Facts

Men are more attracted to women who smile, but the same can’t be said for women when men smile.

Pass the peas, please: If you accidentally inhale a pea whole, there’s a chance that it will sprout inside of your lung...

"Between the earth and the moon you could fit, side by side, all the other planets in our solar system!"

Sleeping during work is normal and acceptable in Japan. If in other countries, that would get you fired, in Japan, it is seen as a good sign that shows dedication to the work and that the person worked themselves to exhaustion.

Goldfish have been known to participate in orgies.

Great minds… Stephen Hawking died on the anniversary of Albert Einstein’s birthday.

Like Proximo (although he wasn’t real), gladiators were gifted a wooden sword called a “rudis” which symbolized their freedom from the gladiator life, if they so chose.

Dryococelus australis, otherwise known as the ‘Tree Lobster’ is an insect that can only be found on a small island off the coast of Australia.

Humans shed somewhere around 600,000 skin particles every hour. The dust that’s collecting on your shelves, floors, counter tops… a lot of that is ‘shed human skin.’

"During 1774 Frederick the Great of Prussia had a free potato policy to help the people through the famine. A lot of people initially rejected the potatoes and so he had guards feign patrol of the potato fields so they looked more valuable and people would steal them in the night. Even though they were totally free."

"While filming Guardians of the Galaxy, they had to do several takes of some scenes because Chris Pratt kept making the pew pew sounds when he fired his raygun."

Baa baa bye: In 1939, 835 sheep in Utah were killed by a single lightning strike.

"Caterpillars turn completely into goo in their cocoon, and then become a butterfly."