Strange But True: Olympic motor boating
By Lucie Winborne
According to facial recognition software, LEOnardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry.
The low air pressure of a twister can literally pull a person's eardrum outward.
In 1900, motor boating was included in the Olympic Games. Only a few races were held, however, and they were eventually discontinued due to inconsistent weather and mechanical failures.
One acre of peanuts can make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
The first Europeans to discover the Great Lakes named them the "Sweetwater Seas" and believed that China bordered their shores.
The skin of a jellyfish is so thin that the animal can breathe through it.
Cellist Daniel Crawford composed a musical piece for the cello in which each note represents a year on NASA's record of global average temperature, from 1880-2012.
Between 1930 and 1935, nearly 750,000 American farms were lost through bankruptcy or sheriff sales.
A man once sued Anheuser-Busch with the claim that the company's ads misrepresented his potential attractiveness to the opposite sex, if he would just drink their beer.
The Persian epic "Explanation of Chatrang and the Invention of Nard" tells the story of chess being introduced to the royal court by an envoy from India.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, many British and American newspapers featured elegies for dead pets. Among them, one scholar found six for monkeys, 12 for canaries, 17 for cats and 53 for dogs.
Egyptians used vast amounts of linen to mummify a body -- in fact, the fabric on one mummy from the 11th dynasty measured 9,095 feet, enough to cover three tennis courts.
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