| Talkeetna is a small but fun town in Alaska with just 876 inhabitants. It is an unincorporated area it is not governed by it's own local municipal corporation. Therefore, the Community Council decided to give the position of mayor to a cat named 'Stubbs'. He has been the honorary mayor since 1997! That's over 15 years of being in power! |
| If one places 2 straws in one's mouth, one inside of a drink and the other on the outside - one won't be able to drink through either of them. |
| Yawning doesn't necessarily mean that you're tired, studies suggest that we yawn when our body & brain need more oxygen. |
| Researchers have found that meditation can reduce anxiety by as much as 39%! |
| A can of diet coke will float in water, while a can of regular coke will sink. It's because that if an object displaces more than its weight in liquid, it floats; otherwise it sinks... So the regular Coke can sinks as it is more dense than water due to sugar content in it. |
| Using your phone while it's charging can damage the battery - This is why the cords for chargers are so short. |
| 'SWIMS' upside down still looks like 'SWIMS'. |
| New Element 115 has been included in the Periodic Table from August, 2013. Scientists have created this very heavy atom with a very short life span. Element 115, officially labeled ununpentium as dictated by international chemistry naming rules, is neither a natural nor practical thing. For now, it's stuck with its clunky ununpentium moniker, the two un's coming from the Latin unum, for the number one, and the pent coming from the Greek word for five. |
| All 11 members of a football team were killed in Congo by a bolt of lightning in October, 1998. The two sides were drawing 1-1 in the match in eastern Kasai Province of Democratic Republic of Congo when the lightning struck the visiting team. The athletes from the home team, 'Basanga' curiously came out of this catastrophe unscathed. |
| Koalas do not drink. They get all the moisture they need from the leaves that they ingest. |