Texas no longer offers a special “last meal” to condemned inmates. Instead, the inmate is offered the same meal served to the rest of the unit. 

  The actor and actress, who play Snow White and Prince Charming in ABC’s Once Upon A Time, met on set, fell in love, and are now married in real life. 

  On December 10, 1987, a squirrel chewed through power lines and shut down the Nasdaq for 82 minutes, preventing the trading of approximately 20 million shares. –

Movie theaters have been banned in Saudi Arabia since the 1980s. 

   George Washington almost joined the Royal Navy (British Navy) but his mom took him out of it. 

  Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. About 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice. 

   In 1993, a Scotsman was asked to confirm to the court that he was the person summoned. He replied “aye”, but was then told he had to answer yes or no. He replied “aye” again and was imprisoned for 90 minutes for contempt of court. On his release he said “I genuinely thought I was answering him”

  The Iranian crown jewels are considered so valuable that they are still used as a reserve to back Iranian currency (and have been used this way by several successive governments)

  At the outset of World War 1, Tsar Nicholas II, King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm II were first cousins and grandchildren of Queen Victoria. 

   The Pony Express only lasted from April 3, 1860 to October 1861, before the telegraph made it obsolete. 

   In 2010, China had a traffic jam that lasted 12 days and spanned 62 miles –

  Bad acoustics in school classrooms may cause learning problems for students, as well as higher rates of sore throats and stress for teachers. 

   The first president of Poland, Gabriel Narutowicz, was assassinated five days after taking office, amidst a right-wing propaganda campaign accusing him of being “an atheist, a Freemason, and a Jew”

 Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to fly in an airplane and afterward told the pilot, “that was the bulliest experience I ever had. I envy your professional conquest of space.”

  85% of fat people who meet and marry their spouse while they are fat and later have Bariatric surgeries, divorce their spouse within 2 years of the surgery. –

  When the Pope dies, it is a tradition to confirm the death ceremonially by gently tapping the pope’s head thrice with a silver hammer, calling his birth name each time. 

  Wisconsin has so many lakes (15,074) that most of them haven’t been named. –

  A massive clock, hundreds of feet tall, is currently being constructed inside a mountain in East Texas. It’s designed to withstand the test of time and expected to tick uninterrupted for over 10,000 years.

  The farthest distance from Earth an astronaut has traveled was 401,056 km (249,205 mi), when Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise went around the Moon during the Apollo 13 emergency

      The arteries in the heart of a blue whale is large enough for an average human being to pass through

   Arya is the fastest rising baby name given to girls in USA, most likely due to Game of Thrones 

   Nine American crewmen survived when their war plane crashed during World War 2. Eight of them were captured by the Japanese and eaten. Only one survived because he was picked up by a passing submarine. That survivor is George H.W. Bush.

  There are approximately 3,000 tigers left in the wild. There are an estimated 5,000 tigers being kept as pets in the U.S. alone.

  Mahatma Gandhi led a nonviolent protest known as the Dandi Salt March to protest a salt tax. Gandhi and his followers hiked to the Arabian Sea where they boiled sea water to make their own salt. – 

    Millions of disposable chopsticks used in China are made in the USA. 

   Iceland has such a small population that they have an anti-incest app so you don’t end up hooking up with a family member on a night out. – 

 Bulgaria has a hotel with an ancient Roman gladiator arena in the lobby. The arena was found during construction, so they incorporated it into the hotel

   While Mother’s Day is the busiest for phone calls, Father’s Day is the busiest for collect calls (a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for).

On the night Ted Bundy was executed, an estimated 2,000 celebrants sang, danced, and set off fireworks in a pasture across the street from the prison, then cheered loudly as the white hearse carrying his body left the facilit

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