34 Random Rare Facts We Bet You Never Knew – Part 58

Spiders (Gossamer spider) can fly for miles and have been found 2.5 miles above the earth surface.

27. The military of San Marino still has an active crossbow corps which has existed uninterrupted since 1295.

28. Butterscotch is made with butter and brown sugar. Toffee is made with the same ingredients, but cooked longer.

29. The Holy Roman state of Hesse-Kessel became a "mercenary state" renting out its army to other major powers. The state maintained strict neutrality, to the point that it would rent out soldiers to both sides of a conflict and the Hessian soldiers would end up fighting each other.

30. The U.S state of Texas is roughly 10% larger than France and almost twice as large as Germany.

Babe Ruth was one of the first cancer patients to receive radiation and chemotherapy treatment simultaneously.

32. Rio residents rely on an app called "Fogo Cruzado" (Crossfire) to keep track of all gun battles happening in the city any given day in order to avoid them.

33. Operation Looking Glass was a 24-hour a day, continuously airborne command center capable of directing all of the United States' nuclear assets as a backup, should SAC's ground facilities be destroyed. Taking turns, the airplanes stayed continuously staffed for 29 years.

34. Granny Smiths, Fujis, and Pink Ladies (Types of apples) can all be traced back to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the ancestor apples still grow wild there in the Tian Shan mountains.