The hormones in birth control pills are from Mexican yams

   Many people at Disney didn’t think The Lion King will be a success. It is now the highest-grossing hand-drawn film in history.

     In 1948, Canada wasn’t going to send a Hockey team to the Olympics, so the Royal Canadian Air Force sent some servicemen to represent the country, and they won Gold. –

Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth. 

  In 2010, a man lost a $900,000 first prize for a record marlin in North Carolina because one of his crew didn’t have a $5 fishing license. – 

   There are 51 things you aren’t allowed to see on Google Maps.

           George Washington had a massive chain strung across the Hudson River in order to keep to British from sailing upriver. Each link weighed 100+ pounds. –

   Albatrosses date for years before making a commitment. 

   The MI6 double agent Kim Philby informed his wife of his defection via a telegram from Russia which read: “Farewell forever. Love to the children.”

  Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles once flew with the singer to Japan, met the mayor of Osaka and the three sat down together for some green tea 

   In January 1967 The Beatles recorded a 14-minute avant-garde performance that remains unreleased to this day, known as “Carnival of Light” and is considered the holy grail of missing Beatles’ songs. 

  There are at least 10 gems more rare than diamonds and some of them will change color depending on the light you see them in. –

A man ate nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days leading to his attempt at the LA Marathon – He finished with his best time and lower cholesterol than when he started. – S

  Astronauts often lose their fingernails after conducting spacewalks.

   The Scottish national animal is the unicorn because it was deemed the enemy of the lion, the English national animal. 

    Until World War II, tea was still used as a form of currency in Siberia.

   An employee has embezzled almost $17M from a bakery for years, while living the most lavish lifestyle in a tight-knit community, and no one has suspected a thing. –

   Mozart wrote a melody to the Austrian national anthem 19 days before he died.

  The deepest London Underground station, 221ft underground, was never completed and was used to store secret archives during WWII. 

Los Angeles once had the largest electric rail system in the world, until automobile, tire, and oil companies bought and dismantled it, along with mass transit systems in 44 other US cities. The mass transit systems were replaced with freeways and buses, increasing sales of cars, tires, and oil. 

  The IRS had to use a special computer to process Bill Gates’ taxes because “their normal computers can’t deal with the numbers.”  

 The town of Talkeetna in Alaska has had a cat named Stubbs as mayor for 15 years. 

  After hurricane Katrina, 4,500 public school teachers were fired in New Orleans, teacher unions were outlawed, and almost all schools were privatized. –

 In the 1990s, the South African government dismantled all of its nuclear weapons, the first nation in the world which voluntarily gave up all nuclear arms it had developed itself. –

 The upside-down cross, sometimes associated with Satanism, is actually the symbol of St. Peter and his successors, the Catholic Popes. – 

   A man spent 121 days in a room with 40 venomous snakes in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record of 107 days, only to be told that they no longer maintain that record after achieving it.

   Pepsi used a chimpanzee to roll dice in order to determine the grand prize number for their Billion Dollar Sweepstakes

   A man tried to cash a cheque he got in some junk mail for $95,000 and the bank did it.

   Around 18 U.S. military veterans commit suicide every day. –