The prototype for the first-ever pair of Nike running shoes was made using a waffle iron.

In the 17th century, pineapples were so rare that they were seen as a status symbol. They cost $8,000 in today's money, and people would even rent them for parties.

Static shocks often exceed 20,000 volts - over 100 times the voltage of a typical power outlet. They don’t harm you as they last only millionths of a second.

If you removed all the empty space from the atoms in every human, the entire population of Earth could fit into the volume of a sugar cube.

New Zealand leads the world in per capita ice cream consumption, with each person consuming an average of 28.4 liters (7.5 gallons) annually. The United States and Australia follow in second and third place, respectively.

For the 36 years leading up to 1916, Ireland had its own time zone, known as Dublin Mean Time (DMT), which was 25 minutes and 21 seconds behind England's time zone.

Wasps are the unsung heroes of global agriculture. They help protect $417 billion worth of crops from pests each year, which is more than the $250 billion annual value of insect pollination.