According to an assistant professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, wearing red increases your chances in things like dating and hitchhiking.
12
Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
11
There is a fake village with fake shops and restaurants that is actually a care home for elderly dementia sufferers in the Netherlands.
7
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
1k
The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
63
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
129
All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
38
It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
13