"200 people had summited Mount Everest by 1987, whereas by 2013 it had been summited 6,871 times by 4,042 different people."
"Aside from being an actor and an activist, Marlon Brando was also an inventor with 4 patents to his name. One of them were pool shoes that that would increase friction as you walk on the bottom of the pool to give you a better workout, and another invention being a single-tuning conga drum."
"Batman was created almost at the same time as the Black Bat, a pulp fiction hero so similar that the publishers considered suing each other. They eventually found an agreement: the Black Bat wouldn't appear in comics, and in exchange, Batman wouldn't appear in pulp magazines."
"Frequent and constant use of earphones increases the bacterial growth in the ear."
"The French monarchy fell five times and was restored four times in the span of a century, from 1771 to 1871."
"The word 'Rizz' was Oxford's word of the year for 2023, beating the words Swiftie, situationship and de-influencing."
"France sent the first cat into space in 1963. Félicette was a stray cat from the streets of Paris and was one of 14 cats trained for spaceflight. She survived her trip but was euthanised 2 months later."
"Actor Gerard Butler paid for bee venom injections twice and ended up in hospital both times."