Starfish don’t have bodies. Along with other echinoderms (think sea urchins and sand dollars), their entire bodies are technically classed as heads.

This is quite a fun fact I came across today

The voice actors who played Mickey and Minnie Mouse (Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor) actually got married in real life in 1991.

The video game Fallout 4 is set in a post-apocalyptic world where you get rewarded for returning library books.

NASA Is Watching a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field

Fun fact: If you search "comic sans" in google all text will be in comic sans font.

Typing "awesome" while viewing any video will make the video timeline flash in a rainbow spectrum color. Typing said phrase again stops it.

In 1896, the Anglo-Zanzibar War between the British Empire and the Sultanate of Zanzibar holds the record for the shortest war in history, lasting only 38 minutes! The British emerged victorious in record time.

A few years ago, come to find out, a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

The longest word in the English language, according to most dictionaries, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters). This word refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica dust. While it's the longest dictionary word, the chemical name for the protein titin is even longer (189,819 letters).

The CIA has to train Americans not to lean on things while standing.  Apparently this is an easy way to spot them in other countries and can be a problem for undercover work.  I do this for sure if there is something convenient nearby, like resting your elbow on the trunk of a car, I'd feel dizzy if I didn't after a long conversation.

 

It would take 19 minutes to fall to the centre of the Earth. Scientists have worked this out, they haven't tried it in real life.

113 years ago on this day, the ships that had gone out to the location of the Titanic's sinking were there to photograph the recovery process of any bodies they found. Those they were able to identify they brought back to be claimed by families. Those unidentifiable (Mostly 3rd class passengers) were given a sea burial. 

Octopuses have three hearts, and their blood is blue. 

Your birthday is an occasion to celebrate another year alive on Earth. But it turns out that you’re also 13.8 percent more likely to die on your birthday.

You know these peelers with the flexible razors to deskin vegetables? I only recently found out they are designed to peel upwards and downwards without having to remove them from the surface.

The Yakuza have been sending debtors to work in the extremely hazardous cleanup at Fukushima to pay off their gambling/drug debts. Most didn’t even have the proper training to do the job right.

Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. The spice contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.