| Bees and wasps can be trained like dogs to detect explosives and drugs. |
| The school buses are generally yellow because the brain registers the color yellow faster than any other. |
| Positive emotions enhances the brain's ability to make good decisions. |
| Blonde beards are known to grow faster than dark beards. |
| The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. |
| The average bra is designed to last for 180 days. |
| Adolf Hitler's first love, in Vienna, was a Jewish girl called Stefanie but, lacking the courage, he never spoke to her. Instead he wrote love poems about her. |
| More than 8 million people saw Felix Baumgartner live break speed of sound at YouTube. |
| The Gulabi gang is a group of women vigilantes and activists active across North India. The gang was founded in 2006 by Sampat Pal Devi, as a response to widespread domestic abuse and other violence against women. Gulabis visit abusive husbands and beat them up with laathis (bamboo sticks) unless they stop abusing their wives. In 2008, they stormed an electricity office in Banda district and forced officials to turn back the power they had cut in order to extract bribes. They have also stopped child marriages and protested dowry and female illiteracy. |
| Louis Vuitton burns their unsold merchandise so that it can't be sold at a discount. |