Studies show that eating spicy food can help you lose weight. Participants who ate spicier meals consumed up to 25% fewer calories, ate more slowly, and still felt just as full and satisfied.

Tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplants all naturally contain nicotine.

In Major League Baseball, pitches are so fast that the eye can't track the ball. However, the brain relies on specialized cells to calculate its trajectory, allowing the batter to make contact.

Peeing appears to be contagious among chimpanzees, hinting at deep evolutionary roots for the social behaviour observed in humans urinating together.

Robbie Williams' 2006 album Rudebox underperformed so badly that one million unsold copies were sold to a Chinese company to be recycled into road paving material.

In the US, there is a 1 in 93 chance of dying in a motor vehicle crash during your lifetime. Not wearing a seatbelt is attributed to 50% of these fatalities.

South Korea's birth rate is so low that the government is offering couples up to 51 million won (approximately $38,600) in incentives to date, marry, and start a family.