Facts

Some people have more bones in their feet than others.

Some reconstituted tobacco contains the same ingredients found in fart.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

Somebody actually timed a rattlesnake mating session that lasted 22.75 hours.

Sometime around 1050 some English boys looking for a diversion blew up an old cow bladder and began to kick it around. The new game would go on to be called soccer.

Sometime around 1325, the Aztecs were looking for a place to build their capital. A priest had interpreted an omen to mean the site should be where the found an eagle, perched on a cactus, devouring a snake. And that's why they chose what is now Mexico City; they found the eagle eating a snake while resting on a cactus. The scene is depicted on the Mexican flag.

son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called

Sound carries so well in the Arctic that on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.