First western product sold in the Soviet Union was "Pepsi Cola".
Isaac Newton was kicked out of school. He was expelled as a teenager at the request of his mother, who wanted him to become a farmer.
Contrary to popular belief, donkeys belong to one of the smartest ungulates. They, for example, use their chin hair to test whether there is current going through a wire fence and if they have to walk thru dangerous grounds, they will only start if their master walks through first.
Every 40 minutes approximately 40 million skin cells die on a man. If we gather them all in one place we could fill up a four-story building.
On the evening when Michael Jordan made 69 points in one game, his teammate Stacey King said: "I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined to score 70 points”.
Asian elephants have the longest gestation period of all mammals, it lasts 608 days.
