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.

Japanese railway platforms saw an 84% drop in suicides after installing blue lights, which studies show have a calming effect that reduces impulsive actions.

The phrase 'paint the town red' likely comes from an 1837 incident when the Marquis of Waterford and his friends went on a drunken spree, vandalizing and painting parts of the town of Melton Mowbray red.

Food tastes different on a plane than on the ground. This is because low air pressure and humidity at high altitudes dull our senses of taste and smell.

A man named Joel Burger married a woman named Ashley King in 2015. Burger King paid for their wedding.

Hawaiian pizza didn’t come from Hawaii - it was actually invented in Canada by a Greek chef inspired by Chinese flavours.

In Germany, Austria, Mexico, and the Netherlands, prison escape isn’t a crime - lawmakers recognize the instinct for freedom, so there’s no extra penalty unless other crimes are committed along the way.