Strange But True: Luxury Cars
By Lucie Winborne
The word "cereal" comes from "Ceres," the Roman goddess of harvest and agriculture.
A UC Berkeley study found that people who drove luxury cars, in particular BMWs and Mercedes, were much more likely to cut off other drivers at intersections than folks driving non-luxury cars.
Popes can't be organ donors, since their bodies belong to the Vatican when they die.
Ranch dressing, America's best-selling salad dressing since 1992, was created by an Alaskan plumber in the 1950s.
It would take 19 minutes to fall to the center of the earth.
Kim Kardashian has a "glam clause" in her will stipulating that if she's ever in a position where she can't get herself ready, is unable to communicate or is unconscious, someone will ensure that her hair, makeup and nails are still perfect.
Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise.
Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world, with an ability to sprout up to 35 inches in a single day.
The world's largest bowling alley is in Japan, with a whopping 116 lanes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Need a natural remedy for a blocked nose? Try an onion. Its sulfur content is thought to draw mucus from the body.
A dog that is a cross between a Chihuahua and a miniature dachshund is known as a chiweenie.
The word "mortgage" comes from a French word meaning "death contract."
According to the Guinness World Records, the world's hottest chili pepper is the Pepper X, rating at an average of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units.
Panda bears have been known to eat for 12 hours straight.