Apparently, English bulldogs are on the edge of extinction. That’s what happens when people spend generations of inbreeding the bulldog breed deriving them from 36 individuals.

Birds and dolphins can set half of their brains awake, while the other half asleep. In that way, they could still monitor their surroundings while asleep, potentially avoiding danger.

Europeans didn’t know where birds migrate during winter. They only knew that they were migrating in Africa when a German hunter shot down a stork with an African spear impaled in its neck in 122.

Fun fact: Our galaxy, The Milky Way, and its neighbor galaxy, Andromeda once collided. The collision gave birth to another elliptical galaxy now called the Milkdromeda galaxy.

Instead of cooling themselves with the surrounding water temperature, Tuna is one of the three species of fish that does the opposite. They maintain a higher body temperature by intertwining the veins and arteries in their body.

Mariah Carey was able to close/open her garage door by playing one of her tracks. That high pitch in that particular track did the trick.

You may notice that your tongue hurts after eating lots of pineapples. That’s because they bite you back with the enzyme bromelain. It also depends on your tongue’s sensitivity.

The red-velvet ant was also known as the “cow killer” because of its extremely painful sting. Although, they’re technically a parasitic wasp, not an ant, and that’s one more reason to stay clear of them.

Prehistoric Europeans learned how to make sippy cups out of clay. Furthermore, the evidence says that they made it “cute” by modeling them into animals. They have been dug out from the graves of infants.

In North Korea, anyone who is caught deforesting illegally is immediately sentenced to death. Although it helps a lot with lessening the risk of global warming, it’s a pretty inhumane punishment, perhaps.

When you watch a new series, you’re probably wondering why the first episode’s title is Pilot. Well, it’s not a title, and a pilot episode is meant to set a tone and pace for viewers to know what the series is all about.

Lincoln’s Bedroom in the White House is not Lincoln’s bedroom. It’s just his office that he fashioned into one.

A lot of us are led to believe that once a ship passes through the Bermuda Triangle, it will never come back out. However, it’s nothing of the sort. Yes, the area’s dangerous, but because the traffic is higher there.

Aside from Antarctica, the other areas that don’t have ants are Greenland and Iceland. Iceland also boasts that they don’t have mosquitoes there too.

We all know the fact that stingrays hunt with their whip-like tail. However, there are other ways they could hunt for food, and that’s by using their TEETH. Yes, and they use it to crush and grind seashells and even crab shells.

There’s a terrifying series of murders in 1982 that’s called the Tylenol murders. Apparently, victims ingested a Tylenol capsule that’s unknowingly laced with cyanide. The number of victims rose until it was settled that medications like Tylenol should have foil seals and only be sold over the counter.

Male bees die after mating with the queen. If all the male bees are gone, the bee population isn’t doomed just yet. After all, queen bees have a special organ that stores sperm, called the spermatheca, for the rest of their lives, and they could control the fertilization of the eggs as well.

Apparently, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, the director, didn’t secure the copyrights of the film, thus almost deleting the film from history. Luckily, when it made its way to the US, it was saved because Bram Stoker didn’t secure copyrights for Dracula in the states.

In Paris, a bus driver kicked all of his passengers out after refusing to make room for a passenger in a wheelchair. He was hailed a hero afterward.

During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the cameraman accidentally yanked a cable that caused an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. While the people panicked, they then heard him laughing. Hawking really pulled a fast one on them.

Apparently, the term “crimes against humanity” was first made to describe the gruesome acts of Leopold the 2nd and his mercenaries. He had the mercenaries show him a severed human arm for proof.

When the HMS Audacious sank in 1914, claiming the lives of its passengers, they counted one fatality that wasn’t on that ship. It was on another ship 800 miles away when a sailor was hit by a flying chunk of a metal piece from the exploded HMS Audacious.

This is not the only century where people had sci-fi conventions. Apparently, the first sci-fi convention was held over a hundred years ago, and attendees wore costumes and such. Although it was deemed a disastrous financial failure.

We know that some reptiles could regrow body parts, most commonly the tail. However, salamanders could regrow even their limbs, as well as parts of their eyes.

When you’re a basic in computer programming, they hit you with a “Hello World” practice code. In the world of computer graphics, “Hello World” is equivalent to creating your first 3D teapot model, the Teapotahedron.

Baseball pitcher Ray Caldwell had the worst luck of being struck by lightning during a game. However, he was then revived and then pitched to win the game.

The London Skyscraper once gave off a focused, intense beam from the reflected sunlight every two hours of a day. You can even fry an egg if you’re planning to have one for lunch.

If you’re looking to play retro games today, there was one time when people could download them wirelessly. They just plug in their radio, tune in to Hobbyscoop, where they transmit these 80s game’s data.

A lot of mountain climbers challenged themselves to climb Mount Everest. In 2019, it was found out that climbers left an estimated 8,000 kilograms of poop only at a single camp.

South American doctors have discovered a way to help people with severe burns. It involves the use of Tilapia’s scales and is applied as a bandage to the burn wounds.

Sea slugs have the ability to detach their own heads from their body to regrow a new one. The decapitated head then crawls around before it starts to regrow a new body.

No one knows where it came from, but the Encephalitis lethargica epidemic was so deadly that it killed half a million people, leaving them in statue-like condition. It suddenly disappeared without a trace.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, birds like ducks and penguins were once called “arse-feet.” It was because their legs were positioned so far back on their bodies. Maybe that’s why some ducks chase people.

Yubari King Melons were once auctioned off in Japan for almost $30,000. These melons are so sweet and expensive that people only give them off as luxurious gifts.

Apparently, geckos can lose their tails despite not it being grabbed by their predators. It’s called, “true caudal autotomy.” Stress is one big factor in making it possible.