In 2012, Swedish artist Fredrik Saker created a super-detailed self portrait and successfully submitted it as his driver’s license picture.
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The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
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To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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In 1974, prankster Porky Bickar was so into April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire - fooling the local populace and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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