Random Facts Generator

Photons do not experience time. They "hit" something the same instant they are created, regardless of how far they travel, from their own perspective.

The final battle between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was originally set on a lava planet that concealed the Emperor’s lair. The film’s finale would’ve seen the planet destroyed by the second Death Star, which had been conquered by the rebels.

In the Middle Ages, onions were such an important food that people would pay their rent with onions, and even give them as gifts.

The hippocampus of food-storing birds increases in size by up to 30% for a short period each year, so that they could remember where they hid their food.

Ballooning spiders can take off and fly through the air, without wind, by using a single line of web ejected into the air to propel them up the naturally generated electric fields in our atmosphere.

Milk contains magnesium, calcium, vitamin B, and theanine, all of which can help lower anxiety and depression.

The Mongol hordes, in 1223, executed the recently conquered Kievan nobles using the traditional caveat reserved for nobility: without shedding blood. They were buried and suffocated under the Mongol general's victory platform at the victory feast.

The Silence of the Lambs is one of only three films in history to sweep the top five Oscars. Moreover, it was the first film in its genre to win Best Picture.

The Battle of Chuenpi (First Opium War) started with British ships firing warning shots at other British ships. The British Superintendent of Trade in China, Charles Elliot, had ordered a blockade to prevent trade and other British ships attempted to defy that ban.

Some species of bamboo flower only once in decades, and do so simultaneously across the entire planet, regardless of location or climate.