Studies show English speakers start feeling uncomfortable after a 4-second pause in conversation, while Japanese speakers are at ease with silences lasting up to 8 seconds.

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.

The man with the world’s deepest voice can produce sounds that humans can’t hear. Tim Storms can’t even hear the note himself, as it is eight octaves below the lowest G on a piano—but elephants can.