The tennis brand Wilson began as part of a meatpacking company seeking uses for animal by-products: its first racket strings […]
Every breath you take almost certainly contains molecules from Julius Caesar’s last breath: it held ~10²² molecules, and after 2,000
McDonald’s once successfully engineered bubblegum flavoured broccoli to encourage kids to eat more vegetables.
Steven Spielberg is the most thanked person in Oscar acceptance speeches – mentioned more often than family, friends, or even
One 18-inch pizza contains more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas – about 12.5% more. (Area: 18″ = π·9² = 81π;
The highest reliably recorded IQ belongs to mathematician Terence Tao, who has a confirmed score of 230.
There are more tigers kept as ‘pets’ in captivity – especially in private ownership in the U.S. – than there
The nickname ‘a grand’ for $1,000 dates back to 1915 in The Boston Daily Globe, when a thousand was seen
A 2023 study found that sniffing women’s tears reduced male aggression by 44%, suggesting human tears carry chemical signals that
The first mechanical alarm clock, invented in 1787 by Levi Hutchins, could only ring at 4 am – the time
