Eating before bed leads to nightmares.

Maybelline was started when Williams noticed his older sister Mabel applying a mixture of Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes to give them a darker, fuller look. –

• Australia is wider than the moon. ...

Basking Sharks exist in Cornwall

3. In Stockholm, Sweden, there is a speed camera lottery. The speed camera photographs the license plates of drivers doing the speed limit, as well as those who are speeding. The people who are obeying the law have their license plates pulled (in a lottery) and receive a portion of the money collected from those who are speeding.

In 2013, a California couple found over 1,400 Double Eagle gold coins from the late 1800s stowed in tin cans on their property. The value of the coins is estimated at $10 million.

  Salty and Roselle were two separate guide dogs who were in the World Trade Centre during 9/11. They were on the 71st and 78th floor of Tower 1 respectively. They each led their owners safely out of the burning tower amidst the chaos, and both owners and dogs survived. –

 Pirates are shown with parrots because of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island, where Long John Silver has a talking green parrot named Captain Flint. –

  Only one person has ever been executed by the state of Wisconsin. The public execution was so graphic and horrible that Wisconsin abolished the death penalty two years later.

                                      For native English speakers, the hardest languages to learn are: Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, and especially Japanese. 

 In France, by law a bakery has to make all the bread it sells from scratch in order to have the right to be called a bakery

The Colorado River was not the original name of the river that helped split the Grand Canyon. Before February 18th, 1921 it was called the Grand River.

 In 1958 two pilots flew an aircraft for more than two months without landing, refueling by matching speed with a truck driving down a road. Their record has not been broken. 

 In 2014 a 17-year-old girl was charged with manslaughter for encouraging her 18-year-old boyfriend to commit suicide. 

    Cities in Greece struggle to build subway systems because they keep digging up ancient ruins

Studies have found that surgeons, who regularly play video games make 37% fewer errors and perform tasks 27% faster than their peers 

 When McDonald’s set up its first restaurants in Soviet Russia, it had to teach workers how to smile and pretend to be cheerful. 

Between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as PoWs. The pilots’ translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.

Until 1974, banks could refuse to issue a credit card to a woman unless she was married and her husband co-signed for the card. A divorced woman was considered too much of a risk because she “couldn’t keep a marriage under control.” –

                      In season 1 of Game of Thrones, the direwolves were played by a relatively new breed of dogs known as the Northern Inuit Dog. 

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank was subtly turned towards the Soviet Union as it was the only telescope in the world capable of providing early warning of an impending strike.

Van Gogh, in the final two years of his life, averaged about 3 completed paintings per week. All in all, he produced 900 paintings in a 10-year career, making him one of the most prolific painters of all time. 

6. Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked. –

The Earth has about 760 thunderstorms every hour.

                           The crown princess of the Netherlands goes to a public school. 

. In the 1930s, penicillin was so precious that it was re-extracted from the urine of patients who took penicillin to conserve every last bit of it.

                                     The name for a doughnut shape is a toroid. –

                       There are an estimated 500 million dogs on our planet.

                               There is a village in Limerick, Ireland called Hospital. It does not have a hospital. 

A Luftwaffe pilot refused to destroy a damaged B-17.The German pilot escorted the B-17 to the English Channel and then saluted the American pilot and returned home. 40 years later they were reunited and developed a deep friendship that lasted until their deaths.