1Moon and Earth
If the Moon was brought 21 times closer to the Earth it would break apart and give the Earth rings, due to what's known as the Roche Limit.
2. Behind Lincoln's head on Mount Rushmore, there's a Hall of Records with 16 porcelain plates describing the U.S.'s history. They're kept in a teak box inside a titanium vault.
3. Files kept secret for 60 years indicate British intelligence may have knowingly sent more than 50 of its own agents to almost certain death in occupied Holland during the World War 2 as part of a complicated "double-double agent" game played against the Germans.
4. While on the Earth, we enjoy blue skies and red sunsets the opposite is true for Mars. On the red planet, rust-colored skies will give way to blue sunsets.
5. Tom Hanks never actually played the ping pong in 'Forrest Gump'; the ball was added using CGI. Hanks and his competitor was just swatting air, timing their action to clicks.
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6Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett eats breakfast every day at McDonald's, never spends more than $3.17 and cheaps out to $2.95 /$2.61 on days when the markets are down.
7. During the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev said to Mao Zedong that “Berlin is the testicles of the West. Every time I want to make the West scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”
8. Ciabatta (Italian white bread) has only been around since 1982.
9. One of the mint plant's first known uses in Europe was as a room deodorizer. The herb was strewn across floors to cover smells since stepping on the mint helped to spread its scent through the room.
10. American actor John Travolta adapted L. Ron Hubbard's novel "Battlefield Earth" into a film directed by George Lucas' protégé. Travolta described it as "like Star Wars, only better!", however, the film was a commercial and critical failure and grossed less than half of its budget.
11Ostriches
Ostriches are sexually aroused by humans.
12. Jimmy Carter was the first US president to be born in a hospital.
13. Theodore Roosevelt as a child watched Lincoln’s funeral procession pass by his house. His admiration for Abraham Lincoln was reinforced later in life when he met John Hay, who was Abraham Lincoln’s secretary. Hay gifted a ring that contained Lincoln’s hair to Teddy. Teddy then wore the ring on his inauguration day.
14. Jimmy Page considers 'Stairway to Heaven' a masterpiece. Robert Plant does not share his fondness. Plant has referred to it as a "wedding song" and insists that his favorite Led Zeppelin song is "Kashmir."
15. A woman who was being held at knifepoint by her boyfriend got help from authorities by typing "911hostage help!" in the comments section of a Pizza Hut online order.
16Setagaya family
In December 2000, a family in Setagaya, Japan was killed in their home. After killing the family, the murderer used the family computer, ate ice cream, used the bathroom, and left his pullover behind before leaving. Although the police have the suspect's DNA and a possible description, the case remains unsolved.
17. Over half of the world's lentils are grown in Canada, with about 95% of that amount grown in the province of Saskatchewan alone.
18. English musician Brian Eno wrote the Windows 95 start-up sound on a macintosh.
19. Satirical news site 'The Onion' was almost "...Sued out of existence" in 1996 by Janet Jackson. The article that prompted the lawsuit? "Dying Boy Gets Wish: To Pork Janet Jackson."
20. Slav Squatting is a learned behavior attributed to Russian prison culture to avoid sitting on the cold ground.
21Peter Scott
Peter Scott (who described himself as Master idiot) was a burglar whose victims include Sophia Loren and the Shah of Iran. Disturbed during a heist by a woman, he shouted: "'Everything's all right, madam,' and she went off to bed thinking I was the butler." On other occasions, he would reassuringly shout "It's only me!".
22. It's unknown where the tomb of Archimedes is located today. The last known record of his tomb was in 75 B.C., 137 years after Archimedes had died, when Cicero had found the tomb in a neglected condition and overgrown with bushes, and had the tomb cleaned up.
23. After Arthur Conan Doyle ‘killed’ Sherlock in 'The Final Problem' (1893), readers got upset and relentlessly pressured him to resurrect the character. In 1901, he released 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in a bid to pacify, and finally, in 1903 he resurrected Holmes in 'The Adventure of the Empty House.'
24. Bridesmaids all wear matching colors because of an old tradition that dictated they not only dress like each other but like the bride herself in order to confuse evil spirits or those who wished to harm the bride.
25. Diarrhea was one of the most common causes of death in the American Civil War and that soldiers had an unwritten code of honor against shooting someone who was pooping.
