On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
447
Eminem was offered the lead role in the 2013 sci-fi movie, Elysium. He was interested but he turned it down due to one major condition not being met; Elysium would have to be shot in his hometown, Detroit.
5
A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
18
Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
66
It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
492
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
4