McDonald’s once created bubble-gum-flavored broccoli. Not surprisingly, it didn’t go over very well with taste-testers.
You have a greater chance of dying on your birthday than on any other day of the year. Interestingly, the younger you are, the greater the chances. Celebrate in moderation, please!
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. Dolphins need air after 10 minutes, but a swimming sloth can hold its breath for up to 40 minutes!
A woman was elected to Congress before women’s suffrage. Montana’s Jeannette Rankin was sworn in as the first female member of Congress in 1917, three years before women were given the vote in 1920.
The CIA headquarters in Langley has a top secret coffee shop. It is indeed called Starbucks, but the baristas have to pass an extensive background check, and can’t write customers’ names on the cups. The store’s name on the receipt isn’t even “Starbucks,” but “Store Number 1.”
The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes. That would be the Anglo-Zanzibar War in 1896, in which the British and the Sultan Khalid bin Barghash fought over the latter’s accession to the throne.
The longest word in the English language has 189, 819 letters. It’s the name of a protein that would take about 3.5 hours to say out loud!