The world’s oceans contain 20 million tons of gold.
During the ice age, 32,000 years ago, a squirrel buried a seed. Now the seed has been used to grow a flower.
There are more bacteria inhabiting our body than there are human cells.
A giraffe can clean its own ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Adolf Hitler was nominated for the nobel peace prize in 1939.
As a fundraiser, Justin's Bieber's BABY has been played in a chicago high school and students had to pay to stop it. The campaign raised $1000 in 3 days.
MDIF, a non-profit organisation is planning to beam free wifi to entire world from space.
In 2006, a woman was found in her london apartment, skeletonized after 3 years of being dead.
There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way points for climbers.
Whenever we talk of richest person on Earth, we either think of Bill Gates or John D. Rockefeller. But they are not. Please meet Mansa Musa 1 of Mali. (worth is $400 billion)
Forbes estimated in 2011 that Scrooge McDuck was worth $44.1 billion.
It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
In Egypt, actors were not allowed to testify in the court because they were seen as professional liars.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.