You are two times more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark.
On the evening when Michael Jordan made 69 points in one game, his teammate Stacey King said: "I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined to score 70 points”.
Cleopatra's Needle, which is now located at Central Park in New York was once part of a sundial.
Thanks to blinking, an awake man will spend 30 minutes with his eyes closed.
Lions are the only cats that do not purr.
Kim Peek (54), the autistic genius who inspired the creation of a film "Rain Man", knew by heart the contents of 12.000 books. That are almost all the books he had read from the age of four.
