Strange But True: There's alcohol in space!
By Lucie Winborne
Most NASCAR teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air. This allows the tire to have a much more consistent rate of expansion and contraction to heat and cold.
North Koreans must have one of 28 state-approved haircuts.
There's alcohol in space! In 2006, astronomers discovered a cloud of alcohol in part of the Milky Way where stars are forming from gas and dust.
In Albania, some women make an oath to become “sworn virgins” in order to live life as a man, with the rights and privileges of a man. For the rest of their lives, they are never again addressed as female.
Over 2,500 left-handed people a year are killed by using equipment made for right-handed people. The deadliest item? The right-handed power saw.
A traffic jam in Beijing lasted more than nine days.
If you yelled for eight years, seven months and six days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
A man with severe OCD and a phobia of germs attempted to commit suicide with a gun to his head. Instead of killing him, the bullet eliminated his mental illness without any other damage.
In 2003, there were 86 days of below-freezing weather in Hell, Michigan.
Until 2018, there were only two English words ending in "gry" -- hungry and angry. Then the Oxford English Dictionary added a third -- "hangry" (an irritable state induced by lack of food).
A decibel is not its own unit, but actually 1/10th of the seldom used "Bel," a unit named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell for his contribution to acoustics.
Backpfeifengesicht" is a German term for a face that badly needs a punch.