It is common for tap water in Iceland to smell like eggs, even when it is still perfectly safe to drink. –

   There’s a type of honey called “mad honey,” which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make dangerous vertical climbs to harvest it since it sells for $60-80 a pound. 

   New Jersey is home to more scientists per square mile than anywhere else in the world. 

           Israel is the only country in the world with a mandatory military service requirement for women. They comprise 51% of all officers. 

  The Bureau of Indian Affairs still sends bolts of cloth every year to New York Indian tribes as part of the debt owed from the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794. –

   Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was among the first celebrities from the European Renaissance era who supported vegetarianism. 

Teddy Roosevelt once held the World Record for most hands shaken in one day, with 8510 at a White House Reception.

  The average lifetime cost of raising a dog is $23,410. –

   A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint. –

49% of Americans start their day with cereal. 3. The average millionaire goes bankrupt at least 3.5 times. 4. Your subconscious mind is 30,000 times more powerful than your conscious mind. 5. Sleeping allows your brain’s synapses to be optimized and prevents your brain from becoming too large.

 Ava Gardner once swam naked in a pool belonging to Ernest Hemingway. He ordered that the water never be changed. 

       Hurricanes in Australia were originally named after local politicians a weather man didn’t like 

The Grand Canyon has an attraction called Skywalk which is a transparent horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge that extends past the lip of the canyon, allowing you to see a 500-800ft vertical drop directly below your feet.

   Some scientists believe that around 4 billion years ago Neptune and Uranus may have switched their places in the solar system. 

    A honeybee has the same amount of hair as a squirrel that is around 3 million. Whereas the human head, as a comparison, has just around 100,000 hair. 

  Maryland holds the nations highest possible litter fine of up to $30,000 and 5 years in jail.

 Lord Timothy Dexter, a late 1700s American businessman, faked his own death. He then attended his own funeral and not seeing his wife cry, revealed himself and caned her for not grieving hard enough.

  In 1600s pineapples used to be valued at $5000, rarely eaten and was used as a status symbol at parties.

     The hand print of Nelson Mandela actually resembles the African continent. –

  Bald Eagles are so named because “balde” is an Old English word meaning “white.” 

   Rwanda is the first country to ban plastic bags.

   At the 1956 Olympics, an Australian student successfully impersonated an Olympic torchbearer, handing the mayor of Sydney a painted chair leg topped with a pair of burning underwear in front of a crowd of thousands. – 

  Although 95% of mail is now sorted by computers, the U.S. Postal Service still employs clerks to decipher addresses that are too messy for the computers to understand. These clerks are expected to process 1,000 letters an hour, and upwards of 20% of them quit within the first 5 weeks. 

 When chess player Bobby Fischer beat soviet grandmaster Taimanov, Taimanov was thrown off the USSR team, forbidden to travel, banned from writing articles, and deprived of his monthly stipend. It virtually ended his career. – 

   After the American Revolution from the British, in 1777, Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States of America. – 

    A hospital doorkeeper got lost, possibly looking for liquor, in the Paris Catacombs in 1793 and his body was found 11 years later. 

  In 2010, when Tokyo officials went to congratulate the oldest man in the city on his 111th birthday, they instead found his skeletal remains on his bed. He had been dead for 30 years and the family was taking in the pension money he was still receiving

   Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe

  In 2015, a group of inmates from a maximum security prison in New York beat the Harvard debate team in a debate competition 

 In 1986, a Soviet pilot made a bet with his co-pilot that he could land the airplane blind. He curtained all cockpit windows and crashed the plane into the landing strip killing 70 out of 87 passengers. –