85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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30 years ago, you could buy a lifetime, unlimited first-class travel pass with American Airlines for $250,000.
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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.
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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