Cleopatra had a special lipstick made for her, consisting of a crushed mixture of ants and deep red carmine beetles.
 




 

 

We’re one to two centimeters taller in the morning than at night.

Until 2016, the “Happy Birthday” song was not for public use. Meaning, prior to 2016, the song was copyrighted and you had to pay a license to use it.

There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮

Scientists have found evidence of take-out restaurants in the remains of Pompeii.

You can’t lick your elbow

You can’t tickle yourself.

A cluster of bananas is called a “hand”. Along that theme, a single banana is called a “finger”.

Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice had a pet snake named Emily Spinach. She liked to carry it around the White House in her purse and take it out at unexpected moments.

Astronauts can grow up to two inches taller while they’re in space.

A neutron walks into a bar.  The bartender says, "For you, no charge."
 

Some blood vessels in a blue whale are actually big enough for humans to swim through.

A wildlife technician, Richard Thomas, took the famous tongue twister, “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood” and calculated a rough estimate of what the answer would actually be. It came out to be around 700 pounds.

In 1916, Adeline and Augusta Van Buren became the first women to travel across the country on two solo motorcycles. They made it despite frequently being arrested for wearing pants.

Red Solo cups are a common souvenir to bring back from the United States. The novelty comes from the cups being used in many party scenes in movies.