It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
40
One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
427
The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
34
Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
4
During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
19
There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
34
It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
68