The last letter added to the English alphabet was ‘J’. It was introduced in 1524 by an Italian grammarian named Gian Giorgio Trissino - before that, ‘i’ was used for both the ‘i’ and ‘j’ sounds.

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

In Thailand, every day of the week has its own colour—Monday is yellow, Tuesday is pink, and Wednesday is green, among others. People often wear the day's colour to bring luck and positive energy.

The top buyer of glitter each year chooses to remain anonymous — and it's rumoured to be the U.S. military.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. This is known as ambidexterity, and approximately 1% of people are naturally ambidextrous.

China owns nearly all of the pandas in the world, even the ones you see at zoos. They rent them out for about $1 million a year.

The French-language World Scrabble Champion doesn’t speak French. New Zealand native Nigel Richards memorized the entire French Scrabble dictionary, which has 386,000 words, in nine weeks to earn his title.