain and New Zealand creating the first verified ‘Earth Sandwich’."
"Michael Jordans best friend is the limo driver who gave him a lift when he first arrived in Chicago back in 1984."
"The average black-market price of an AK-47 worldwide is $534. In certain areas in Africa, prices of AK-pattern rifles can be as low as $30. It is estimated that up to 100 million Kalashnikov assault rifles are still in use today. "
"The total surface area of all the alveoli in your lungs is about the size of a tennis court. "
"One of the largest bats in the world, the golden-capped fruit bat, with a wingspan of 5.6 feet, does not possess echolocation. It instead relies on its keen senses of sight and smell to locate food, usually traveling more than 25 miles for it. The species is now facing extinction. "
"Illegal coal mining activities in Mongolia and the intense use of coal burned on simple stoves has turned a region of Mongolia once famed for its blue skies into one of the world’s most polluted."
"Saloop, a drink of ground orchid tubers, was a popular 18th century alternative to tea until it became rumored to cure venereal disease. After that drinking it in public became shameful."
"There’s an anime and manga in Japan called Saint Young Men, which is about Jesus and Buddha living as roommates in Tokyo while taking a vacation on Earth and attempting to understand Japanese society."
"In 2001, Travis McHenry, an American claimed huge chunk of previously unclaimed Antarctican peninsula as his own nation through a supposed loophole in the Antarctic Treaty "
"Bill Haast, the “Snake Man,” was bitten by poisonous snakes at least 173 times. He injected himself with snake venom every day for a span of 60 years. He saved countless lives by donating his antibody-rich blood. He lived to be 100."
"The border between India and Bangladesh is so complicated that there is a “3rd order enclave,” which is a piece of India within Bangladesh, within India, within Bangladesh."
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#12 Actually there were many reports of dead pigeons in Central Park, and when autopsies they were found with burst stomachs full if rice. This was after an epic number of weddings one year, creating a law making rice illegal to throw at weddings there.