
In 2014, Dubai broke the world record for largest fireworks display on New Year's Eve. Over 500,000 fireworks were set off.
The word Sunday is derived from Old English. It translate to "sun's day."

99% of Atlantic salmon is farmed but over 80% Pacific salmon is wild-caught.

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.

Baby whales grow at an average rate of 10lbs per hour!

For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.

The average man will spend 5 months of his life shaving.

Bees can recognize individual human faces.

Einstein’s brain went missing when he died in 1955 and was lost for 23 years. The doctor who worked on his autopsy stole it and kept in a hidden cider box.

Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.

Naval engineer Richard T. James invented the Slinky when he was working with tension springs and accidentally dropped one.

Amerigo Vespucci, for whom many historians believe America was named, was an Italian merchant.