If a female fox dies, her mate will stay single forever, but a widowed female fox looks for a new mate immediately! |
Wrigley's was originally a soap company that gifted baking powder with their soap. The baking powder became more popular than the soap so they switched to selling baking powder with chewing gum as a gift. The gum became more popular than the baking powder so the company switched to selling gum! |
The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. The coordinate for the Great Pyramid of Giza is 29.9792458°N. |
Water is both the least expensive and most valuable liquid in the known Universe! |
Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times! |
In Denmark, there are libraries where you can borrow a person instead of a book to listen to their life story for 30 minutes. The goal is to fight prejudice. Each person has a title -"unemployed," or "refugee," or "bipolar," etc. - but listening to their story you realize how much you shouldn't "judge a book by its cover." This innovative, brilliant project is active in fifty countries. It is called The Human Library. |
Did You Know?
Some of the Royal Enfield bikes are called Bullets because Royal Enfield began business as a weapon manufacturer, most famous for the Enfield rifle. Also, the original Royal Enfield logo had cannon, and hence there is the tagline, "Made like a Gun, Goes like a bullet!" |
Indian mythology taught 1000 years ago to blow Shankh every morning during Pooja. The same philosophy is now being used medically for increasing lung capacity using a device called Spirometer! |
Trivia: The T-shirt is actually short for the tyrannosaurus shirt. It's because of the small arms! |
There is a Banyan tree in Pakistan that has been chained and officially arrested since 1898. This happened when James Squid, a drunk British officer thought the tree was moving towards him. |