31 Appealing Random Facts That’ll Make Your Day | Random List #237

In 1915, a 23-year-old African-American woman named Alice Ball revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, by creating a soluble and injectable treatment from chaulmoogra oil.

27. Ryan Reynolds was on a Push Pop commercial in the '90s.

28. Starbuck's door handles are more germ-laden than NYC subway poles.

29. The Manchineel trees in Florida are so deadly that even standing under it during a rain is enough to cause blistering of the skin by raindrops carrying its sap. Additionally, if one of these deadly trees is burnt, the resulting smoke can cause blindness.

30. Yogurt was invented in 5000 B.C. and the combination of yogurt and honey was called "the food of the Gods."

The longest echo in a man-made structure is produced in an abandoned oil depot in Scotland, the Inchindown Oil Tanks. The echo lasts for 112 seconds.