Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them

If you add up all the number on a roulette wheel that is 1through 36 you get 666 the biblical number of fallen man

In ancient Greece tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage Catching it meant she accepted

If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up you can see stars even in the middle of the day

Our fingers get wrinkly in water because wrinkled fingers can give us stronger grip on slippery objects underwate

When a larger or more aggressive animal approaches a cheetah in the wild it will give up its catch to avoid a fight

While it is true that crabs can walk slowly in any direction but when they need to hurry they usually move sideways

Australia s largest petition (792k signatures) presented on December 04 2000 was to protest the rise in beer prices

The fear of remaining unmarried or marrying the wrong person is called anuptaphobia and affects almost 50% of women

A woman named Caroline Tagg earned a doctorate in text messaging - She wrote an 80 000 word thesis on SMS messaging

There is a cruise ship named `The World` It s residents permanently live there as the ship travels around the world

Sea Otters tend to have a favorite rock which they store and carry with them in a pouch usually under their left arm

Humans cannot walk in a straight line without a visual point When blindfolded humans will gradually walk in a circle

Did you know moths are not really attracted to light? Moths fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light

In Ancient Rome people who wished to commit suicide would apply to the Senate and if approved were given free poison