Strange But True: Russian soft drinks
By Lucie Winborne
In 2015, Colin Furze invented a creative alarm that would literally throw its user out of bed.
A study in which researchers scanned actors' brains while they answered questions revealed that their brain activity differed depending on whether they spoke as themselves or as the character they were portraying.
Female ferrets will die if they go as long as a year without mating, due to elevated estrogen levels.
Prior to 2011, any drink in Russia with less than 10% alcohol content was legally classified as a soft drink.
On Aug. 20, 2013, a group of students from Delaware built the tallest Lego tower in the world, standing at 112 feet tall and consisting of more than 500,000 pieces.
Not that we think you're likely to drop an ant from the Empire State Building, but if you do, you should know ahead of time that it will walk away unharmed. Due to its proportions and tough exoskeleton, its terminal velocity won't be enough to kill or hurt it on impact.
If the sun explodes, we won't know it until just over eight minutes afterward.
Pretty much everyone finds TV ads annoying, but at least they don't normally last too long -- with the exception of a commercial for Old Spice that aired in Brazil in 2018 and ran a staggering 14 hours, earning it a Guinness World Record for the longest TV ad ever.
In the early 1900s, tug of war, pigeon shooting and pistol dueling were Olympic sports.
Studies suggest that "Huh?" is the closest thing humans have to a universal word. This expression is understood and used in almost every language.