The Sun will never set on the present-day British Empire, due to the smallest and most isolated of the 14 territories, the Pitcairn Islands, which only has a population of a few dozen people. Until there is an eclipse there, Britain remains the empire on which the Sun never sets

A few hundred years back, women in Turkey could legally divorce their husbands if he didn’t provide them with enough coffee. 

 Bill Haast, the “Snake Man,” was bitten by poisonous snakes at least 173 times. He injected himself with snake venom every day for a span of 60 years. He saved countless lives by donating his antibody-rich blood. He lived to be 100. 

There’s only one Supermax prison in the U.S., it’s in Colorado and has 420 inmates. Former warden says death is better than life in a Supermax, complete isolation leads to hallucinations for inmates. It implements the highest security standards and no one has ever escaped. 

 Jake Perry has been the owner of two consecutive holders of the record for oldest domestic cat ever. Creme Puff lived to 38 years old, the equivalent of 165 human years. 1/3 of Perry’s cats have lived past 30. –

 brain disease that devastated communities in Papua New Guinea spread because people ate their dead family members’ brains in ritual cannibalism. People who didn’t die from the disease have a genetic mutation that blocks it. 

   Pretty Boy” Floyd, one of America’s most notorious bank robbers, on bank heists, he was known for destroying mortgage papers, consequently freeing hundreds of people from property debt. 

    Thailand, as part of their family planning program, has police officers who pass out condoms in a campaign called “Cops and Rubbers”. 

 The only U.S. President that is confirmed to have had a tattoo is Teddy Roosevelt. 

   Smoke Detectors mostly chirp in the dead of night because the chemical reaction in batteries slows down when the air get’s colder thus tripping the detectors low battery detector.

  There is a theme park in China where professionally trained magicians and acrobats perform every single day, even when temperatures drop to below freezing and no one shows up to watch. 

     A pair of tortoises has been further into space than any human being. They went around the Moon in Zond 5, before returning to Earth. Both tortoises survived. –

   It is such a stigma to adopt children in South Korea that women are recommended to wear a maternity pillow to appear pregnant until the adoption is finalized. –

   Clint Eastwood “wore the same poncho, without ever having washed it, in all three of his ‘Man with No Name’ Westerns”

   If a male lion is neutered its mane will fall out. 

  In 2012, Knight Capital Group, an American global trading company went bankrupt after a software engineer forgot to set a single flag on a server, resulting in a loss of $460 million in 45 minutes.

                There are Native American pyramids underwater in Rock Lake, Wisconsin. –

. In 1568, the entire population of the Netherlands was condemned to death as heretics after converting from Catholicism to Protestantism. 

  Polish author Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec escaped a German work camp in 1943 after killing his guard with a shovel when taken to dig his own grave. 

  In 1998, during a soccer match in Congo, a lightning bolt struck the pitch and killed all 11 members of one team. The other team was left unscathed. 

Great White Sharks congregate in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in an area known as the White Shark Café. The area has very little food for the animals and researchers describe it as the shark equivalent of a desert. The reasons for this behavior have not yet been identified.

  There is over 400,000 pounds of man-made trash and debris on the moon, including 96 bags of urine, feces, and vomit. –

  Scales on the heads of crocodiles are not really scales, rather they are cracks in the skin.

 Every year approximately 500 meteorites hit the Earth

There are secret poems written on Boston’s sidewalks that are only visible when it rains.

. The likelihood of getting bitten by a human in New York is higher than the likelihood of getting bitten by a shark in the sea. 

                 A bartender made an award-winning cocktail that tastes like money

1.  In 2011, two men paraglided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min, thereby avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent. – Source

 John Newton, most famous for writing “Amazing Grace,” spent the early part of his life as a sailor, then captain, on several slaving ships before converting to a life of evangelical Christianity. Late in life he became an abolitionist, expressing regret that it had taken him so long to do so.