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Bonsai isn’t the name of the tree. It is actually the name of the process of creating a “miniature tree.”
In Alabama, it is illegal to participate in shooting, hunting, gaming, card playing, or racing on Sundays, with fines ranging from $10 to $100.
Karl Esser, the German engineer who designed one of Saddam Hussein’s main bunkers in Baghdad, was the grandson of Anna Esser, who helped build one of Adolf Hitler’s bunkers in Berlin.
Albania was the only Nazi-occupied country where the Jewish population grew during WWII, as many Muslim Albanians sheltered and protected Jewish refugees.
Without the Moon, Earth’s rotation would be much faster, and a single day could last only about eight hours, since the Moon’s tidal pull gradually slows the planet over time.
The modern Icelandic alphabet does not include the letter C, even though the English word “Icelandic” contains the letter C twice.
Humans have been using yeast to produce alcohol for over 13,000 years, with evidence of beer brewing dating back to 11,000 BC in modern-day Israel.
The last major motion picture to receive a public VHS release was David Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence.”
Selfies are deadlier than shark attacks, causing about 28 deaths annually, with falls from heights being the most common cause.
In 1930, an 11-year-old girl proposed the name “Pluto” for the newly discovered planet, inspired by the Roman god of the underworld.
In 1896, bars in New York often served the same sandwich to different customers all day as a loophole to avoid laws that required them to serve meals with alcohol sales.
Glitter is terrible for the environment; most glitter products are made from plastic and release microplastics into our water sources.
In the Netherlands’ version of “Sesame Street,” instead of Big Bird, they have a blue bird named Pino. He was later established as Big Bird’s cousin.
Victorian fossil hunter Mary Anning sold fossils, bones, and shells by the sea. Folklore ties her to the phrase “She sells seashells by the seashore,” but no evidence supports it.
Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert, was nearly crushed by a train, only to be rescued by Edwin Booth. A year later, Edwin’s brother, John Wilkes Booth, murdered President Abraham Lincoln.
Only three objects in the sky can cast shadows on Earth: the Sun, the Moon, and Venus. The first two are pretty common, but Venusian shadows are very elusive!
The International Space Station orbits Earth at about 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour), circling the planet roughly every 90 minutes.
The group of spikes at the end of stegosaurid tails is called the “thagomizer.” They had no distinct name until the term was coined in 1982 by a cartoonist.
Star Wars was re-released in the Navajo language in 2013, making it the first motion picture to be translated into a Native American language.
